Research Outputs

Water planning and the energy transition

Modelling the energy transition impacts on power users, starting with the water sector. 

New Investigator Award funded by the UK's Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC). For project progress see project website. 

Research in progress, outputs to follow.

Robust design of hydropower systems

Key outputs to date come from Veysel Yildiz's PhD project focusing on integrating turbine design into hydropower system planning:

• Fast generation of plausible climate-perturbed flows for small hydropower assessments: Software & Publication

• Fast and robust design of run-of-river hydropower plants: Paper in revision (Water Resources Research) and papers in preparation.

Exploring long-term futures

Exploration of large datasets of plausible futures:

• Method to identify clusters of critical scenarios from large-scale IAM (integrated assessment model) experiments. Conference poster, paper in progress.

Generation of plausible future scenarios:

• Fast generation of plausible climate-perturbed flows for small hydropower assessments: Software & Publication

Assessing forecasts' value

• Exploring the skill-value relationship with a method to generate synthetic forecasts of arbitrary skill from a reference forecast: Software & Publication

Climate change risks to water quality

Research in progress through Mr Mustafa Onur Onen's PhD studies (CASE studentship in partnership with Anglian Water Services). See project page.

Outputs to follow as Mustafa's PhD progresses.

Basin-scale water resource modelling

• Large-scale transboundary basins: vulnerability assessment for the Tigris-Euphrates (paper) or the Indus river basin (work in progress), modelling in the Zambezi (methods paper).

• Role of water infrastructure in the water cycle: representations in hydrological models (paper) and impact on streamflow at the scale of a large city (paper).

• Technology appraisal with the hydro-economics of dynamic water pricing with smart metering (award-winning paper)

Metrics and methods for collaboration

• Urban drainage: use of multi-criteria metrics for time series to better define the performance of rainwater harvesting tanks (paper) and sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) in general (paper).

• Flood models: contributions to metrics for computational experiments to compare two approaches (work in progress).

• General methods for human and natural systems to produce resilience (paper), vulnerability (paper) and reliability (paper) metrics.

• Statistical methods, e.g., for detecting the duration of a change (paper)