Iwokrama 2009
Commonwealth Secretariat funded consultancy: The Climate and Hydrology of the Iwokrama International centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development. Collation and assessment of climate (and hydrology) data availability and quality for Guyana and the surrounding regions. Also analysis of the data in order to place Iwokrama's climate into a regional and global context and for use as a baseline for further studies. [Commonwealth Newsletter]
AQUATERRA 2008 - 2009
EC project: Global Change and Ecosystems Integrated Project. Generation of climate change scenarios for Gallego catchment (Spain) using a simple bias-correction method to downscale the daily precipitation and temperature fields of a selection of regional climate models from the grid-cell to point scale.
SAM 2008 - 2009
DTI project: System Based Analysis and Management of Urban Flood Risk. Investigating the use of radar data for validating and supporting a spatial and temporal rainfall model for use in Integrated Urban Drainage Design and Management.
North East Climate Change Adaptation 2007 - 2008
Royal Haskoning Consultancy: Generation of climate change scenarios (3 future time-slices and 4 scenarios) for 10 locations in NE England for climate change impact studies using the EA weather generator (EARWIG) for daily rainfall time-series and a Neyman-Scott Rectangular Pulses model (Rainsim) for hourly rainfall time-series. Fitted Generalised Extreme Value distributions to annual maxima using L-moments, and used Gumbel plots to look at extreme events. [report] The study received a "Special Award for Sustainability" at the Institution of Civil Engineer's (North East Region) Robert Stephenson Awards Ceremony on 30th April 2009.
EPIC-FORCE 2007 - 2008
EC project: Evidence-based policy for integrated control of forested river catchments in extreme rainfall and snowmelt. Investigating the effects of forest management scenarios on river basin response (water flow, soil erosion and landsliding) in an Andean catchment in Ecuador using the SHETRAN model (a physically based, spatially distributed, integrated surface/subsurface system for modelling water flow and sediment transport in river catchments, shallow landslides and debris flows).
- MEDIGRID 2004-2006
EC project: Mediterranean Grid of Multi-Risk Data and Models. Integrating hazard assessment models (e.g. forest fires, flash floods and soil erosion) into a web-based distributed risk-assessment service using shared disaster-related data resources. [Other Information] [Journal article in press] [poster]
LESSLOSS 2004-2006
EC project: European Integrated Project on Risk Mitigation for Earthquakes and Landslides. Simulating the occurrence of shallow landslides and debris flows as a function of rainfall return period. [Abstract] [poster]
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SUSMAQ 2005
DFID project: Sustainable Management of the West Bank and Gaza Aquifers. Investigating the impact of land-use change and climate change on the West Bank using the PRECIS Regional Climate Model. [Newcastle University web-page] [reports available from: HWE Palestine]
MEDACTION 2002-2004
EC project: Policies for Land Use to Combat Desertification. Development and application of a Decision Support System using land management scenarios for policy formulation for the Alentejo (Portugal) and Agri (Italy) catchment areas. [Detailed Information] [abstract] [Poster]