Staff Profile:Dr Hannah Cloke

Name:

Dr Hannah Cloke

Job Title:

Associate Professor

Responsibilities:

• Research in Hydrological Processes and Modelling
• Undergraduate and Postgraduate Teaching
• University Hydrology Champion

Areas of Interest:

Large scale hydrology, climate impact on flood hazard and droughts, ensemble flood forecasting, catchment hydrological processes and streamflow generation mechanisms, forecast verification techniques, sensitivity and uncertainty analysis, verifying atmospheric reanalysis with river discharge.

Postgraduate Supervision:

Hannah is keen to discuss proposals for postgraduate research in the study of the following topics:

• Large scale hydrology and land surface modelling
• Flood forecasting and warning
• Drought monitoring and forecasting
• Climate impact on hydrology
• Numerical modelling of riparian and hillslope hydrological processes

Current students

Brandon Parkes Developing a risk-based and participatory approach to reducing the uncertainty in modelling climate impact on flood inundation. King's College London (ESRC/NERC funded)

Chris Sampson Uncertainty in future flood risk for insurance markets. NERC-CASE University of Bristol. Principal supervisor: Prof Paul Bates.

Completed

Jorge Peña Arancibia (2013) Pantropical modelling of the impact of land use change on water quantity provision and low flows. King's College London.

James Porter (2011) The Extreme Flood Outline - Co-Producing Flood Risk Mapping and Spatial Planning in England. King's College London.

Research groups / Centres:

• Earth System Science Research Group
• Walker Institute
• Department of Meteorology

Key Facts:

Hannah Cloke is a hydrologist and physical geographer specializing in land surface modelling, flood forecasting and catchment hydrology. She works closely with the Environment Agency, the Met Office, the Flood Forecasting Centre and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts as well as a wide range of other national and international partners. She recently advised government on the Jan/Feb 2014 floods crisis and provided substantial expert commentary in the media. 

Hannah obtained a BSc (1999) and PhD (2003) in Geography from the University of Bristol. She then worked as a Research Associate at the European Commission Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy, working on the European Flood Alert System and then from 2004 lectured at in the Department of Geography at King’s College London. In 2012 she was appointed Associate Professor of Hydrology at the University of Reading; a joint post between the Department of Geography and Environmental Science and the Department of Meteorology.

Hannah is currently a member of the of the Environment Agency-DEFRA R&D flood science programme advisory group. She is a member of the NERC Peer Review Panel C, Floods theme coordinator for the International Hydrological Programme (IHP): FRIEND network, and a committee member of the EGU Hydrology section: Catchment hydrology. She is on the editorial board of the journals Meteorological Applications, Hydrology and Earth System Science and Hydrology Research, and is guest editor for Hydrological Processes.

Hannah is an active member of the HEPEX project and recently served on the British Hydrological Society committee.

 

Current Research projects:

• Project SINATRA: Susceptibility of catchments to Intense RAinfall and flooding. NERC Flooding From Intense Rainfall Programme. Hannah is Project Director of this large consortium grant. 2013-2017. See: Flooding From Intense Rainfall
• IMPETUS. Improving Predictions of Drought for User Decision-Making. NERC UK Droughts and Water Scarcity Programme. 2014-2017.
• DEFRA Catchment Modelling call - Developing more effective models for managing water from the local to the national scale from a risk and pollution perspective. Consortium led by CEH with Atkins, ADAS and the James Hutton Institute. 2014.
• Developing Enhanced impact MOdels for integration with Next generation NWP and climate outputs (DEMON). NERC – Storm Risk Mitigation Programme consortium grant, with University of Bristol, University of Reading, NOC, UK Met office.
• NWP water cycle verification with river discharge observations. 2011-2014. in collaboration with European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).

 

Recently completed research projects:

• Improving the communication and use of ensemble flood predictions. 2011-2012. ESRC follow on grant with King's College London.
• Novel Early flood Warning System using grand ensemble weather predictions. (2009-2010) Innovation China-UK.
• Europeanizing Flood Forecasting and the Geographies of Risk and Science in the EU (2008-2011) ESRC
• Uncertainty Assessments of Flood Inundation Impacts: Using spatial climate change scenarios to drive an ensemble of distributed models for extreme conditions. (2007-2010) NERC FREE (Flood Risk from Extreme Events) programme.

