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The July 2007 floods in England and Wales - a preliminary appraisal issued by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Marsh, Terry; Hannaford, Jamie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5256-3310. 2007 The July 2007 floods in England and Wales - a preliminary appraisal issued by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Wallingford, NERC/Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, 2pp.

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Abstract/Summary

The weather conditions experienced across much of the UK throughout the summer of 2007 have been truly exceptional. The jet stream (which influences the paths taken by weather systems in the North Atlantic) has followed an abnormally southerly track and the extension of the Azores high pressure cell across the UK – which brings settled weather conditions in most summers – has failed to become established. Correspondingly, a sustained sequence of rain-bearing low pressure systems has produced outstanding 12-week rainfall totals, and a series of flood events culminating in widespread severe flooding in late July.

Item Type: Publication - Report
Programmes: CEH Programmes pre-2009 publications > Water
CEH Programmes pre-2009 publications > Water > WA01 Water extremes
CEH Programmes pre-2009 publications > Water > WA01 Water extremes > WA01.1 New methodologies to quantify floods, flows and droughts
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas: Boorman (to September 2014)
Funders/Sponsors: NERC
NORA Subject Terms: Hydrology
Meteorology and Climatology
Date made live: 17 Mar 2015 15:28 +0 (UTC)
URI: https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/510186

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