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Paul Bates (hydrology)
AwardsJohn Dalton Medal (2024)

Fellow of the Royal Society (2021) Commander of the British Empire for services to flood risk management (2019) NERC Impact Award (2015) Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (2015)

Lloyd’s of London Science of Risk prize (2012)
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Southampton (BSc)
Alma materUniversity of Bristol (PhD)
ThesisFinite element of modeling of floodplain inundation (1992)
Academic work
DisciplineProfessor of Hydrology
InstitutionsUniversity of Bristol
Notable studentsHannah Cloke

Paul David Bates CBE FRS is a hydrologist, working as Professor of Hydrology at the University of Bristol[1] and Chairman of Fathom,[2] a water risk intelligence firm that he cofounded. He was Director of the University of Bristol's Cabot Institute of the Environment[3] from 2011 to 2013 and subsequently Head of Bristol's School of Geographical Sciences (2013–2017).

In 2012, Bates was awarded the Lloyd's of London Science of Risk prize[4] for his work on numerical solutions of the local inertial form of the shallow water equations.[5] He was elected as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2015[6] and received a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2017.[7] He was made a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for services to flood risk management in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2021.[8] In 2024, Bates received the John Dalton Medal for distinguished research in the hydrology field.[9]

Education

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Bates is a graduate of the University of Southampton,[10] where he completed a B.Sc. in Geography in 1989 before moving to University of Bristol to study for a Ph.D., graduating in 1993. His Ph.D. research analysed finite element methods for modeling flood flows.[11]

Career

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Bates has published over 270 papers in international journals, which between them have been cited more than 40,000 times,[12] as well as writing for The Conversation[13][14] and The Guardian.[15]

He is noted for the development of the LISFLOOD-FP hydrodynamic model[16] which solves the local inertial form of the shallow water equations in two dimensions,[5] with channel flows represented as a sub-grid scale feature.[17] The numerical scheme employed in LISFLOOD-FP[18] allows its application to continental-to-global scale domains at spatial resolutions below 100 m,[19] for both present day and future conditions under scenarios representing climate and socio-economic change.[20][21] The code, or clones of it, are now used by multiple engineering firms, insurers, banks, governments, research firms[22] and NGOs around the world to help manage and mitigate flood risk. To validate these predictions Bates uses data from optical and synthetic-aperture radar satellites in combination with airborne and ground data to quantify their uncertainty.[23]

Bates is one of the UK scientists working on the Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission (SWOT), a satellite altimeter that measures the Earth's surface water every 21 days. Bates leads a project calibrating the accuracy of the mission by comparing satellite and surface recordings of the changing height of the surface of the Bristol Channel.[24]

In 2013 Bates co-founded Fathom,[25] a flood risk analytics firm based in Bristol, UK, with his then PhD students Chris Sampson and Andy Smith and academic colleague Jeff Neal.[26]

