Scientists have been investigating the effects of a 7m-high wave
travelling up the Thames, using computer simulations.
The wave was produced by a "virtual storm" as part of a £6.5m project
at the UK Met Office.

Researchers say the work is crucial to our understanding of how storms
cause dangerous flooding around the UK and the quest to improve
forecasting.

More at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4880126.stm

wrote:
Scientists have been investigating the effects of a 7m-high wave
travelling up the Thames, using computer simulations.
The wave was produced by a "virtual storm" as part of a £6.5m project
at the UK Met Office.

Researchers say the work is crucial to our understanding of how storms
cause dangerous flooding around the UK and the quest to improve
forecasting.

More at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4880126.stm


They state ...

"This event that we deliberately created would have probably overtopped
the barrier and would have overtopped most of the defences all the way
up the river,"

(followed by a caution that it was a very low probability that such a
wave would happen)

and conclude ...

"The Environment Agency stressed that the latest simulations show that
London is adequately protected by its flood defences."

6,5 million GBP well spent then.
Step one: create a situation which breaches the defences.
Step two: pronounce the defences are therefore adequate.
Step three: kerching!

--
Gianna

On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 13:21:44 +0100, Gianna
adminatbuchandashmeteodotorgdotuk wrote:


"The Environment Agency stressed that the latest simulations show that
London is adequately protected by its flood defences."

6,5 million GBP well spent then.
Step one: create a situation which breaches the defences.
Step two: pronounce the defences are therefore adequate.
Step three: kerching!

This sounds very much like like a quote from the Governer of Louisiana
just after they did a similar simulation on New Orleans, a couple of
years ago...

--
Dave

Gianna adminatbuchandashmeteodotorgdotuk wrote:



6,5 million GBP well spent then.

I think you missed the phrase "part of".

--
Graham Davis
Bracknell

"Gianna" adminatbuchandashmeteodotorgdotuk wrote in message
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wrote:

Researchers say the work is crucial to our understanding of how
storms
cause dangerous flooding around the UK and the quest to improve
forecasting. More at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4880126.stm


They state ...

"This event that we deliberately created would have probably
overtopped the barrier and would have overtopped most of the defences
all the way up the river,"

(followed by a caution that it was a very low probability that such a
wave would happen)

and conclude ...

"The Environment Agency stressed that the latest simulations show that
London is adequately protected by its flood defences."

6,5 million GBP well spent then.
Step one: create a situation which breaches the defences.
Step two: pronounce the defences are therefore adequate.
Step three: kerching!

--
Gianna

Absolutely, it's far better not to know anything about these events and
just react when it happens, after all nobody is going to say "Why
weren't we warned".

Might be nice to know the full scope of the project first, it does
mention 'around the UK'.

Tom

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Scientists have been..... whateversnipped

If you have any clout at the BBC, can you:

1. Get Andrew Lane sacked?
2. Do something about the weatherforecasts?
3. When -on the rare occasions that the Atlantic chart is shown, can
you ask the presenter to get out of the effing way of it?
4. Can we have an extensive overview of the Atlantic from the USA and
Canada to The Iberian Peninsula and Scandinavia?
5. Bring the Weatherview down to a reasonable and regular viewing time?
6. Get the chaps and chapettes doing the weather view to actually
concentrate on the weather elsewhere instead of an extended view of the
UK porridge map?
7. Get Andew Lane sacked?

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Scientists have been investigating the effects of a 7m-high wave
travelling up the Thames, using computer simulations.
The wave was produced by a "virtual storm" as part of a £6.5m project
at the UK Met Office.

Researchers say the work is crucial to our understanding of how storms
cause dangerous flooding around the UK and the quest to improve
forecasting.

More at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4880126.stm



Good idea, those 7m waves are suging up the thames all the time, one day we
could be unlucky and cop one.

Now let's work this out there's a film in this somewhere Ah yes
Seven tides for Seven metres.

Hey that's nearly a million per metre lets be grateful they never based it
on the famous spring neap superduper 20 metre mexican wave that appears when
Charlton play at home.

The wave was produced by a "virtual storm" as part of a £6.5m project
at the UK Met Office.

£6.5 million to confirm the f--king obvious! Who is paying for that?
Us?

Jack

wrote:

The wave was produced by a "virtual storm" as part of a £6.5m project
at the UK Met Office.

£6.5 million to confirm the f--king obvious! Who is paying for that?
Us?

Also didn't notice "part of"?

--
Graham Davis
Bracknell

Graham P Davis wrote:
wrote:

The wave was produced by a "virtual storm" as part of a £6.5m project
at the UK Met Office.

£6.5 million to confirm the f--king obvious! Who is paying for that?
Us?

Also didn't notice "part of"?

As in:
"The wave was produced ..." as part of a £6.5m project financed by
cutting useless little bits of more interesting weather items such as
Weatherview as well as closing down the regional weather centres.."?

Right. I'm all in favour of expanding the programme by saving on the
salary of a certain BBC producer -or is his job description
"non-producer"?