Tag: flood

Catastrophe Model Evaluation

Hydro-GIS Ltd are providing flood hazard consultancy services to London-based catastrophe modelling analytics company Maximum Information to assist with the evaluation of a North American inland flood model. Several high-resolution flood catastrophe models are currently available to the insurance sector; however, seeing through their complexity and determining their effectiveness for specific applications remains a challenge. With…
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25 years ago, the Easter floods of 1998 caused devastation in the Midlands

In April 1998, floods devastated the midlands which instigated a change in UK flood management

70 years since the North Sea flood – one of the UK’s largest natural disasters

The North Sea flood of 1953 was one of the largest natural disasters in the UK. Caused by a heavy storm surge that struck the Netherlands, north-west Belgium, England and Scotland