1b2bd71c32cc585e9081f91228fbfec3 English dataset Elizabeth Bradshaw British Oceanographic Data Centre Marine Data Manager Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool Merseyside L3 5DA United Kingdom enquiries@bodc.ac.uk https://www.bodc.ac.uk/ pointOfContact 2021-12-20T06:31:16 MEDIN 3.1.1 urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326 OGP An improved database of coastal flooding in the United Kingdom from 1915 to 2016 British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048_surgewatch2.0 2018-05-18 publication 2017-02-06 creation 2021-04-21 revision EDMED6588 http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ Coastal flooding caused by extreme sea levels can produce devastating and wide-ranging consequences. The ‘SurgeWatch’ v1.0 database systematically documents and assesses the consequences of historical coastal flood events around the UK. The original database was inevitably biased due to the inconsistent spatial and temporal coverage of sea-level observations utilised. Therefore, we present an improved version integrating a variety of ‘soft’ data such as journal papers, newspapers, weather reports, and social media. SurgeWatch2.0 identifies 329 coastal flooding events from 1915 to 2016, a more than fivefold increase compared to the 59 events in v1.0. Moreover, each flood event is now ranked using a multi-level categorisation based on inundation, transport disruption, costs, and fatalities: from 1 (Nuisance) to 6 (Disaster). For the 53 most severe events ranked Category 3 and above, an accompanying event description based upon the Source-Pathway-Receptor-Consequence framework was produced. The database contains 57 files: 1 XLSX file, 54 PDF files and 1 CSV file. The first file is a spreadsheet (XLSX) containing the list of all 329 coastal flood events in the database categorised according to the severity scale that we devised. The second and third files are PDF documents containing the short commentaries for all Category 1 and 2 events. There are an additional 53 PDF files containing the longer event commentaries for events ranked Category 3 and higher. A final CSV file contains the digitised storm tracks for the 53 Category 3 and higher events. Each of these files is self-describing and is accompanied by extensive metadata. SurgeWatch v2.0 provides the most comprehensive and coherent historical record of UK coastal flooding. It is designed to be a resource for research, planning and management and education. Haigh et al. (2017) provides more detail. Collation of the database and the development of the website was funded through a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) impact acceleration grant. The database contributes to the objectives of UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) consortium project FLOOD Memory (EP/K013513/1). Unknown University of Southampton School of Ocean and Earth Science Unknown +44 (0)23 8059 2011 National Oceanography Centre, European Way Southampton Hampshire SO14 3ZH United Kingdom soes@noc.soton.ac.uk http://www.soes.soton.ac.uk/ owner Unknown University of Southampton School of Ocean and Earth Science Unknown +44 (0)23 8059 2011 National Oceanography Centre, European Way Southampton Hampshire SO14 3ZH United Kingdom soes@noc.soton.ac.uk http://www.soes.soton.ac.uk/ originator British Oceanographic Data Centre Director Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool Merseyside L3 5DA United Kingdom enquiries@bodc.ac.uk https://www.bodc.ac.uk/ custodian British Oceanographic Data Centre Director Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool Merseyside L3 5DA United Kingdom enquiries@bodc.ac.uk https://www.bodc.ac.uk/ distributor asNeeded Meteorological geographical features Elevation INSPIRE themes 2009-07-31 revision Other meteorological measurements Sea level SeaDataNet PDV 2021-05-19 revision unknown Vertical Coverages 2020-05-21 revision Marine Environmental Data and Information Network Natural Environment Research Council Designated Data Centres MEDIN metadata record availability 2012-01-11 revision otherRestrictions No limitations apply Data are freely available otherRestrictions No conditions apply English elevation oceans climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere -75.00 20.00 30.00 85.00 SeaVoX water bodies 2021-10-28 revision North Atlantic Ocean SeaVoX water bodies 2021-10-28 revision North Sea SeaVoX water bodies 2021-10-28 revision Irish Sea SeaVoX water bodies 2021-10-28 revision Bristol Channel SeaVoX water bodies 2021-10-28 revision English Channel 1915-01-01 2016-12-31 Delimited http://www.surgewatch.org Dataset Web Site information https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/published_data_library/catalogue/10.5285/481720c2-35bd-6c10-e053-6c86abc06bb3/ Published dataset - doi:10.5285/481720c2-35bd-6c10-e053-6c86abc06bb3 Haigh I.D.; Ozsoy O.; Wadey M.P.; Nicholls R.J.; Gallop S.L.; Wahl T.; Brown J. 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