FUTURE-STORMS: Quantifying uncertainties and identifying drivers of future changes in weather extremes from convection-permitting model ensembles

Lead Research Organisation: Newcastle University
Department Name: Sch of Engineering

Abstract

Climate change is arguably the biggest challenge facing people this century, and changes to the intensity and frequency of climatic and hydrologic extremes will have large impacts on our communities. We use climate models to tell us about what weather in the future will be like and these computer models are based on fundamental physical laws and complicated mathematical equations which necessarily simplify real processes. One of the simplifications that really seems to matter is that of deep convection (imagine the type of processes that cause a thunderstorm). However, computers are so powerful now that we are able to produce models that work on smaller and smaller scales, and recently we have developed models which we call "convection-permitting" where we stop using these simplifications of deep convection. These "convection-permitting" models are not necessarily better at simulating mean rainfall or rainfall occurrence but they are much better at simulating heavy rainfall over short time periods (less than one day) which cause flooding, in particular flash-flood events. They are also better at simulating the increase in heavy rainfall with temperature rise that we can observe; therefore we are more confident in their projections of changes in heavy rainfall for the future.

A few "convection-permitting" modelling experiments have now been run for different parts of the world but all of these have been over small regions, only the same size as the UK, or smaller. All of the experiments so far have concentrated on rainfall and none have examined how "convection-permitting" models might improve the simulation of other types of extreme weather such as hail, lightning or windstorms. In fact we know very little about how these types of extremes might change in the future. We also have no idea of the uncertainty in our experiments in terms of our predictions of future changes as we have only run one model simulation in each region - this is not useful for planning climate adaptation strategies where we really need to understand the uncertainties in our future predictions so we can plan for them.

In FUTURE-STORMS we are running these "convection-permitting" models over a very large area (the whole of Europe) and we are comparing models from two different climate modelling teams at the UK Met Office and ETH Zurich in Switzerland. In addition to this we are now able to run a number of different climate models over the same region, which allows us to assess some of the uncertainties in future changes to heavy rainfall and other storm-related extreme weather. This will let us explore how heavy rainfall might change across Europe and what might be causing this. It will also allow us to look at whether these new models are able to simulate other types of extreme weather like hail, lightning and windstorms which have a huge impact on Europe, and how these might change in the future.

Ultimately, we need better information on how extreme weather events might change in the future on which to make adaptation decisions and FUTURE-STORMS intends to provide this important advance, alongside translating this information into useful tools and metrics for use in climate change adaptation.

Planned Impact

FUTURE-STORMS will use an ensemble of convection-permitting climate models (CPMs) to quantify, for the first time, the role of large-scale dynamics, thermodynamical moist processes, and local-scale (storm) dynamics in contributing to uncertainty in precipitation extremes and other storm-related extreme weather in Europe; thus providing more robust projections and tools with which practitioners can use CPM outputs. This will include the first examination of the simulation of hail, lightning and wind-storms by CPMs at km-scales and on climate timescales and will provide the first projections of these variables. This will lead to both improved projections of extreme weather associated with future storms and the development of new tools for European climate adaptation. FUTURE-STORMS will produce a report on predictions of change in storm-related weather extremes (extreme precipitation, hail, lightning and windstorms) for selected European cities which can be used to update national climate scenarios and give better predictions of the probability of infrastructure failure - needed for design of adaptation strategies.

The understanding of model deficiencies in the simulation of high-impact weather, particularly for local-scale convective type events will provide a key resource for the international climate modelling community. The MOHC anticipate benefits from high resolution in terms of potentially providing more accurate projections of changes in other high impact events which will inform the next generation of climate models. Knowledge transfer visits are proposed with international partners to facilitate the flow of information and ideas between researchers in order to maximise the benefits of the links developed. Through collaboration with the UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP) we aim to bring together climate modelling and numerical weather forecasting communities and the end users of climate information in two joint workshops. Suggested improvements and specific outputs will be sought from end users in conjunction with the climate modelling community, focusing on those that are both viable and best meet user needs. Engaging these end users in a workshop in the first year of the project will maximise the potential for this community to contribute to the research agenda and continued communication through a website and newsletters will seek to develop an active community. The delivery of outputs over the proposed website will ensure users can derive benefit from the project outputs.

