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CATEGORIES:Cambridge Society for the Application of Research 
 (CSAR)
SUMMARY:Climate Change\, Storms\, Floods\, Uncertainty and
  Humans? - Prof. Ian Cluckie\, Swansea University
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181112T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181112T210000
UID:TALK111829AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/111829
DESCRIPTION:*The problems infrastructure engineers face in des
 igning for climate change*\n\nEngineers face consi
 derable difficulty in dealing with the design and 
 operation of large strategic infrastructure in a v
 ariable climate where the expectation is that floo
 ding 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 Floo
 d may or may not occur in all countries at the sam
 e time! Large Urban Areas are where most people li
 ve and are directly in danger when extreme precipi
 tation events occur. The key problem is that rainf
 all is one of the more difficult variables in atmo
 spheric science to both predict in terms of potent
 ial climate change or to even measure. This is par
 ticularly so in terms of the real-time operation o
 f major infrastructure designed to keep us safe. T
 he design of large complex and extremely expensive
  urban drainage infrastructure is currently a prim
 ary focus in terms of protecting citizens of major
  Cities and attempting to mitigate the impact of e
 xtreme flooding. This talk focuses on some of the 
 problems that Engineers face in relation to both u
 nderstanding and modelling the impact of climate c
 hange on extreme rainfall events and the technical
  challenges that this presents in an uncertain env
 ironment.\n\n
LOCATION:The Wolfson Hall\, Churchill College\, Storey's Wa
 y\, Cambridge\, CB3 0DS
CONTACT:John Cook
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