Flood Estimation Handbook references

FORMETTA, G., GRIFFIN, A., HAXTON, T., STEWART, L. & YOUNG, A. 2023. Estimating flood peaks and hydrographs for small catchments: R6 – Estimating design hydrographs in small catchments. Bristol: Environment Agency.

PROSDOCIMI, I., STEWART, L., SVENSSON, C. & VESUVIANO, G. 2023. Estimating flood peaks and hydrographs for small catchments: R9 – Depth-duration-frequency analysis for short-duration rainfall events. Bristol: Environment Agency.

STEWART, L. 2023. Estimating flood peaks and hydrographs for small catchments: R3 – Summary of reassessment of FEH methods and recommendations. Bristol: Environment Agency.

STEWART, L., FAULKNER, D., FORMETTA, G., GRIFFIN, A., HAXTON, T., PROSDOCIMI, I., VESUVIANO, G. & YOUNG, A. 2023a. Estimating flood peaks and hydrographs for small catchments: R0 – Phase 2 overview report. Bristol: Environment Agency.

STEWART, L., VESUVIANO, G., YOUNG, A. & HAXTON, T. 2023b. Estimating flood peaks and hydrographs for small catchments: R2 – Performance of FEH peak flow estimation methods in small catchments. Bristol: Environment Agency.

VESUVIANO, G., GRIFFIN, A., STEWART, L. & YOUNG, A. 2023a. Estimating flood peaks and hydrographs for small catchments: R4 – Estimating the median annual flood (QMED) in small catchments. Bristol: Environment Agency.

VESUVIANO, G., GRIFFIN, A. & STEWART, L. 2023b. Estimating flood peaks and hydrographs for small catchments: R5 – Pooling-group formation for small catchments. Bristol: Environment Agency.

VESUVIANO, G. 2022. The FEH22 rainfall depth duration-frequency (DDF) model. Wallingford: UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.

FORMETTA, G., OVER, T. & STEWART, E. 2021. Assessment of Peak Flow Scaling and Its Effect on Flood Quantile Estimation in the United Kingdom. Water Resources Research, 57, e2020WR028076.

GRIFFIN, A., STEWART, L., VESUVIANO, G. & HAXTON, T. 2021. Uncertainty in FEH methods. A short guide for FEH users. Wallingford: UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.

MILLER, J., VESUVIANO, G. & STEWART, E. 2021. Improving urban flood estimation and flood risk assessment using landscape metrics. FLOODrisk 2020-4th European Conference on Flood Risk Management. Budapest University of Technology and Economics: Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

VESUVIANO, G. & STEWART, E. 2021. Recalibration of FEH13 rainfall model for Cumbria. Final report. Wallingford: UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.

VESUVIANO, G., STEWART, E., SPENCER, P. & MILLER, J. D. 2021. The effect of depth-duration-frequency model recalibration on rainfall return period estimates. Journal of Flood Risk Management, e12703.

MILLER, J. D., STEWART, E., HESS, T. & BREWER, T. 2020. Evaluating landscape metrics for characterising hydrological response to storm events in urbanised catchments. Urban Water Journal, 17, 247-258.

VESUVIANO, G., STEWART, E. & YOUNG, A. R. 2020. Estimating design flood runoff volume. Journal of Flood Risk Management, 13, e12642.

GRIFFIN, A., VESUVIANO, G. & STEWART, E. 2019a. Have trends changed over time? A study of UK peak flow data and sensitivity to observation period. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 19, 2157-2167.

GRIFFIN, A., YOUNG, A. & STEWART, L. 2019b. Revising the BFIHOST catchment descriptor to improve UK flood frequency estimates. Hydrology Research, 50, 1508-1519.

VESUVIANO, G. & MILLER, J. D. 2019. Design flood estimation and utility of high-resolution calibration data in small, heavily urbanised catchments. Journal of Flood Risk Management, 12, e12464.

FORMETTA, G., BELL, V. & STEWART, E. 2018. Use of Flood Seasonality in Pooling-Group Formation and Quantile Estimation: An Application in Great Britain. Water Resources Research, 54, 1127-1145.

MILLER, J. D. & BREWER, T. 2018. Refining flood estimation in urbanized catchments using landscape metrics. Landscape and Urban Planning, 175, 34-49.

