Website
https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP180102522
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Flooding in Australia – are we properly prepared for how bad it can get? This project aims to investigate how floods have varied over the past 2000 years. Floods are a recurrent and natural part of Australia’s hydroclimate and are influenced strongly by climate variability. However, these influences are not yet completely understood or accounted for. This project will use novel insights from 2000 years of climate reconstructions to generate new knowledge about how bad flooding can get and what causes flood frequency to change over time. A decision-making framework that allows for all the uncertainties associated with managing floods will also be developed. This will provide a critical evaluation of the accuracy of existing flood estimates, and also the reliability of infrastructure and policy based on those estimates.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 04-2018
End Date: 06-2021
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $333,267.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Water Resources Engineering | Surfacewater Hydrology | Palaeoclimatology | Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Australia (excl. Social Impacts) | Natural Hazards in Urban and Industrial Environments
