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| Project title: Flood Forecasting Modelling Platform - Environment Agency (UK) | Summary: Development of flood forecasting software for the UK's Environment Agency (Southern Region). | ||||||||
| Client: Environment Agency (UK) | Financed by:Environment Agency | ||||||||
| Period of assignment: 1998 – 1999 | Location: Worthing, UK | ||||||||
| Project Value: £5 000 | WRA services: £5 000 | ||||||||
| In co-operation with: Oxford Scientific Software | |||||||||
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Background The UK's Environment Agency is charged with the responsibility of issuing flood warning for UK rivers. The Southern Region of the Agency wished to improve the accuracy and lead time of forecasts with the use of PC based models linked to their real-time telemetry system. Reliable software, delivered on time and to budget was required handle the interaction with the user, telemetry data files, execution of an arbitrary number of hydrological models and presentation of results. |
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Scope of work by Water Resource Associates Ltd WRA were commissioned to write the software to accomplish the task described above. An easy to use solution was provided based on experience in writing robust applications such as the HYSIM rainfall/runoff model and RESSIM Water Resource system simulation software. The Flood Forecasting Platform is a 32 bit Windows 98/NT application. |
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Results The Flood Forecasting Platform was delivered on time a to budget and is now undergoing deployment with flood forecasting staff throughout the region. |
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