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Wilson is a Hydroclimatologist at UKCEH within the Hydrological Status and Outlooks Group. He is a researcher within the "Climate Change in the Arctic and North Atlantic Region and Impacts on the UK" (CANARI) project. He is also involved in research in the UK Hydrological Outlooks and the National Hydrological Monitoring Programme. Wilson's research interests include hydrological modelling, droughts and climate change impacts.
He is currently finishing a PhD at the Department of Meteorology, University of Reading focused on advancing understanding of the present day and future risk of extreme hydrological droughts in the UK. His PhD research seeks to demonstrate an approach to create plausible worst case droughts by combining observations, historic river flow reconstructions and large ensemble climate model simulations. He completed a postgraduate fellowship at the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST), producing a parliamentary briefing on Climate Adaptation for Nature.
Wilson has a BSc in Physical Geography and an MSc in Climate Change, both from University College London.
Chan, W.C.H., Arnell, N.W., Darch, G., Facer-Childs, K., Shepherd, T.G., Tanguy, M., van der Wiel, K., 2023. Current and future risk of unprecedented hydrological droughts in Great Britain. Journal of Hydrology 130074. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.130074
Chan, W.C.H and Wentworth J., 2022. Climate Adaptation for Nature. UK Parliament. https://post.parliament.uk/research-briefings/post-pn-0679/.
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