The work will benefit a wide range of bodies engaged in building adaptive capacity to the risk of increased flash-floods, such as the Environment Agency who believe that the proposed research is particularly important for sewer design and managing urban flooding, and those with responsibility for water resource planning and with obligations under the EU Floods Directive which aims to prevent and limit floods and their damaging effects on human health, the environment, infrastructure and property. The research will provide more robust projections for government departments and agencies engaged in determining flood policy and for identifying and managing flood risk across Europe.

The re(insurance) industry have a particular interest in changes in hail and windstorms. There are growing insurance claims from extreme weather events, and hail and windstorms provide the largest insurance hazard in Europe (even greater than flooding). Improved, CPM projections of future high-impact weather will enable each of these users to better plan for future changes. The re(insurance industry, through our project partner WillisTowersWatson, would use outputs from this project to validate their catastrophe model and better advise their clients on potential impacts of climate change on future extreme weather.

Ultimately, this research will enable future policies and practice to better reflect the risks associated with changes to extreme weather.

Publications

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Description The project has produced new knowledge on future climate extremes from state-of-the-art climate models.
1. We find that the representation of wind gusts over Europe is improved by a high-resolution climate model (2.2km) compared with a global climate model (25km) due to a better representation of atmospheric processes in windstorms. We have diagnosed the types of cyclones that account for the most damaging windstorms in the simulations of present-day climate and find that these storm types increase in the simulation of future climate. We conclude that the high-resolution model adds value in the representation of severe surface wind gusts and can provide improved input for impact models compared to standard, coarse-resolution models.
2. Analysis of the high-resolution models has also shown that in future, lightning across Europe could have different regional and seasonal patterns. Results so far show mixed signals with an overall decrease across most of Europe, with increases in northern areas in summer, and in southern Europe in autumn.
3. Significant new results from the high-resolution climate model simulations show that heavy precipitation events increase in the future, particularly for slow-moving storms which are expected to become more clustered in time and more frequent. A new approach to understanding heavy precipitation changes that uses short-range weather forecasting approaches for severe storms has been applied in the context of climate change. This shows a longer duration of extreme precipitation events arising from slower storm movement in the future and suggests a large increase in storms with the potential for high precipitation totals with global warming. This is important as these slow moving storms could lead to serious flooding in the future but have been relatively little studied to date.
4.Using a km-scale model explicitly resolving convection across Europe, we look for changes in lightning and hail with respect to climate change under RCP8.5 conditions. The simulation suggests more convection by 2100.
a. Our physical ice-based lightning scheme indicates a highly altered lightning climatology, with decreases in lightning strikes in some regions despite more convective storms. A northward shift in favourable weather regimes leads to increases in lightning at higher latitudes, and triggers more thunderstorms over the Alps, but lightning decreases in lower terrain and over the sea. The extension of the lightning season and the complex regional patterns of change can be explained by region-specific drivers including general increases in instability, which is partly limited by convective inhibition, along with huge increases in melting level height, resulting in less cloud ice.
b. Severe hail potential in Europe maximizes over land in summer, and over the Mediterranean in autumn, based on 2.2km grid hindcast with 20 years simulation time. Investigation on future changes in severe hail potential is still in progress, but preliminary results suggest a decline in the frequency, whilst uncertainty remains about the significant severe hailstorms.
Exploitation Route The findings will be taken forward as part of the EEAs next report on extreme weather events under climate change in Europe
Sectors Agriculture

Food and Drink

Energy

Environment

Transport

 
Description We have provided evidence on future changes in hourly precipitation extremes to the Third UK Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA3). This was included in the evidence report published in 2022 which will audit national level risk and inform the National Adaptation Plan.
Sector Environment
Impact Types Policy & public services

 
Description British Hydrological Society President
Geographic Reach Europe 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact BHS president
 
Description Director of the NERC One Planet Doctoral Training Programme
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact ONE Planet DTP delivering a transdisclipinary training environment to train future leaders in environmental science and application connected to climate change.
 
Description Environment Agency Expert panel for Boosting Action in Surface Water: Plausible Extremes
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
 
Description Evidence to 3rd UK Climate Change Risk Assessment on hourly rainfall extremes
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL https://www.theccc.org.uk/publications/third-uk-climate-change-risk-assessment/
 
Description External Examiner for MSc in Water Science Policy and Management, Oxford University
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Member of BEIS Science Expert Group
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
 
Description Member of Institute of Civil Engineers Flooding Community Advisory Board, UK
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
 
Description Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Programme Science Review Group
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
 
Description NERC E4 DTP External Advisory Panel, Edinburgh University - Hayley Fowler
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description NERC PRC Panel B Chair
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Prioritisation Task Group (Environment Agency Flood Hydrology Road Map)
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact not known yet
 
Description Strategic Advisory Board for RESAS Science
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
 
Description Weather Advisory Task Force for Network Rail
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact WATF made 5 recommendations which will transform the rail industry
URL https://www.networkrail.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Network-Rail-Weather-Advisory-Task-Force-Fi...
 
