Name and acronym above are provisional :-) - Toby.


​This research is intended to be part of UKCEH's response to the Climate & Land and Flood & Drought Impacts challenges of UKCEH's Science Challenges.

​The impacts of coastal inundation are extremely challenging to predict in wet monsoonal ecosystems. Not only are sea surge events themselves very challenging to predict - especially in the Maritime Continent with its mixture of land and ocean - but the impacts on land are extremely variable depending on topography and land use (e.g. in coastal areas of Singapore where the terrain is very low-lying).

• Recent developments in high-resolution climate modelling have greatly improved our knowledge of precipitation (PRIMAVERA), however simulation of soil moisture dynamics remains approximate in many ecosystems. Also see AsiaPEX (p.11 of GEWEX here). *** Hugh: Just to be clear I have no connection to AsiaPEX and although I know PierLuigi Vidale, I was not involved with PRIMAVERA either. I have included them here because they are relevant ***
• Impact?
• Relevance?
• What can we produce?

By the end of 2023, a new globalised coupled model approach will have been developed through the CHAMFER project which provides new and much-improved ability to simulate the behaviour of such catchments (UM_JULES). *** Hugh: I am on CHAMFER - as we have discussed - and I am hoping to have put together most of what we need by the end of 2023 ***
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