weather@home and climateprediction.net at EGU General Assembly 2016
Posted on 21st April 2016
Weather@home and climateprediction.net are again significantly represented with both oral presentations and posters at the annual European Geophysical Union General Assembly, 17-22 April in Vienna. The Assembly provides a forum where geoscientists from all over the world can present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geoscience and is together […]
Raising Risk Awareness – new project under WWA
Posted on 18th April 2016
To extend the reach of and scope of our World Weather Attribution project we are engaging in a new project with CDKN: Raising Risk Awareness – Using climate science to inform post disaster Policy & practice in developing countries Today we understand the impact of human activities on global mean temperature very well; however, high-impact […]
Human influence on climate in the 2014 southern England winter floods and their impacts
Posted on 1st February 2016
Human-induced climate change increased the risk of severe storms like those that hit the south of England in the winter of 2013/14, causing devastating flooding and costing several people their lives. The preliminary results of this study have been on our website since the time the flooding happened , but now we have looked not […]
Man-made climate change as important as natural variability in December’s record rains
Posted on 14th January 2016
First results of our new study together with researchers from the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute show that human-induced climate change approximately doubled the chances of an exceptionally warm December in Central England, and significantly increased the chances of high rainfall further North. Ocean conditions in the Atlantic, and possibly the strong El Niño conditions now seen in […]
CPDN and the Paris agreement
Posted on 16th December 2015
The negotiations in Paris finished with an unexpectedly strong agreement to aim to limit warming to “well below” 2C, and even “to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5C”. In two articles in The Conversation and Carbon Brief, CPDN PI Myles Allen explores the implications of a 1.5C goal. Whether a 2C or […]