Hannah Cloke

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Professor of Hydrology
- Co-Director of Water@伊人直播app with Dr Liz Stephens
- Research in modelling environmental processes and forecasting natural hazards
- Independent scientific advisor to government, forecasting and humanitarian agencies
- Postgraduate research supervision and undergraduate/postgraduate teaching
Areas of interest
- Forecasting floods, droughts, heatwaves, landslides and other natural hazards
- Early warning and evidence based decision-making for disaster risk management
- Global earth system modelling and applications of Numerical Weather Prediction
- Climate change impact on environmental processes, natural hazards and water resources
- Forecast verification and uncertainty analysis
- Science communication
Postgraduate supervision
Hannah currently supervises a number of postgraduates:
- : Pan-African heatwave health hazard forecasting. With ECMWF. Funded by a 伊人直播app regional bursary.
- Jeff Da Costa: Early Warning of hydrometeorological hazards on a local scale.
- Early warning of flash flood and landslide risk in S Asia. Funded by NERC SHEAR Programme. With ECMWF and British Geological Survey.
- Karolina Krupska: Projecting intensive rainfall events and their impact on bathing water quality in SW England. With Environment Agency.
- : Meteotsunamis in a changing climate: The future of coastal vulnerability & resilience. With Plymouth Marine Lab.
- Joy Ommer: Reducing risk to hydrological extremes with Nature-based Solutions. OPERANDUM project. With industry partner Kajo Services.
- Statistical analysis of ECMWF Ensemble to improve rainfall inputs in real-time flood forecasting systems. Forecast Department, ECMWF.
- Verification and diagnostics of ensemble-based earth-system models. Funded by a Wilkie Calvert Studentship at ECMWF.
- Global flood predictability, early warning and the communication of probabilistic forecasts. Funded by the Met Office.
- : Seamless seasonal to sub-seasonal forecasts of flood risk in River Nzioa Basin. Funded by a Commonwealth Scholarship .
- Understanding global flood hazard climatology for improved early flood warning. Funded by a Wilkie Calvert Studentship at ECMWF.
Hannah also co-supervises a number of other student projects:
- Global Real Time Flood Risk Forecasting. Open University/HR Wallingford.
- Extended range hydrometeorological forecasting for improved flood early warning to supporting earlier flood preparedness. Funded by NERC SHEAR.
- Developing a Quaternary Lake Basin Model for the Ponto-Caspian Basins (Black Sea, Caspian Sea). Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher.
- Multi-model data assimilation techniques for flood forecasting. Funded by EPSRC.
- : Implementing Natural Flood Risk Management. Funded by 伊人直播app regional scholarship.
- Climate variability and extended-range flood forecasting for the Peruvian Amazon. With Red Cross Climate Centre. Funded by NERC SCENARIO.