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Flood Risk from Extreme Events (FREE)
'Flood Risk from Extreme Events (FREE) is a NERC Research Programme investing in research to predict floods minutes to weeks and seasons to decades ahead.
The programme uses environmental science to investigate the physical processes
involved in generating extreme events, so they can be better forecasted.
The FREE programme will research what causes and propagates floods, so helping
to forecast and quantify flood risk, and inform our society about the likely
effects of climate change.
FREE brings researchers in the hydrological, meteorological, terrestrial and
coastal oceanography communities together in an integrated research programme
for the first time.
