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Research interests
Paul is a hydrologist by background, a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the American Geophysical Union, a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holder and in 2019 was awarded a CBE for services to flood risk management. He is also Chairman of the flood risk analytics company Fathom (www.fathom.global).
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 230 papers in international peer-reviewed journals, and these were cited over 2000 times in 2020 according to the ISI Web of Knowledge. He currently has an ISI H-index of 77 (or 97 on Google Scholar). 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, Europe and Africa.
External positions
Chairman, Fathom
30 Nov 0001 → …
Structured keywords and research groupings
- Cabot Institute Water Research
- Cabot Institute Natural Hazards and Disasters Research
- Cabot Institute Environmental Change Research
Keywords
- Floods
- Flood risk
- Uncerrtainty
- Natural hazards
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Developing enhanced impact models for integration with next generation NWP and climate outputs
1/09/10 → 1/09/14
Project: Research
Research output
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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) › peer-review
617 Citations (Scopus) -
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) › peer-review
293 Citations (Scopus) -
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) › peer-review
124 Citations (Scopus)
Datasets
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Aggregated fluvial flood hazard output for six Global Flood Models for the African Continent.
Trigg, M. A. (Contributor), Birch, C. E. (Contributor), Neal, J. (Contributor), Bates, P. D. (Contributor), Smith, A. (Contributor), Sampson, C. C. (Contributor), Yamazaki, D. (Contributor), Hirabayashi, Y. (Creator), Pappenberger, F. (Contributor), Dutra, E. (Creator), Ward, P. J. (Contributor), Winsemius, H. C. (Creator), Salamon, P. (Creator), Dottori, F. (Creator), Rudari, R. (Creator), Kappes, M. S. (Contributor), Simpson, A. L. (Contributor), Hadzilacos, G. (Creator) & Fewtrell, T. J. (Contributor), University of Leeds, 12 Sep 2016
DOI: 10.5518/96, http://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/79/
Dataset
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MERIT-Urban Corrected DEM
Liu, Y. (Creator), Bates, P. D. (Contributor), Neal, J. (Contributor) & Yamazaki, D. (Contributor), University of Bristol, 19 Jan 2021
DOI: 10.5523/bris.m1pnu7m717tl2trjbcpti7tle, http://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/m1pnu7m717tl2trjbcpti7tle
Dataset
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Gridded estimates of hourly areal rainfall for Great Britain (1990-2014) [CEH-GEAR1hr]
Lewis, E. (Contributor), Quinn, N. (Contributor), Blenkinsop, S. (Creator), Fowler, H. J. (Contributor), Freer, J. (Contributor), Tanguy, M. (Creator), Hitt, O. (Creator), Coxon, G. (Contributor), Bates, P. D. (Contributor) & Woods, R. A. (Contributor), NERC, 18 Apr 2019
DOI: 10.5285/d4ddc781-25f3-423a-bba0-747cc82dc6fa, https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/d4ddc781-25f3-423a-bba0-747cc82dc6fa
Dataset
Prizes
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LLoyd's of London Science of Risk Prize for Climate Change
Bates, Paul D (Recipient), 2012
Prize: Prizes, Medals, Awards and Grants
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Lloyd's of London Science of Risk Prize for Natural Hazards
Bates, Paul D (Recipient), 29 Nov 2012
Prize: Prizes, Medals, Awards and Grants
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Activities
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Evaluating linear trends with respect to past decadal variability can help us assess the severity of GRACE observed water storage change
Jonathan L Bamber (Contributor), Bramha Dutt Vishwakarma (Speaker), Paul D Bates (Contributor), Nico Sneeuw (Contributor) & Richard M Westaway (Contributor)
30 Apr 2021Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public talk, debate, discussion
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How to interpret severity of linear trends from GRACE time series
Bramha Dutt Vishwakarma (Speaker), Paul D Bates (Contributor), Nico Sneeuw (Contributor), Richard M Westaway (Contributor) & Jonathan L Bamber (Contributor)
29 Mar 2021Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public talk, debate, discussion
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Is the GIA signal in GRACE being treated correctly?
Bramha Dutt Vishwakarma (Contributor), Paul D Bates (Contributor), Nico Sneeuw (Contributor), Richard M Westaway (Contributor) & Jonathan L Bamber (Speaker)
7 Dec 2020Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public talk, debate, discussion