High impact weather in a changing climate

CEH scientists who work on issues including air quality, drought, intense rainfall and climate change were among those at a three-day conference focusing on strategic issues relating to High Impact Weather and Climate. The event, organised by the Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS) and National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), took place from 6-8 July 2016.

It included a mixture of plenary sessions, workshops, and poster sessions to stimulate and foster new ideas around the three themes of the conference: observing, predicting and responding to high impact weather in a changing climate.

Welcoming 300+ delegates to the @RMetS @AtmosScience #HighImpactWeather and #climate conference pic.twitter.com/Cz11Xnbq24

— NCAScience (@AtmosScience) July 6, 2016

A number of CEH scientists took part in various workshops:

• Christine Braban - Small Sensors for Air Quality and Atmospheric Chemistry Measurements
• Toby Marthews - From weather to environmental prediction?
• Jamie Hannaford – Advances in drought monitoring and early warning
• Steve Cole - Flooding from Intense Rainfall: advances in science and practice and Modelling the impacts of weather on society: experiences from the Hazard Impact Model Project
• Christel Prudhomme – Making impact: a step forward towards climate change adaptation decisions
• David Fowler – The Future of Air Quality Monitoring
• Katie Smith – Drought planning and decision-making

Low cost fallacy.Why sensors are not so low cost -Christine Brabant @CEHScienceNews #highimpactweather @AtmosScience pic.twitter.com/8VPZQcAGSW

— Sarah Moller (@DrSazzle) July 6, 2016

Above: Dr Toby Marthews, a land surface modeller at CEH, presented in the workshop "From weather to environmental prediction?"

We also had posters presented at the event:

• Lucy Barker: Identifying historic streamflow droughts using standardised indicators
• Simon Parry: Systematic assessment of hydrological drought termination in observed and reconstructed river flow records
• Alison Rudd: A national-scale hydrological simulation of low flows and drought across Britain

Ready 4 2nd poster session @AtmosScience @RMetS #highimpactweather w/ @HistDroughtsUK hydro #drought identification pic.twitter.com/gxpZhrdBep

— Lucy Barker (@lucybarkerjane) July 7, 2016

Additional information

• The conference took place at the University of Manchester. See the conference website.
• Workshop agendas
• Book of abstracts
• See the full programme