Prof. Paul Bates

University of Bristol

Professor of Hydrology

My Profile

About

Paul Bates is Director of the Cabot Institute (www.bris.ac.uk/cabot) and Professor of Hydrology in the School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol, UK. Since commencing his PhD in 1989 his primary research focus has been to improve the prediction of flood inundation. He has published over 150 refereed journal papers, books and book chapters in the field of hydraulic modelling, including in 2005 the edited volume “Computational Fluid Dynamics” published by John Wiley. He is probably best known for his work developing the LISFLOODFP flood inundation model and on the NASA/CNES Surface Water Ocean Topography satellite mission (http://swot.jpl.nasa. gov/). He undertakes research with numerous groups in the US, Europe, Asia and South America including Princeton University, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, Laboratoire National d’Hydraulique, Paris and the EU Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy

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Technical Committees

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Committee on Flood Risk Management
Committee on Fluvial Hydraulics
IAHR/IWA Joint Committee on Hydroinformatics

IAHR Position

Committee Name	Position	Start Date	End Date
JRBM Editorial Board	Advisory Editors	2017-01-01	Now
JRBM Editorial Board	Editor	2012-01-01	2017-01-01

My Papers and Presentations

Title	Year
Evaluating a New LISFLOOD-FP Formulation with Data from the Summer 2007 Floods in Tewkesbury, UK	2010
The Effect of Temporal and Spatial Coarsening on Storage Cell Predictions of Urban Flood Inundation	2007
Hydraulic Modelling in a Data-Rich World	2005
Split-Sample Testing of Classical and Adaptive Time Step Storage Cell Codes for Flood Modelling	2005

My Videos

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IAHR Awards

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