DIXON, H., FAULKNER, D., FRY, M., KRAL, F., LAMB, R., MACKLIN, M., PROSDOCIMI, I., REED, D., ROGERS, P., SEFTON, C., STEWART, L. & VESUVIANO, G. 2017. Making better use of local data in flood frequency estimation. Bristol: Environment Agency.

FORMETTA, G., PROSDOCIMI, I., STEWART, E. & BELL, V. 2017. Estimating the index flood with continuous hydrological models: an application in Great Britain. Hydrology Research, 49, 123-133.

MILLER, J. D. & HESS, T. 2017. Urbanisation impacts on storm runoff along a rural-urban gradient. Journal of Hydrology, 552, 474-489.

PROSDOCIMI, I., STEWART, E. J. & VESUVIANO, G. 2017. A depth–duration–frequency analysis for short-duration rainfall events in England and Wales. Hydrology Research.

VESUVIANO, G., STEWART, L., HAXTON, T., YOUNG, A., HUNT, T., SPENCER, P. & WHITLING, M. 2016. Reducing uncertainty in small-catchment flood peak estimation. E3S Web of Conferences, 7, 01008.

KJELDSEN, T. R. & PROSDOCIMI, I. 2015. A bivariate extension of the Hosking and Wallis goodness-of-fit measure for regional distributions. Water Resources Research, 51, 896-907.

PROSDOCIMI, I., KJELDSEN, T. R. & MILLER, J. D. 2015. Detection and attribution of urbanization effect on flood extremes using nonstationary flood-frequency models. Water Resources Research, 51, 4244-4262.

STEWART, L., BERAN, M., FARQUHARSON, F., FAULKNER, D., JONES, D., KJELDSEN, T., NEWSON, M., O'CONNELL, E. & SUTCLIFFE, J. 2015. Risks and Extremes. Progress in Modern Hydrology: Past, Present and Future.

KJELDSEN, T. R., JONES, D. A. & MORRIS, D. G. 2014. Using multiple donor sites for enhanced flood estimation in ungauged catchments. Water Resources Research, 50, 6646-6657.

MACDONALD, N., KJELDSEN, T. R., PROSDOCIMI, I. & SANGSTER, H. 2014. Reassessing flood frequency for the Sussex Ouse, Lewes: the inclusion of historical flood information since AD 1650. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 14, 2817-2828.

MILLER, J. D., KIM, H., KJELDSEN, T. R., PACKMAN, J., GREBBY, S. & DEARDEN, R. 2014. Assessing the impact of urbanization on storm runoff in a peri-urban catchment using historical change in impervious cover. Journal of Hydrology, 515, 59-70.

PROSDOCIMI, I., KJELDSEN, T. R. & SVENSSON, C. 2014. Non-stationarity in annual and seasonal series of peak flow and precipitation in the UK. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 14, 1125-1144.

STEWART, E., VESUVIANO, G., MORRIS, D. G. & PROSDOCIMI, I. 2014. The new FEH rainfall depth-duration-frequency model: results, comparisons and implications. 12^th British Hydrological Society National Symposium. Birmingham.

KJELDSEN, T. R., MILLER, J. D. & PACKMAN, J. C. 2013. Modelling design flood hydrographs in catchments with mixed urban and rural land cover. Hydrology Research, 44, 1040-1057.

MILLER, J. D., MORRIS, D. G., STEWART, E. J. & GIBSON, H. S. 2013. The November 2009 floods in Cumbria, north-west England - an analysis of the rainfall and river flows in two catchments. In: KLIJN, F. & SCHWECKENDICK, T. (eds.) Comprehensive Flood Risk Management. London: CRC Press.

STEWART, E. J., JONES, D. A., SVENSSON, C., MORRIS, D. G., DEMPSEY, P., DENT, J. E., COLLIER, C. G. & ANDERSON, C. W. 2013. Reservoir Safety - Long Return Period Rainfall. London: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

SVENSSON, C., KJELDSEN, T. R. & JONES, D. A. 2013. Flood frequency estimation using a joint probability approach within a Monte Carlo framework. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 58, 8-27.

FAULKNER, D., KJELDSEN, T., PACKMAN, J. & STEWART, L. 2012. Estimating flood peaks and hydrographs for small catchments: Phase 1. Bristol: Environment Agency.