Recent Publications:

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Number of items: 11.

2014

• Mason, D. C., Giustarini, L., Garcia-Pintado, J. and Cloke, H. L. (2014) Detection of flooded urban areas in high resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar images using double scattering. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and GeoInformation, 28. pp. 150-159. ISSN 0303-2434 doi: 10.1016/j.jag.2013.12.002

2013

• Wetterhall, F., Pappenberger, F., Alfieri, L., Cloke, H. L., Thielen-del Pozo, J., Balabanova, S., Daňhelka, J., Vogelbacher, A., Salamon, P., Carrasco, I., Cabrera-Tordera, A. J., Corzo-Toscano, M., Garcia-Padilla, M., Garcia-Sanchez, R. J., Ardilouze, C., Jurela, S., Terek, B., Csik, A., Casey, J., Stankūnavičius, G., Ceres, V., Sprokkereef, E., Stam, J., Anghel, E., Vladikovic, D., Alionte Eklund, C., Hjerdt, N., Djerv, H., Holmberg, F., Nilsson, J., Nyström, K., Sušnik, M., Hazlinger, M. and Holubecka, M. (2013) Forecasters priorities for improving probabilistic flood forecasts. Hydology and Earth System Sciences, 17. pp. 4389-4399. ISSN 1607-7938 doi: 10.5194/hess-17-4389-2013
• Parkes, B. L., Cloke, H. L., Pappenberger, F., Neal, J. and Demeritt, D. (2013) Reducing inconsistencies in point observations of maximum flood inundation level. Earth Interactions, 17 (6). pp. 1-27. ISSN 1087-3562 doi: 10.1175/2012EI000475.1
• Dutra , E., Magnusson, L., Wetterhall, F., Cloke, H. L., Balsamo, G., Boussetta, S. and Pappenberger, F. (2013) The 2010-2011 drought in the Horn of Africa in ECMWF reanalysis and seasonal forecast products. International Journal of Climatology, 33 (7). pp. 1720-1729. ISSN 0899-8418 doi: 10.1002/joc.3545
• Souvignet, M., Laux, P., Freer, J., Cloke, H., Thinh, D. Q., Thuc, T., Cullmann, J., Nauditt, A., Flugel, W.-A., Kunstmann, H. and Ribbe, L. (2013) Recent climatic trends and linkages to river discharge in Central Vietnam. Hydrological Processes. ISSN 0885-6087 doi: 10.1002/hyp.9693
• Demeritt, D., Nobert, S. , Cloke, H. and Pappenberger, F. (2013) The European Flood Alert System and the communication, perception, and use of ensemble predictions for operational flood risk management. Hydrological Processes, 27 (1). pp. 147-157. ISSN 0885-6087 doi: 10.1002/hyp.9419
• Cloke, H. L., Wetterhall, F., He, Y., Freer, J. E. and Pappenberger, F. (2013) Modelling climate impact on floods with ensemble climate projections. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 139 (671 part B). pp. 282-297. ISSN 1477-870X doi: 10.1002/qj.1998
• Parkes, , B. L., Wetterhall, F., Pappenberger, F. , He, , Y., Malamud, B. D. and Cloke, H. (2013) Assessment of a 1 hour gridded precipitation dataset to drive a hydrological model: a case study of the summer 2007 floods in the Upper Severn, UK. Hydrology Research, 44 (1). pp. 89-105. ISSN 0029-1277 doi: 10.2166/nh.2011.025 (Vol 44 No 1 pp 89–105)
• Ye, J., He, Y., Pappenberger, F., Cloke, H. L., Manful, D. Y. and Li, Z. (2013) Evaluation of ECMWF medium-range ensemble forecasts of precipitation for river basins. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. ISSN 1477-870X doi: 10.1002/qj.2243 (In Press)
• He, Y., Pappenberger, F., Manful, D., Cloke, H. L., Bates, P., Wetterhall, F. and Parkes, B. (2013) Flood inundation dynamics and socioeconomic vulnerability under environmental change. In: Hossain, F. (ed.) Climate Vulnerability. Elsevier Sciences. (In Press)
• Cloke, H. L., Pappenberger, F., Thielen, J. and Thiemig, V. (2013) Operational flood forecasting in Europe. In: Wainwright, J. and Mulligan, M. (eds.) Environmental Modelling: Finding Simplicity in Complexity. Wiley-Blackwell, New York, pp. 315-434. ISBN 9780470749111