Description cco-chair of net zero task force in Newcastle
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Membership of a guideline committee
Impact Released climate change net zero action plan in September 2020. Newcastle named a global 'climate leader' by the CDP in Nov 2020. The city is one of only four places in the UK to receive the top "A" grade from international climate research provider CDP, and one of only 88 globally. CDP scores cities across four consecutive levels which represent the steps cities move through as they progress towards environmental stewardship. The levels are: Disclosure, Awareness, Management and Leadership. Over 830 cities disclosed their climate data through CDP in 2020 and in order to score an A rating a city must have a city-wide emissions inventory, have set an emissions reduction target, published a climate action plan and have completed a climate adaptation plan to demonstrate how it will tackle climate hazards now and in the future.
URL https://www.newcastle.gov.uk/our-city/climate-change-newcastle/net-zero-newcastle-2030-action-plan
 
Description ACCELERATE
Amount £100,000 (GBP)
Organisation Western Power Distribution 
Sector Private
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2022 
End 12/2022
 
Description Climate Services-NOW
Amount £5,000,000 (GBP)
Organisation Government of the UK 
Department Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start  
 
Description FUTURE-DRAINAGE: Ensemble climate change rainfall estimates for sustainable drainage
Amount £250,000 (GBP)
Funding ID NE/S017348/1 
Organisation Natural Environment Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 02/2019 
End 01/2020
 
Description GCRF Living Deltas Hub
Amount £15,287,248 (GBP)
Funding ID NE/S008926/1 
Organisation Natural Environment Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 02/2019 
End 05/2024
 
Description NSFGEO-NERC: HUrricane Risk Amplification and Changing North Atlantic Natural disasters (Huracan)
Amount £2,366,159 (GBP)
Funding ID NE/W009587/1 
Organisation Natural Environment Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2023 
End 02/2027
 
Description ONE Planet NERC Doctoral Training Programme
Amount £6,000,000 (GBP)
Organisation Natural Environment Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 08/2019 
End 09/2024
 
Description PYRAMID: Platform for dYnamic, hyper-resolution, near-real time flood Risk AssessMent Integrating repurposed and novel Data sources
Amount £792,200 (GBP)
Funding ID NE/V00378X/1 
Organisation Natural Environment Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 07/2020 
End 08/2023
 
Description Research Hub for Decarbonised Adaptable and Resilient Transport Infrastructures (DARe)
Amount £10,568,485 (GBP)
Funding ID EP/Y024257/1 
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 08/2023 
End 03/2027
 
Description STORMY-WEATHER: Plausible storm hazards in a future climate
Amount £353,956 (GBP)
Funding ID NE/V004166/1 
Organisation Natural Environment Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 07/2020 
End 08/2023
 
Title New method for modelling extremes accounting for spatial dependence 
Description Steven Chan has worked with Ben Youngman at Exeter University to develop a new method for modelling extremes accounting for spatial dependence in the data. As part of this approach a spatial model has been developed to allow all the UKCP 2.2km extremes data to be fitted at once. This has the benefit of producing much more robust estimates of high return period (i.e. very rare) events. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2020 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact None yet 
 
Title Tool to detect sting-jets in windstorms 
Description We have developed a tool to detect sting-jets within windstorms as well as windstorms that have the potential to produce sting-jets. Sting-jets are a mesoscale phenomenon that produce extremely damaging wind gusts and require high-resolution models to adequately represent them. This is a low-cost approach that may be applied to high-resolution climate simulations and has potential to be used by forecasters to help with predicting windstorms that may have an extreme impact. Existing approaches to detect sting-jets are not feasible for climate analyses as they require high amounts of output which is very costly to store. This low-cost alternative allows for climatological analyses of sting-jets in high-resolution climate simulations. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2020 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact This is a new method but could have future impact in forecasting. 
 