MILLER, J. D., KJELDSEN, T. R., HANNAFORD, J. & MORRIS, D. G. 2012. A hydrological assessment of the November 2009 floods in Cumbria, UK. Hydrology Research, 44, 180-197.

STEWART, E. J., MORRIS, D. G., JONES, D. A. & GIBSON, H. S. 2012. Frequency analysis of extreme rainfall in Cumbria, 16–20 November 2009. Hydrology Research, 43, 649-662.

COLLIER, C. G., MORRIS, D. G. & JONES, D. A. 2011. Assessment of the return period of near-PMP point and catchment rainfall for England and Wales. Meteorological Applications, 18, 155-162.

KJELDSEN, T. R. 2010. Modelling the impact of urbanization on flood frequency relationships in the UK. Hydrology Research, 41, 391-405.

KJELDSEN, T. R. & JONES, D. A. 2010. Predicting the index flood in ungauged UK catchments: On the link between data-transfer and spatial model error structure. Journal of Hydrology, 387, 1-9.

SVENSSON, C. & JONES, D. A. 2010a. Review of methods for deriving areal reduction factors. Journal of Flood Risk Management, 3, 232-245.

SVENSSON, C. & JONES, D. A. 2010b. Review of rainfall frequency estimation methods. Journal of Flood Risk Management, 3, 296-313.

KJELDSEN, T. R. 2009. Modelling the impact of urbanisation on flood runoff volume. Water Management, 162, 329-336.

KJELDSEN, T. R. & JONES, D. A. 2009a. An exploratory analysis of error components in hydrological regression modeling. Water Resources Research, 45, W02407.

KJELDSEN, T. R. & JONES, D. A. 2009b. A formal statistical model for pooled analysis of extreme floods. Hydrology Research, 40, 465-480.

KJELDSEN, T. R., JONES, D. A. & BAYLISS, A. C. 2008. Improving the FEH statistical procedures for flood frequency estimation. Bristol: Environment Agency.

JONES, D. A. & KAY, A. L. 2007. Uncertainty analysis for estimating flood frequencies for ungauged catchments using rainfall-runoff models. Advances in Water Resources, 30, 1190-1204.

KAY, A. L., JONES, D. A., CROOKS, S. M., KJELDSEN, T. R. & FUNG, C. F. 2007. An investigation of site-similarity approaches to generalisation of a rainfall–runoff model. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 11, 500-515.

KJELDSEN, T. R. 2007. Flood Estimation Handbook Supplementary Report No. 1. The revitalised FSR/FEH rainfall-runoff method, Wallingford, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.

KJELDSEN, T. R. & JONES, D. 2007. Estimation of an index flood using data transfer in the UK. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 52, 86-98.

KJELDSEN, T. R., JONES, D. A. & BAYLISS, A. C. 2007. Statistical modelling of flood risk at ungauged sites. Second IMA International Conference on Flood Risk Assessment. Plymouth.

BAYLISS, A. C., BLACK, K. B., FAVA-VERDE, A. & KJELDSEN, T. R. 2006. URBEXT₂₀₀₀ - A new FEH catchment descriptor. Calculation, dissemination and application. London: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

KAY, A. L., JONES, D. A., CROOKS, S. M., CALVER, A. & REYNARD, N. S. 2006. A comparison of three approaches to spatial generalization of rainfall–runoff models. Hydrological Processes, 20, 3953-3973.

KJELDSEN, T. R. & JONES, D. A. 2006. Prediction uncertainty in a median-based index flood method using L moments. Water Resources Research, 42, W07414.

KJELDSEN, T. R., PRUDHOMME, C., SVENSSON, C. & STEWART, E. J. 2006. A shortcut to seasonal design rainfall estimates in the UK. Water and Environment Journal, 20, 282-286.

KJELDSEN, T. R., STEWART, E. J., PACKMAN, J. C., FOLWELL, S. S. & BAYLISS, A. C. 2005. Revitalisation of the FSR/FEH rainfall runoff method. London: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

KJELDSEN, T. R. & JONES, D. A. 2004. Sampling variance of flood quantiles from the generalised logistic distribution estimated using the method of L-moments. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 8, 183-190.

BAYLISS, A. C. & REED, D. W. 2001. The use of historical data in flood frequency estimation. Wallingford: Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.