Improving predictions of flash flooding

Published: July 23, 2013, 7 a.m.

This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: Alan Blyth and Lindsay Bennett from NERC's National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) explain how the work they're doing this summer in a project called the Convective Precipitation Experiment (COPE) may help predict flash flooding and avoid a re-run of the flooding that hit Boscastle, Cornwall in 2004.