Title Dimensionless hyetographs and statistics of annual-maximum rainfall events in Great Britain, from historical rain gauge records 
Description This dataset contains over 72,000 event hyetographs associated with rainstorms that contain Annual Maximum rainfall (AMAX) values for durations between 5-min and 24-hr for a set of ~1,300 rain gauges in Great Britain. The record length and completeness varies on a gauge-by-gauge basis, the median record length is 19 years and the processed record ends in 06/2018. Note that a rainstorm may have a different duration to the associated AMAX value, e.g., a 24-hr AMAX total may be caused by an 18.25-hr event. Further note that multiple AMAX totals may be embedded within a single rainstorm, e.g., Storm Desmond can be associated with the 2-, 3-, 6-, 12- and 24-hr AMAX totals for 2009 recorded at Honister Pass. Each hyetograph is accompanied by summary statistics corresponding to the underlying rainstorm and associated AMAX totals. This dataset enables the study of the temporal characteristics of rainfall as well as more general studies regarding the climatology of AMAX-causing events in GB. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? Yes  
URL https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/3d20ce5a-9115-4ad3-a55c-d51d66863757
 
Title Extreme Precipitation Potential and Slow-moving Extreme Precipitation Potential 
Description Extreme Precipitation Potential (EPP) and Slow-moving Extreme Precipitation Potential (SEPP) are described in Kahraman et al. paper "Quasi-stationary intense rainstorms spread across Europe under climate change". File names as "identifier+YYYY+MM+.nc". EPP count per month for current (identifier=hvpraj) and future (identifier=hvprak) climate. SEPP count per month for current (identifier=hvprslowaj) and future (identifier=hvprslowak) climate. YYYY=simulation year MM=simulation month ".nc"=netcdf extension 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? Yes  
URL https://zenodo.org/record/4449696
 
Title Tool/algorithm to detect sting-jets within windstorms 
Description We have developed a tool to detect sting-jets within windstorms as well as windstorms that have the potential to produce sting-jets. Sting-jets are a mesoscale phenomenon that produce extremely damaging wind gusts and require high-resolution models to adequately represent them. This is a low-cost approach that may be applied to high-resolution climate simulations and has potential to be used by forecasters to help with predicting windstorms that may have an extreme impact. Existing approaches to detect sting-jets are not feasible for climate analyses as they require high amounts of output which is very costly to store. This low-cost alternative allows for climatological analyses of sting-jets in high-resolution climate simulations. 
Type Of Material Computer model/algorithm 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact none yet 
 
Description Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, MeteoFrance, and KNMI 
Organisation Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Country Italy 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution o Part of FUTURE-STORMS o To understand the fidelity of precipitation tracking schemes and general assessments of km-scale climate models in representing heavy precipitation events from the perspective of precipitation tracking analysis
Collaborator Contribution o Collaborator and my contribution: co-writing of a future paper, performing tracking analysis to a multi-model ensemble of km-scale models over a central/southern Europe region that is centred over the Alps. ? Paper expected to be submitted by summer 2022.
Impact none yet
Start Year 2021
 
Description Collaboration with Paul Davies at UK Met office 
Organisation Meteorological Office UK
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Paul Davies is now a Prof of Practice at Newcastle University. We are working together on improving forecasting methods for extreme rainstorms causing flooding
Collaborator Contribution Improved weather forecasts
Impact Slingo, J., Davies, P., Fowler, H. 2021. Weather Advisory Task Force. Final Report, pp77. https://www.networkrail.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Network-Rail-Weather-Advisory-Task-Force-Final-Report.pdf
Start Year 2021
 
Description Joint position taken at Bristol University 
Organisation University of Bristol
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Dr Lizzie Kendon has taken up a joint position at Bristol University 1 day per week. The aim is to build collaborations that will allow us to achieve benefits for high resolution regional modelling.
Collaborator Contribution Benefit will be gained from their expertise, intellectual input and guidance on needs of hydrological community.
Impact Collaboration has only just commenced
Start Year 2021
 
Description Met office 
Organisation Meteorological Office UK
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Post-doc Steven Chan located at Met Office working directly within Regional Climate Change team led by Lizzie Kendon
Collaborator Contribution Computing time, data storage, staff time for supervision etc
Impact Many outputs - all listed under relevant sections
Start Year 2011
 
Description Prof Fowler leads GEWEX cross-cut 
Organisation Global Energy and Water Exchanges Project
Country United States 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Prof Fowler leads the GEWEX cross-cut on sub-daily precipitation extremes
Collaborator Contribution Partners are part of the cross-cut which is developing a global dataset and publishing on this
Impact Westra et al. (2014) paper
Start Year 2013
 
