Category Archives: Partnerships
Studentship opportunity – snow monitoring in Scotland
We’re supporting CEH in a summer placement for a university student who is doing a degree in a “quantitative discipline” (e.g. mathematics, statistics, computing, engineering, physics) to come and try working in environmental research. The project is “Snow hydrology: analysing … Continue reading
EFAS 13th Annual Meeting in Sweden
Last week I attended the annual meeting of the European Flood Awareness System partners. Each year the meeting is held in a different location. This year it took place in Norrköping, Sweden, home of the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, … Continue reading
Ready for winter – new flooding communications programme
The Scottish Flood Forecasting Service (SFFS) will have another outlet for its flood guidance activities this winter. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) is launching a campaign to provide the public with advance notice of potential flooding. Through a newly … Continue reading
The European Flood Awareness System – 2015 annual meeting
Last month I attended the 10th annual partners meeting of the European Flood Awareness System, of which the forecasting service is a member. EFAS provides forecasts across Europe, using a gridded LISFLOOD model fed by deterministic and probabilistic rainfall forecasts from ECMWF. Alerts … Continue reading
Hydrology of Scotland: some hydrometric perspectives
Dr. Andrew Black contributes the final piece of our two-part feature on the climatology and hydrology of Scotland. It’s rare to be invited to offer some personal perspectives on matters hydrological, but gives a useful chance to reflect. It’s almost 20 … Continue reading
The Climatology of Scotland – four seasons in one day?
Martyn Sunter contributes the first of a two-part feature on the climatology and hydrology of Scotland. Having worked for the Met Office in Scotland since 1994 I have experienced the challenges of monitoring and forecasting our interesting weather and climate. Here … Continue reading
#FRMis10: Future flood risk management strategies
When the inaugural SNIFFER Flood Risk Management conference was convened in 2005 many of the current approaches to flood risk management were very much in their infancy – if at all conceived. 10 years on and the ‘FRMis10’ conference agenda– … Continue reading
