The aim of SCIMAP-Flood is to help with the prioritisation of natural flood risk management or nature-based solutions within the catchment to increase their effectiveness. The tool identifies the origin of the water that contributes to the flood peaks within the catchment since mitigation actions in these locations will be more effective.
SCIMAP-Flood is part of the wider SCIMAP toolkit and hence follows the same theoretical approach based on the identification of critical source areas and the accumulation of probabilistic risks across the catchment. However, SCIMAP-Flood is the first SCIMAP toolbox component to handle the uncertainty in the inputs, specially in the range of rain storm maps and land cover information. The resulting maps therefore give information on the potential of a location for the implementation of a mitigation feature and on the confidence in that prediction. The detailed description of SCIMAP-Flood is available in this open access journal paper and there is an overview in the video on the SCIMAP website: SCIMAP video
SCIMAP-Flood: Example SCIMAP-Flood results for the River Eden catchment in Cumbria. The map shows where nature-based solutions for flood hazard mitigation are most likely to be effective.
Arkgarthdale Connectivity: Detail of the predictions of hydrological connectivity that is part of SCIMAP-Flood. This example is for the Arkengarthdale catchment in the Yorkshire Dales.
Woody debris dam that is one of the nature-based solution that can be spatially targeting with SCIMAP-Flood. This example is in the Pickering Beck catchment, North Yorkshire.
Woodland planting is one of the nature-based solution that can be spatially targeting with SCIMAP-Flood. This example is in the River Eden catchment, Cumbria.
Flood water storage ponds are one of the nature-based solution that can be spatially targeting with SCIMAP-Flood. This example is in the River Glenderamakin catchment, Cumbria.
For more information, please contact the IHRR: ihrr.admin@durham.ac.uk
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