HYDEF Research Progress

David Lavers, Andrew Wade, David Brayshaw, Richard Allan

3rd August 2011

Contents

• River catchment selection.

• Rainfall/river flow/climate Datasets.

• Storm track analysis.

• Catchment response time.

• Climate analysis over catchment response times.

River catchments

• Wide geographical spread.• Capture rainfall gradient across GB and different geologies.• Includes Eden and Thames basins.• Common period 1975-2009.

River Catchments

• Add rivers’ table

Datasets

• Daily river flow time series (NRFA).

• Daily 0.25x0.25 gridded precipitation from ensembles project.

• Regional precipitation time series from Hadley Centre (for North Scotland and Southeast England).

• Six hourly climate fields (e.g. MSLP) from 20th Century reanalysis project.

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