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Without further ado, this is the Naked Scientists.

Hello, welcome to the Naked Scientist podcast, the program that brings you the biggest

breakthroughs and talks to the major movers and shakers in the worlds of science, technology and medicine.

I'm Chris Smith, and today, in partnership with UK research and innovation, we're exploring attempts to forecast and prevent flooding.

Thank you. flooding. Each year floods affect more people worldwide than any other natural hazard,

affecting homes, national local infrastructure and the environment. So today we're going to examine what flooding is, why it happens,

and what can be done to better manage it. Later on, we'll be finding out why flooding is so

dangerous and how computers can help to forecast these extreme weather events and their impacts.

But first, beginning with the basics of the various forms flooding can take, including the

contributions of storm surges from the sea, here's the former Met Office and BBC weather forecaster,

Peter Gibbs. They're almost always weather driven, unless it's something like a burst water main

or something like that, but they're pretty much always due to an excess of rainfall.

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