Rainfall runoff and other modelling for ungauged catchments

The opportunities for improved flood warnings and new operational guidelines for rainfall modelling at ungauged locations.

• From: Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Research and Development Programme and Environment Agency
• Published: 17 February 2021

• Category: Managing flood incidents
• Topics: Communicating risk, Flood forecasting, Flood risk assessment, Flood warning
• Project status: Completed
• Project code: SC030227
• Date of completion: 31 March 2006

Documents

Rainfall runoff and other modelling for ungauged catchments - summary (247KB) PDF

Dŵr glaw ffo a modelu arall ar gyfer lleoliadau anfesuredig buddisel - Welsh summary (527KB) PDF

Rainfall-runoff and other modelling for ungauged/low-benefit locations - operational guidance (1.2MB) PDF

Rainfall-runoff and other modelling for ungauged/low-benefit locations - technical report (9.6 MB) PDF

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Details

This report provides an overview of approaches for rainfall modelling at ungauged locations or those with low benefit from flood warning. This is to evidence whether an improved flood watch service could be provided. The focus is on rainfall-runoff but other options are discussed, such as hydrological channel flow routing models and hydrodynamic river models.

This project considers opportunities for improved flood warnings for ungauged locations relating to advances in monitoring and uncertain triggers for warnings. It produces new operational guidelines for modelling at ungauged locations.

This project ran from 2004 to 2006.

Published 17 February 2021