Flood and water run-off
Floods and challenges associated with water run-off threaten human life and assets worldwide. With increasingly wetter and wilder conditions caused by climate change, floods, water run-offs, and related challenges, such as landslides and erosion, will become even more significant.
Services related to floods and stormwater
- identification of potentially exposed waterways
- flood zone mapping
- flood calculations
- design of culvert/pipe solutions and security measures
- erosion protection (both conventional and nature-based solutions)
- instrumentation and monitoring; warning systems
- analysis of regional and local effects of climate change, and in particular, how natural hazards and associated risks will change in the future
- interdisciplinary research related to the effect water has on the risk of landslides and other types of natural hazards
- consequence assessment of the effects of climate change on stormwater management and waterways
- numerical modeling of flooding and mass transport
- security measures against flooding
NGI has the expertise for an interdisciplinary approach to floods and water run-off, including related consequences.
Research and development
The research effort at NGI related to floods and stormwater covers:
- effect of climate change
- mass transport
- erosion linked to floods
- accompanying consequences of floods and stormwater
Project examples
Erlend Moster Knudsen
Head of Section Climate Adaptation and Hydrodynamics erlend.moster.knudsen@ngi.no+47 400 48 664
Ingar Haug Steinholt
Project Engineer I Climate Adaptation and Hydrodynamics ingar.steinholt@ngi.no+47 415 46 060