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Further Publications:

Bogner K., Cloke HL, Pappenberger F, de Roo A, Thielen J (2011) Improving The evaluation of hydrological multi-model forecast performance in the Upper Danube Catchment. International Journal of River Basin Management. DOI:10.1080/15715124.2011.625359 [pdf]

De Roo A, Thielen J, Salamon P, Bogner K, Nobert S, Cloke, HL, Demeritt D, Younis, J., Kalas, M., Bodis, K., Muraro D., Pappenberger, F., (2011) Quality Control, Validation and User Feedback of the European Flood Alert System (EFAS), International Journal of Digital Earth [pdf]

Pappenberger F., Cloke HL, Persson A, Demeritt D (2011) On forecast
(in)consistency in a hydro-meteorological chain: curse or blessing? Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 15, 2391-2400

Cloke HL & Hannah DM (2011) Large-scale hydrology: advances in understanding processes, dynamics and models from beyond river basin to global scale. Hydrological Processes. Doi: 10.1002/hyp.8059 Preface to Special Issue.

Pappenberger, F., Bogner K., Wetterhall, F., He, Y., Cloke, H.L., Thielen, J., (2011) Forecast convergence score: a forecaster's approach to analysing hydro-meteorological forecast systems, Advances in Geosciences doi:10.5194/adgeo-29-27-2011

Wetterhall F, He Y. Cloke HL, Pappenberger F (2011) Effects of temporal resolution of input precipitation on the performance of hydrological forecasting. Advances in Geosciences doi:10.5194/adgeo-29-21-2011

Bao H-J, Zhao L-N, He Y, Li Z-J, Wetterhall F, Cloke HL, Pappenberger F and Manful D (2011) Coupling ensemble weather predictions based on TIGGE database with Grid-Zinanjiang model for flood forecast. Advances in Geosciences , 29. pp. 61-67. [PDF link: http://adv-geosci.net/29/61/2011/adgeo-29-61-2011.pdf]

Pappenberger, F., Zappa, M. Smith, P.J. Ramos, M.H. Cloke, H.L., He, Y., Wetterhall, F., Rossa, A., Schaake, J., Thielen, J. , 2010, Reply to HESS Opinions "Ensemble, uncertainty and flood prediction" by Dance, S. and Zou, Q.P., Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussion , 7, 3591-3611 [pdf]

Cloke HL, Jeffers C, Wetterhall F, Pappenberger F, Byrne T, Lowe J (2010) Climate impacts on river flow: projections for the Medway catchment UK with UKCP09 and CATCHMOD. Hydrological Processes. [pdf]

Pappenberger F, Cloke HL, Balsamo G-P, Oki T (2010) Global runoff routing with the hydrological component of the ECMWF NWP system . International Journal of Climatology. 30: 2155-2174 [pdf]

He Y, Wetterhall F, Bao H, Cloke HL, Li Z, Pappenberger F, Hu Y, Manful D, Huang Y (2010) Ensemble forecasting using TIGGE for the July-September 2008 floods in the Upper Huai catchment: a case study Atmospheric Science Letters. 11(2), 132-138. [pdf]

Demeritt D, Nobert S, Cloke H L, Pappenberger F (2010) Challenges in communicating and using ensembles in operational flood forecasting. Meteorological Applications. 17, (2), 209-222. DOI: 10.1002/met.194 [pdf]

Nobert S, Demeritt D, Cloke HL (2010) Informing operational flood management with ensemble predictions: lessons from Sweden. Journal of Flood Risk Management 3 72-79 [pdf]

Cloke HL et al. Progress in the implementation of Hydrological Ensemble Prediction Systems (HEPS) in Europe
for operational flood forecasting. ECMWF Newsletter No. 121 - Autumn 2009.