Description SEPA 
Organisation Scottish Environment Protection Agency
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Perks and Russell visited Mike Cranston at the Scottish Flood forecasting centre at SEPA in Perth to discuss rapid response catchments in Scotland and recent historic FFIR.
Collaborator Contribution TBC
Impact N/A
Start Year 2015
 
Description Scientists contributing to the COST Action DAMOCLES 
Organisation European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST)
Department COST Action
Country Belgium 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution We wrote a paper together detailing guidelines to follow when assessing compound extreme events. I helped organise a workshop to bring together experts to co-develop guidelines and I led the analysis and writing on one of four sections of the paper.
Collaborator Contribution Everyone contributed to the development of guidelines, analysis and writing.
Impact https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2021EF002340
Start Year 2020
 
Description US National Center for Atmospheric Research 
Organisation National Center for Atmospheric Research
Country United States 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Diagnosing the same from km-scale climate model simulations
Collaborator Contribution On the analysis of organised convective storms over Europe, providing satellite analysis for indices for organised convective storm
Impact ? Paper was submitted 2021 without the satellite analysis; paper is being revised.
Start Year 2021
 
Description collaboration with ETH Zurich 
Organisation ETH Zurich
Department Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science
Country Switzerland 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution collaboration with ETH Zurich to examine climate model outputs
Collaborator Contribution collaboration with ETH Zurich to examine climate model outputs
Impact none so far
Start Year 2018
 
Description collaboration with JBA 
Organisation JBA Consulting
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Collaboration on new guidance for urban drainage design
Collaborator Contribution Collaboration on new guidance for urban drainage design
Impact https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2019.0550 http://ftp2.ciwem.org/2019/2019-Autumn/Paper%208%20Future%20Drainage_paper%20final_updated_M%20Dale.pdf
Start Year 2015
 
Description 1st RMetS Climate Forum 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Fowler, H.J. 2019. Water Cycle Risks talk. 1st RMetS Climate Forum, London, 4th June 2019
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Article written for The Conversation 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact We wrote an article for the conversation to explain why storm Eunice was so severe and our current knowledge on future changes in extreme windstorms. This article has been accessed over 24,000 times and republished in a number of different media outlets. We have also engaged with other media outlets including The I.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://theconversation.com/why-storm-eunice-was-so-severe-and-will-violent-wind-storms-become-more-...
 
Description Better Ways of Managing Surface Water Sprint, Northumbrian Water Innovation Festival 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Better Ways of Managing Surface Water Sprint, Northumbrian Water Innovation Festival 2019 - gave talk on Global intensification in observed short-duration rainfall extremes
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Blog post on hourly rainfall extremes 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact A review of the latest science on changes in rainfall extremes for the Carbon Brief website and what this might mean for flood risk
Links: https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-how-hourly-rainfall-extremes-are-changing-in-a-warming-climate
Outcome: the article was published to coincide with COP26.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-how-hourly-rainfall-extremes-are-changing-in-a-warming-climat...
 
Description Breakfast Briefing on 'The rising cost of global flood risk: managing climate change impacts in practice' at Lloyds Library, London in June 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Breakfast Briefing on 'The rising cost of global flood risk: managing climate change impacts in practice' at Lloyds Library,
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Briefing document on extreme rainfall and flooding 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact A review of the evidence for changes in rainfall extremes and links to flooding was undertaken with a report aimed at being accessible to journalists and interested members of the public in the run up to COP26.
Links: https://sciencebrief.org/topics/climate-change-science/extreme-rainfall-and-climate-change and https://sciencebrief.org/uploads/reviews/ScienceBrief_Review_RAINFALL_Jun2021.pdf
Outcome: The report has been published as part of the Tyndall Centre series of Climate Briefs and was featured in The i Newspaper (https://inews.co.uk/news/climate-change-flash-flooding-cities-1037926)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://sciencebrief.org/topics/climate-change-science/extreme-rainfall-and-climate-change
 
Description Briefing document on global water issues 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Contributed to a report by Sainsbury's and PwC UK on addressing global water issues
Year: 2021
A review of global water issues and how they might be addressed.
Links: https://www.about.sainsburys.co.uk/sustainability/plan-for-better/our-stories/2021/water%20report
Outcome: the report was launched and published as part of their COP26 programme and features a series of recommendations to help address current water issues
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.about.sainsburys.co.uk/sustainability/plan-for-better/our-stories/2021/water%20report
 