References

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  1. ^ "Professor Paul Bates". University of Bristol. Retrieved 3 August 2024.
  2. ^ "Paul Bates". Fathom. Retrieved 2024-05-15.
  3. ^ https://bristol.ac.uk/media-library/sites/cabot---old/migrated/documents/hydrology_lecturer.doc
  4. ^ https://www.lse.ac.uk/CATS/Assets/PDFs/Lloyds-Science-of-Risk-Post-conference-booklet-2012-3.pdf
  5. ^ a b Bates, P. D.; Horritt, M. S.; Fewtrell, T. J. (7 June 2010). "A simple inertial formulation of the shallow water equations for efficient two dimensional flood inundation modelling". Journal of Hydrology. 387 (1–2): 33–45. Bibcode:2010JHyd..387...33B. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.03.027 – via Science Direct.
  6. ^ "SWOT Science Team Members Elected 2015 AGU Fellows". NASA SWOT. Retrieved 2024-05-15.
  7. ^ "Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award". University of Bristol. Retrieved 2024-05-15.
  8. ^ "Royal Society elects outstanding new Fellows and Foreign Members | Royal Society". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 2024-05-15.
  9. ^ "John Dalton Medal". European Geosciences Union (EGU). Retrieved 2024-11-05.
  10. ^ "Paul D Bates". University of Bristol. Retrieved 2024-05-15.
  11. ^ Bates, Paul David (1992). Finite element modelling of floodplain inundation. University of Bristol. p. 1.
  12. ^ "Paul Bates". scholar.google.co.uk. Retrieved 2024-05-15.
  13. ^ Kousky, Carolyn; Porter, Jeremy; Wing, Oliver; Bates, Paul (2022-01-31). "New flood maps show US damage rising 26% in next 30 years due to climate change alone, and the inequity is stark". The Conversation. Retrieved 2024-05-15.
  14. ^ Bates, Paul; Johnes, Penny; Pancost, Richard; Wagener, Thorsten (2014-02-24). "Climate change and natural patterns combined to bring wettest winter ever". The Conversation. Retrieved 2024-05-15.
  15. ^ "Paul Bates | The Guardian". the Guardian. Retrieved 2024-05-15.
  16. ^ developers, LISFLOOD-FP (2022-09-23), "LISFLOOD-FP 8.1 hydrodynamic model", Zenodo, Bibcode:2022zndo...6912932D, doi:10.5281/zenodo.6912932, retrieved 2024-05-15
  17. ^ Neal, J; Schumann, G; Bates, P (November 2012). "A subgrid channel model for simulating river hydraulics and floodplain inundation over large and data sparse areas". Water Resources Research. 48 (11). Bibcode:2012WRR....4811506N. doi:10.1029/2012WR012514 – via AGU Advancing Earth and Space Sciences.
  18. ^ Shustikova, I; Domeneghetti, A; Neal, J; Bates, P; Castellarin, A (March 2019). "Comparing 2D capabilities of HEC-RAS and LISFLOOD-FP on complex topography". Hydrological Sciences Journal. 64 (14): 1769–82. Bibcode:2019HydSJ..64.1769S. doi:10.1080/02626667.2019.1671982. hdl:11585/711160 – via Taylor & Francis Online.
  19. ^ Sampson, CC; Smith, AM; Bates, P. D.; Neal, J.; Alfieri, L.; Freer, JE (August 2015). "A high-resolution global flood hazard model". Water Resources Research. 51 (9): 7358–81. Bibcode:2015WRR....51.7358S. doi:10.1002/2015WR016954. PMC 4989447. PMID 27594719 – via AGU - Advancing Earth and Space Sciences.
  20. ^ Bates, P.; Savage, J; Wing, O; Quinn, N; Sampson, C; Neal, J; Smith, A (March 2023). "A climate-conditioned catastrophe risk model for UK flooding". Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences. 23 (2): 8910908. Bibcode:2023NHESS..23..891B. doi:10.5194/nhess-23-891-2023 – via EGU - European Geosciences Union.
  21. ^ Bates, P; Quinn, N; Sampson, C; Smith, A; Wing, O; Sosa, J; Savage, J; Olcese, G; Neal, J; Schumann, G (December 2020). "Combined Modeling of US Fluvial, Pluvial, and Coastal Flood Hazard Under Current and Future Climates". Water Resources Research. 57 (2). doi:10.1029/2020WR028673 – via AGU - Advancing Earth and Space Sciences.
  22. ^ "ThinkHazard! Documentation". gfdrr.github.io. Retrieved 2024-05-15.
  23. ^ Schumann, G; Neal, J; Mason, DC; Bates, P (October 2011). "The accuracy of sequential aerial photography and SAR data for observing urban flood dynamics, a case study of the UK summer 2007 floods". Remote Sensing of Environment. 115 (10): 2536–2546. Bibcode:2011RSEnv.115.2536S. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2011.04.039 – via Science Direct.
  24. ^ "Nasa's Swot satellite will survey millions of rivers and lakes". BBC News. 2022-12-16. Retrieved 2024-05-15.
  25. ^ "Paul Bates | GreenBiz". www.greenbiz.com. Retrieved 2024-05-15.
  26. ^ "Announcing the NERC Impact Awards 2023 winners". www.ukri.org. 2023-11-30. Retrieved 2024-05-15.
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