Cloke HL and Pappenberger F (2009) Ensemble Flood Forecasting: A Review. Journal of Hydrology 375 613-626. [pdf]
[Also see ECMWF technical memorandum below and continuous updates webpage. ]

He Y, Wetterhall, F, Cloke HL, Pappenberger F, Wilson M, Freer J, McGregor G. (2009) Tracking the uncertainty in flood alerts driven by grand ensemble weather predictions. Meteorological Applications.16(1) Special Issue: Flood Forecasting and Warning. p 91-101 [pdf]

Cloke HL and Pappenberger F (2008) Operational Flood Forecasting: a review of ensemble approaches. European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts Technical Memorandum 574.

Pappenberger F, Bartholmes J, Thielen J, Cloke HL, Buizza R, de Roo A (2008) New dimensions in early flood warning across the globe using grand-ensemble weather predictions. Geophysical Research Letters. 35, L10404 ISSN 1944-8007 doi: 10.1029/2008GL033837 [pdf]

Cloke HL, Pappenberger, F. and Renaud, J-P (2008). Multi-Method Global Sensitivity Analysis (MMGSA) for Modelling Floodplain Hydrological Processes. Hydrological Processes. 22 1660-1674. [pdf]

Cloke HL and Pappenberger F. (2008) Evaluating forecasts of extreme events for hydrological applications: an approach for screening unfamiliar performance measures. Meteorological Applications.15(1)pp. 181-197. ISSN 1469-8080 doi:10.1002/met.58  [pdf]

Renaud J.-P., Cloke HL and Weiler M. (2007) Comment on ''An assessment of the tracer-based approach 1 to quantifying groundwater contributions to streamflow'', by J. P. Jones, E. A. Sudicky, A. E. Brookfield, and Y.-J. Park (2006) Water Resources Research 42, W02407, doi:10.1029/2005WR004130. Water Resources Research.

Demeritt, D., Cloke HL Pappenberger, F, Thielen, J., Bartholmes, J. and Ramos, M.-H. (2007) Ensemble Predictions and Perceptions of Risk, Uncertainty, and Error in Flood Forecasting. Environmental Hazards 7 115-127 [pdf]

Cloke HL, Renaud, J-P, McDonnell, J.J and Anderson, M.G. (2006). Response to comment by Jozsef Szilagyi on ''Using numerical modelling to evaluate the capillary fringe groundwater ridging hypothesis of streamflow generation'' (Journal of Hydrology 316 (2006) 141-162). Journal of Hydrology. 329, 730- 732

Renaud, J-P., Cloke HL and Anderson, M.G. (2006) A new coupled model for studying the hyporheic zone and hillslope floodplain interactions. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Hydroinformatics. HIC 2006, Nice, FRANCE.

Cloke HL, Anderson, M.G. and Renaud, J-P (2006) Development of a modelling methodology for the investigation or riparian hydrological processes. Hydrological Processes. 20(1) 85-107

Cloke HL, Anderson M.G., McDonnell, J.J and Renaud, J.-P. (2006) Using numerical modelling to evaluate the capillary fringe groundwater ridging hypothesis of streamflow generation. Journal of Hydrology 316, 141-162.

Cloke HL, Renaud, J-P., Claxton, A. J., McDonnell, J. J., Anderson, M. G., Blake, J. R., & Bates, P.D. (2003) The effect of model configuration on modelled hillslope-riparian interactions. Journal of Hydrology, 279, 167-181

Claxton, A.J., Bates, P.D. and Cloke HL, (2003) Mixing of hillslope, river and alluvial groundwaters in lowland floodplains. Groundwater, 41 (7), 926-936. Part of special Issue "The Significance of Ground Water in Small Watershed Studies"

Renaud, J-P., Cloke HL, Wang, Y., Anderson, M. G., Wilkinson, P., Lloyd, D. (2003) Simulation numerque d'ecoulements en miliux poreux avec l'equation de Richards. Revue Europeenne des Elements Finis, 12, (2-3), 203-220.

Cloke HL (2003) Modelling Riparian Hydrology and Streamflow Generation, Unpublished PhD Thesis, University of Bristol.