Description Climate impacts on social housing 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Gave verbal evidence to a social housing tenants' climate jury on social housing organised by the Northern Housing Association. Gave a presentation to the jury on the topic of the impacts of climate change, providing evidence on the scale of the potential impacts. A question session followed with the submission of further questions to which I responded. The purpose of the activity was to provide evidence to the jury to derive their own recommendations for the social housing sector. These were subsequently published in a report.
Outcome: A written report was produced by the NHA providing a set of recommendations for how the sector can address the causes and consequences of climate change
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.northern-consortium.org.uk/the-social-housing-tenants-climate-jury/
 
Description Conversation article 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Writing for The Conversation, Professor Hayley Fowler and Dr Colin Manning discuss why Storm Eunice is so severe - and whether violent wind storms will become more common.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/latest/2022/02/conversationstormeunice/
 
Description Environmental Rights: Law, Science and Policy Symposium, 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Fowler, H.J. 2019. talk on Climate and Water Cycle Risks. Environmental Rights: Law, Science and Policy Symposium, King's College London, 24th June 2019
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Expert panel discussion on Climate and Weather Risks at Met Office Climate Science Conference - Science for a resilient future (online), 11th May 2021. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Expert panel discussion on Climate and Weather Risks at Met Office Climate Science Conference - Science for a resilient future (online), 11th May 2021.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/news/conferences/met-office-science-conference
 
Description FUTURE DRAINAGE workshop, London, September 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact FUTURE DRAINAGE workshop, London, September 2019. Provided overview of UKCP18 data available, including 2.2km projections, to representatives from water companies. Discussed water company needs.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description GEWEX flood workshop - keynote. 22/09/23 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact GEWEX flood workshop - keynote. Online workshop.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Hail in Europe: A CPM-based climatology - Oral presentation at 3rd European Hail Workshop: 15 March - 18 March 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact An oral presentation at a large, themed, regular scientific meeting. Due to COVID-19, it was held online, and a 15-minute oral presentation was done on the virtual conference system, with questions and discussions afterwards.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fehw2020.imk.kit.edu%2Findex.php&am...
 
Description Interview for German TV programme about the 2021 German summer floods 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact TV programme will go out on German and French TV on 28th June 2022 for anniversary of the July 2021 German floods.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Interview for Sky News 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Interview of Sky News about Storm Eunice and climate change on day Storm Eunice hit
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Invited Panelist at Panel Discussion: Net Zero: Interactions between mitigation and adaptation. EPSRC ENZ: Engineering Net Zero Showcase, University of Glasgow, 21-23rd June 2022. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Invited Panelist at Panel Discussion: Net Zero: Interactions between mitigation and adaptation. EPSRC ENZ: Engineering Net Zero Showcase, University of Glasgow, 21-23rd June 2022.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Invited expert for Roundtable with Rt Hon Anne-Marie Trevelyan MP for World Environment Day, 14th July 2021. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Invited expert for Roundtable with Rt Hon Anne-Marie Trevelyan MP for World Environment Day, 14th July 2021.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Invited expert panel member at session on Climate Services to build prosperity and inform security at Civil Service Live 2021 (online), 17th June 2021. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Invited expert panel member at session on Climate Services to build prosperity and inform security at Civil Service Live 2021 (online), 17th June 2021.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Invited panel member for session on "Inclusive transition and circular economy" at the NE Green Economy Summit, 23rd June 2021. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Invited panel member for session on "Inclusive transition and circular economy" at the NE Green Economy Summit, 23rd June 2021.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Invited panelist at WIG Webinar: Maintaining Momentum in Climate Action post-COP26: the Race to Resilience, 14th December 2021. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Invited panelist at WIG Webinar: Maintaining Momentum in Climate Action post-COP26: the Race to Resilience, 14th December 2021.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Invited panelist in Newcastle Debates: How will the North East confront the climate crisis? 5th October, 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Invited panelist in Newcastle Debates: How will the North East confront the climate crisis? 5th October, 2021
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Invited participant in Panel discussion on "Do we need the fossil fuel industry to help in the transition towards net zero?", Newcastle public Lectures, 28th October 2021. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Invited participant in Panel discussion on "Do we need the fossil fuel industry to help in the transition towards net zero?", Newcastle public Lectures, 28th October 2021.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Invited public lecture to Royal Society of Chemistry Lancaster and District section, 7th December 2021. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Invited public lecture to Royal Society of Chemistry Lancaster and District section, 7th December 2021.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Invited talk at workshop on climate risks in Oslo at NORSE - May 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Talk in oslo at natural hazards workshop
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Invited to private round table for inquiry by JNSS on climate adaptation and critical national infrastructure 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Invited to private round table for inquiry by JNSS on climate adaptation and critical national infrastructure
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Keynote 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Fowler, H.J. 2019. Keynote: Global intensification in observed short-duration rainfall extremes. WETWeather, Gregynog, Wales, 29th April - 1st May 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Keynote at CPCM meeting, Bergen, Norway August 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact convection permitting modelling conference in Norway - invited keynote
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Meet the EA Flood and Coastal Risk Management Team - workshop 4/12/23 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Meet the EA Flood and Coastal Risk Management Team - workshop
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Member of panel discussion on climate action at local scales, Tyndall Assembly, September 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Tyndal panel
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Met Office Climate Data Hackathon - Exeter, March 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact o Production of a 3D display model of future sea level rise and coastal flooding for Swansea, using UKCP outputs
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.ukclimateresilience.org/news-events/met-office-climate-data-challenge/
 
