Dr Jeffrey Neal

Research summary

My research interests include the development of hydraulic models and the assimilation of observations with such models across and range of spatial scales. I also undertake research to support flood risk management, which includes work on modelling flood hazard in urban areas and methods to increase the computational efficiency of hydraulic models.

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Biography

I’m currently an early career research fellow funded by the Leverhulme Trust to investigate data assimilation methods for river discharge estimation from remote sensing. I’m also an advisor for the NERC DEMON project, a developer of the LISFLOOD-FP hydraulic model and co-investigator on the €3.2M EU-FP7 funded Kulturisk project.

As a researcher for the EPSRC/EA Flood Risk Management Research Consortium, I evaluated the use of distributed post flood water mark data for calibrating a city scale flood inundation models and undertook research into developing more efficient hydraulic models to support uncertainty analysis and large scale applications ...

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Selected publications

• Neal, JC, Schumann, GJ & Bates, PD 2012, ‘A sub-grid channel model for simulating river hydraulics and floodplain inundation over large and data sparse areas.’. Water Resources Research.
• Neal, J, Keef, C, Bates, P, Beven, K & Leedal, D 2012, ‘Probabilistic flood risk mapping including spatial dependence’. Hydrological Processes.

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Recent publications

• Lewis, M, Bates, P, Horsburgh, K, Neal, JC & Schumann, G 2013, ‘A storm surge inundation model of the northern Bay of Bengal using publicly available data’. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, vol 139., pp. 358-369
• Aronica, G, Neal, JC, Candela, A & Bates, PD 2013, ‘On the influence of using binary and distributed information for 2D hydraulic model calibration and uncertainty evaluation’.

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