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English
dataset
Elizabeth Bradshaw
British Oceanographic Data Centre
Marine Data Manager
Joseph Proudman Building
6 Brownlow Street
Liverpool
Merseyside
L3 5DA
United Kingdom
enquiries@bodc.ac.uk
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/
pointOfContact
2021-12-20T06:31:16
MEDIN
3.1.1
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
OGP
An improved database of coastal flooding in the United Kingdom from 1915 to 2016
British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048_surgewatch2.0
2018-05-18
publication
2017-02-06
creation
2021-04-21
revision
EDMED6588
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/
Coastal flooding caused by extreme sea levels can produce devastating and wide-ranging consequences. The ‘SurgeWatch’ v1.0 database systematically documents and assesses the consequences of historical coastal flood events around the UK. The original database was inevitably biased due to the inconsistent spatial and temporal coverage of sea-level observations utilised. Therefore, we present an improved version integrating a variety of ‘soft’ data such as journal papers, newspapers, weather reports, and social media. SurgeWatch2.0 identifies 329 coastal flooding events from 1915 to 2016, a more than fivefold increase compared to the 59 events in v1.0. Moreover, each flood event is now ranked using a multi-level categorisation based on inundation, transport disruption, costs, and fatalities: from 1 (Nuisance) to 6 (Disaster). For the 53 most severe events ranked Category 3 and above, an accompanying event description based upon the Source-Pathway-Receptor-Consequence framework was produced. The database contains 57 files: 1 XLSX file, 54 PDF files and 1 CSV file. The first file is a spreadsheet (XLSX) containing the list of all 329 coastal flood events in the database categorised according to the severity scale that we devised. The second and third files are PDF documents containing the short commentaries for all Category 1 and 2 events. There are an additional 53 PDF files containing the longer event commentaries for events ranked Category 3 and higher. A final CSV file contains the digitised storm tracks for the 53 Category 3 and higher events. Each of these files is self-describing and is accompanied by extensive metadata. SurgeWatch v2.0 provides the most comprehensive and coherent historical record of UK coastal flooding. It is designed to be a resource for research, planning and management and education. Haigh et al. (2017) provides more detail. Collation of the database and the development of the website was funded through a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) impact acceleration grant. The database contributes to the objectives of UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) consortium project FLOOD Memory (EP/K013513/1).
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University of Southampton School of Ocean and Earth Science
Unknown
+44 (0)23 8059 2011
National Oceanography Centre, European Way
Southampton
Hampshire
SO14 3ZH
United Kingdom
soes@noc.soton.ac.uk
http://www.soes.soton.ac.uk/
owner
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University of Southampton School of Ocean and Earth Science
Unknown
+44 (0)23 8059 2011
National Oceanography Centre, European Way
Southampton
Hampshire
SO14 3ZH
United Kingdom
soes@noc.soton.ac.uk
http://www.soes.soton.ac.uk/
originator
British Oceanographic Data Centre
Director
Joseph Proudman Building
6 Brownlow Street
Liverpool
Merseyside
L3 5DA
United Kingdom
enquiries@bodc.ac.uk
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/
custodian
British Oceanographic Data Centre
Director
Joseph Proudman Building
6 Brownlow Street
Liverpool
Merseyside
L3 5DA
United Kingdom
enquiries@bodc.ac.uk
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/
distributor
asNeeded
Meteorological geographical features
Elevation
INSPIRE themes
2009-07-31
revision
Other meteorological measurements
Sea level
SeaDataNet PDV
2021-05-19
revision
unknown
Vertical Coverages
2020-05-21
revision
Marine Environmental Data and Information Network
Natural Environment Research Council Designated Data Centres
MEDIN metadata record availability
2012-01-11
revision
otherRestrictions
No limitations apply
Data are freely available
otherRestrictions
No conditions apply
English
elevation
oceans
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
-75.00
20.00
30.00
85.00
SeaVoX water bodies
2021-10-28
revision
North Atlantic Ocean
SeaVoX water bodies
2021-10-28
revision
North Sea
SeaVoX water bodies
2021-10-28
revision
Irish Sea
SeaVoX water bodies
2021-10-28
revision
Bristol Channel
SeaVoX water bodies
2021-10-28
revision
English Channel
1915-01-01
2016-12-31
Delimited
http://www.surgewatch.org
Dataset Web Site
information
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/published_data_library/catalogue/10.5285/481720c2-35bd-6c10-e053-6c86abc06bb3/
Published dataset - doi:10.5285/481720c2-35bd-6c10-e053-6c86abc06bb3
Haigh I.D.; Ozsoy O.; Wadey M.P.; Nicholls R.J.; Gallop S.L.; Wahl T.; Brown J. (2017). An improved database of coastal flooding in the United Kingdom from 1915 to 2016. British Oceanographic Data Centre - Natural Environment Research Council, UK. doi:10/bzjx
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2010-12-08
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Instrument(s) used to collect data: sea level recorders.