Description National Flood Hydrology Road Map Governance Board Meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact National Flood Hydrology Road Map Governance Board Meeting
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Newcastle Climate Summit 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Talk on climate science and emergency at Newcastle Climate Summit in Feb 2020
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Ny Alesund symposium 2018 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact The Ny-Ålesund Symposium is a high-level event that brings together 45 global leaders from politics, science and business. This year's symposium theme is "Navigating Climate Risk", and is hosted by the Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ine Eriksen Søreide.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL http://www.ny-aalesundsymposium.no/2018/About_the_symposium_2018.shtml
 
Description Oral presentation at meeting with representative from Department of BEIS - Colin Manning 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact A 10-minute talk at the meeting to explain our current knowledge of how we expect windstorms, such as storm Arwen, to change in a warmer climate.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Oral presentation at meeting with representatives from Energy Industry - Colin Manning 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact A 15-minute talk at the meeting to explain climate models and how they can be used to help energy companies.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Oral presentation at the Atmospheric Science Conference, by NCAS and RMetS. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact An oral presentation at a themed scientific meeting, with questions and discussions afterwards.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.atmosphericscienceconference.u...
 
Description Oral presentation at workshop on combined wind and rain extremes. - colin manning 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A 15-minute talk at the meeting. Engaged with the scientists and stakeholders in the group, with discussions afterwards. Stakeholders were particularly interested to see the improvements in the representation of windstorms obtained at high-resolution as well as the larger increases projected by high-resolution simulations compared to coarser resolution simulations. These results have highlighted uncertainties in their catastrophe models that they may need to update as a result.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Panel discussion and talk at climate resilience showcase in London by Colin Manning, March 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Panel discussion at climate resilience showcase including discussion of future drainage outcomes, and science from future-storms and stormy-weather
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Panel discussion on zoom organised by Just Stop Oil 25/01/24 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Panel discussion on zoom organised by Just Stop Oil - panellists Sir Davis King, Roger Hallam from XR and myself. Public facing event to inform on climate change risks.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description Presentation at the European Geophysical Union (EGU) conference by Colin manning 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact A brief oral presentation with with discussion in a breakout room.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU21/EGU21-12795.html
 
