Geography
Prof Paul Bates
BSc(Soton), PhD(Bristol)
Professor of Hydrology
Director of the Cabot Institute
Editor in Chief, Journal of River Basin Management
Contact
Office: 1.9N
Tel: +44 (0)117 928 9108
Fax: +44 (0)117 9287878
Email: paul.bates@bristol.ac.uk
Research interests
Hydraulic and hydrologic modelling, remote sensing, uncertainty analysis and risk.
Selected publications
Prestininzi, P, Di Baldassarre, G, Schumann, GJ-P & Bates, PD. 'Selecting the appropriate hydraulic model structure using low-resolution satellite imagery', Advances in Water Resources, 34, (pp. 38-46), 2011. ISSN: 0309-1708 10.1016/j.advwatres.2010.09.016
Schumann, GJ-P, Di Baldassarre, G, Alsdorf, D.E. & Bates, PD. 'Near real-time flood wave approximation on large rivers from space: application to the River Po, Northern Italy', Water Resources Research, 46, (pp. 1-8), 2010. ISSN: 0043-1397 http://www.agu.org/journals/pip/wr/2008WR007672-pip.pdf
Bates, PD, Horritt, MS & Fewtrell, TJ. 'A simple inertial formulation of the shallow water equations for efficient two dimensional flood inundation modelling', Journal of Hydrology, 387, (pp. 33-45), 2010. ISSN: 0022-1694 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.03.027
Neal, JC, Fewtrell, TJ, Bates, PD & Wright, NG. 'A comparison of three parallelisation methods for 2D flood inundation models', Environmental Modelling & Software, 25, (pp. 398-411), 2010. 10.1016/j.envsoft.2009.11.007