Predictive and investigative modelling of flood risk within Welsh river catchments : a co-funded pilot study : preliminary report, February 2004

The first three sections of this report detail the rationale project rationale: background and inception of the pilot study (Section 1); specifications and remit of the study as a whole (Section 2), and details BGS’ role (Section 3). The remaining sections represent preliminary assessments of methodologies relevant to the modelling of flood risk in Wales: mapping methodologies (Section 4); the Holocene evolution of Welsh river catchments (Section 5); radiocarbon dating techniques and preliminary results (Section 6); the implications of the methodologies, data and interpretation for BGS alluvial mapping methodologies (Section 7), and a preliminary assessment of computer-based forward-modelling of flood risk at Aberystwyth University (Section 8).