Description Presentation to Newcastle Central Labour Party 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Presented a talk on the potential local impacts of climate change and what sort of action is need to prepare/increase resilience.
Description: A short talk on how climate change projections are obtained and what they tell us about how our local climate might change and the adaptations we might need to make. Generated a discussion particularly in relation to local policy implications for local and national government.
Outcome: provided guidance for people on how the public might better be engaged in discussing this topic
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Prof fowler talk at WCRP/GDAP workshop, Germany 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact WCRP/GDAP workshop, Germany working group on world climate research programme, precip data
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Prof hayley fowler talk at GEWEX bi-annual conference, Canmore, Canada 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact GEWEX bi-annual conference, Canmore, Canada
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Public Lecture in Newcastle on 4th Dec 2018 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Public Lecture in Newcastle on 4th Dec 2018
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Public Talk: The extreme future of extreme weather 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Fowler, H.J. 2019. Public Talk: The extreme future of extreme weather. Pint of Science Festival, Newcastle, 21st May 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Research for the Rails; 13/10/23 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Meeting at Crown Plaza hotel to discuss research opportunities with Network Rail
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Royal Meteorological Society, RMETS Yorkshire Group talk 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Fowler, H.J. 2019. The reality of climate change: increasing extreme weather hazards. Royal Meteorological Society, RMETS Yorkshire Group, University of Leeds, 16th October 2019. public talk
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Royal Society hooke meeting organisation 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Organised discussion meeting at the Royal Society on Intensification of sub-daily extreme rainfall and flash flood risks.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Royal Society of Chemical Industry talk 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Fowler, H.J. 2019. Public Lecture: Climate Change: Increasing Extreme Weather and Impacts on Water Resources. Royal Society of Chemical Industry, London, 26th June 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Royal Society talk 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Royal Society meeting where Kendon presented a talk on "Using a convection-permitting ensemble for projecting future change in precipitation extremes". This included preliminary results looking at future changes in return levels of hourly precipitation.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Seminar at Reading University - Nov 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact seminar
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Seminar: Understanding changes to short-duration rainfall extremes 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Fowler, H.J. 2019. Seminar: Understanding changes to short-duration rainfall extremes. ETH Zurich, 18th March, 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Stephen blenkinsop AGU: Understanding Rainfall Extremes Across Temporal Scales: From Process Understanding to Practical Application, Washington DC, 10-14 Dec, 2018 (poster) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact AGU: Understanding Rainfall Extremes Across Temporal Scales: From Process Understanding to Practical Application, Washington DC, 10-14 Dec, 2018 (poster)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Surface water flood forecasting and real-time communication symposium - workshop talk - 10/01/24 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Surface water flood forecasting and real-time communication symposium - workshop
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description Talk at National Climate Impacts meeting in Exeter 12/9/23 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact National Climate Impacts meeting in Exeter hosted by Exeter Uni and UKMO. Many stakeholders, consultants etc and representation from DfT. Conference.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Talk at youth climate change summit in newcastle, 5 July 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact youth climate summit organised by city council
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Talk on net zero and climate risks to NHS conference in Newcastle, June 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact NHS drive to net zero - sustainability session at conference
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Talk on predicting changes in climate and hazardous weather 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Adapting the UK to 3C conference, October 2020. Talk by Dr Lizzie Kendon on "Modelling and predicting changes in climate and hazardous weather". Audience of 100+ including policy makers, adaptation practitioners, representatives from business and charity sectors, and researchers. The aim was to inform policy makers and the wider community about the latest science from high resolution regional climate modelling, where are the key knowledge gaps and opportunities for progress, and what can users expect in terms of new understanding over the next few years
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Talk to Climate Change Committee (Newcastle City Council) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Talk on climate science to Newcastle City Council Climate Change Committee in Jan 2020
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Talk to industry practitioners 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A talk to the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management Urban Drainage Group by Dr Stephen Blenkinsop on Intensification of short-duration rainfall extremes and implications for flash flood risks. The talk presented latest understanding on changes in intense rainfall that causes flash flooding to water industry professionals. There was questioning and discussion with other panel members following the presentation.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description invited talk at EGU 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact invited talk
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description invited talk on Sub-daily precipitation variability and extremes 11/07/23 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Colloquium 'Global Precipitation Data Sets and their Applications - Status Quo and Way Forward' at DWD, Germany and online
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description keynote Atmospheric Science Conference 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Fowler, H.J. 2019. Keynote: Global intensification in observed short-duration rainfall extremes. Atmospheric Science Conference 2019; Weather, Climate and Air Quality, Birmingham, 2nd - 3rd July, 2019
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description media interest around storm eunice and sting jets 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact during storm eunice - the day of the storm and previous day I was involved in a number of press interviews (TV, radio, newspapers)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description presentation to school science club on extreme rainfall and climate change 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact 27th Jan 2022 - gave talk and discussion to Corbridge Middle School science club on extreme rainfall and climate change
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description press interest in GRL paper 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Huge interest in national/international media outlets, and social media. many different media interviews etc
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1029%2F2020GL092361&a...
 
Description talk at Flood Nonstationarity and Prediction Workshop 20/07/23 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Flood Nonstationarity and Prediction Workshop talk online
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description visit by ICE president anusha shah -8/3/24 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Institution of Civil Engineering president anusha shah visit to newcastle uni as part of visit to NE
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description webinar 11/03/2024 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Live webinar held as part of Decarbonising Transport Week. Recording also shared publicly for on-demand viewing.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024