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Research interests
Paul is a hydrologist by background, a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holder. He has widespread research interests in risk, resilience, uncertainty, governance and decision-making in relation to natural hazards and global water issues. He is a double recipient of the Lloyd's of London Science of Risk prize and in 2015 he was awarded a 50th Anivversary Prize for Economic Impact by the UK's Natural Environment Research Council. He has published over 200 papers in international peer-reviewed journals, and these were cited over 1700 times in 2018 according to the ISI Web of Knowledge. He currently has an ISI H-index of 61. For a full publication list see here.
Paul's main science contribution has been to improve the prediction of flood inundation through the development of new computer models, the use of data from new airborne, satellite and ground sensors and through the better characterization of risk and uncertainty. For videos of Paul talking about his research see here and here.
He has held Visiting Scientist positions at Princeton University, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Laboratoire National d'Hydraulique, Paris, the EU Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
He also undertakes significant International collaboration, including work with the French National Space Agency (CNES), Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia in Brazil, as well as numerous universities in the US and Europe.
Structured keywords and research groupings
- Cabot Institute Water Research
- Cabot Institute Natural Hazards and Disasters Research
- Cabot Institute Environmental Change Research
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Projects
Developing enhanced impact models for integration with next generation NWP and climate outputs
1/09/10 → 1/09/14
Project: Research
Research Output
A simple inertial formulation of the shallow water equations for efficient two dimensional flood inundation modelling
Bates, PD., Horritt, MS. & Fewtrell, TJ., 2010, In : Journal of Hydrology. 387, 1-2, p. 33 - 45Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal)
A subgrid channel model for simulating river hydraulics and floodplain inundation over large and data sparse areas
Neal, J., Schumann, G. & Bates, P., 7 Nov 2012, In : Water Resources Research. 48, 11, 16 p., W11506.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal)
Amazon flood wave hydraulics
Trigg, MA., Wilson, MD., Bates, PD., Horritt, MS., Alsdorf, DE., Forsberg, BR. & Vega, MC., 2009, In : Journal of Hydrology. 374, p. 92 - 105Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal)
Datasets
Bare-Earth SRTM
Paiva, R. (Creator), O'Loughlin, F. (Creator), Durand, M. (Contributor), Alsdorf, D. (Contributor), Bates, P. D. (Contributor) & Bates, P. D. (Data Manager), University of Bristol, 19 Mar 2015
DOI: 10.5523/bris.10tv0p32gizt01nh9edcjzd6wa, http://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/10tv0p32gizt01nh9edcjzd6wa
Dataset
ICESat derived inland water surface spot heights (IWSH)
Yamazaki, D. (Creator), O'Loughlin, F. (Creator), Bates, P. (Creator), Neal, J. (Creator) & Bates, P. D. (Data Manager), University of Bristol, 1 Oct 2015
DOI: 10.5523/bris.15hbqgewcrti51hmzp69bi4gky, http://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/15hbqgewcrti51hmzp69bi4gky
Dataset
Prizes
LLoyd's of London Science of Risk Prize for Climate Change
Bates, Paul D (Recipient), 2012
Prize: Prizes, Medals, Awards and Grants
Lloyd's of London Science of Risk Prize for Natural Hazards
Bates, Paul D (Recipient), 29 Nov 2012
Prize: Prizes, Medals, Awards and Grants
Activities
Mapping global water stress from GRACE satellite data
Bramha Dutt Vishwakarma (Speaker), , Paul Bates (Contributor), , Nico Sneeuw (Contributor), & Jonathan Bamber (Contributor)
20 Mar 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public talk, debate, discussion
Global land ice, hydrology and ocean mass trends: an ERC project to solve the sea level budget, GIA and land ice mass trends
Jonathan L Bamber (Speaker), , Alba Martin Espanol (Contributor), , Andrew Zammit Mangion (Contributor), , Paul Bates (Contributor), , Rory Bingham (Contributor), & Jonathan Rougier (Contributor)
19 Sep 2016
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public talk, debate, discussion
Flooding talk to 6th Form and GCSE students
Paul D Bates (Speaker)
6 Feb 2014
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Schools engagement
Supervised Work
Amazon River and floodplain hydrodynamics
Author: Trigg, M. A., 2010Supervisor: Bates, P. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Amazon River and floodplain hydrodynamics
Author: Trigg, M. A., 2010Supervisor: Bates, P. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Bayesian calibration of flood inundation simulators using an observation of flood extent
Author: Woodhead, S. P. B., 2007Supervisor: Bates, P. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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