Climate Change, Storms, Floods, Uncertainty and Humans?

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• Prof. Ian Cluckie, Swansea University
• Monday 12 November 2018, 19:30-21:00
• The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

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The problems infrastructure engineers face in designing for climate change

Engineers face considerable difficulty in dealing with the design and operation of large strategic infrastructure in a variable climate where the expectation is that flooding will in general become an increasing problem. This will be an issue in many parts of the world but the impact on the extremes of Drought and Flood may or may not occur in all countries at the same time! Large Urban Areas are where most people live and are directly in danger when extreme precipitation events occur. The key problem is that rainfall is one of the more difficult variables in atmospheric science to both predict in terms of potential climate change or to even measure. This is particularly so in terms of the real-time operation of major infrastructure designed to keep us safe. The design of large complex and extremely expensive urban drainage infrastructure is currently a primary focus in terms of protecting citizens of major Cities and attempting to mitigate the impact of extreme flooding. This talk focuses on some of the problems that Engineers face in relation to both understanding and modelling the impact of climate change on extreme rainfall events and the technical challenges that this presents in an uncertain environment.

This talk is part of the Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) series.

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