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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · Aug 26

NEW – Guest post: Is climate change making UK droughts worse?

✍️ Jamie Hannaford, @wilsonchan.bsky.social, Lucy Barker, Stephen Turner

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Guest post: Is climate change making UK droughts worse? - Carbon Brief

The year 2025 has seen exceptionally dry conditions in many parts of the UK. At...

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CANARI @canari-science.bsky.social · Jul 30

🌊🏜️🌍 New job opportunity @ukceh.bsky.social for a Hydroclimate Scientist to work on the @climatecocentre.bsky.social and @canari-science.bsky.social projects to advance understanding of hydroclimatic extremes in the face of climate change!

Apply now: ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/CEH_Ca...

Hydroclimate Scientist

Salary - £38,939 to £41,321 Hybrid Working Based at Wallingford, Oxfordshire Permanent, full-time We will be closing this advert on 26/08/2025.. Are you a dedicated scientist eager to advance our unde...

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · Jul 30

💧 How can we plan for future droughts when past observations are limited?

UKCEH hydroclimatologist @wilsonchan.bsky.social explains how ‘hindcasts’ and the UNSEEN method can help us explore rare but plausible scenarios, filling gaps in observations.

New blog post: www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... 🧪

Low water levels at Pontsticill reservoir, south Wales, in July 2025.

Graph showing unprecedented low summer rainfall found in one example realisation of the ECMWF hindcast archive (in red) compared to observed summer rainfall (in black). The light grey shading indicates the highest and lowest rainfall in the observations over this period.

Series of maps of UK illustrating four storylines of river flows given a dry or wet July combined with sustained settled or unsettled conditions as a result of a shifted jet stream to the north or south of the UK.

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Amulya Chevuturi @amulyachevuturi.bsky.social · Jul 28

@ukceh.bsky.social is looking for a Hydroclimate Scientist to join the team in Wallingford 🌧️☀️
Work on hydrological projections & climate resilience tools—real world impactful science.
Apply here 👉 ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/CEH_Ca...
#hydroclimate #climatejobs #UKCEH #droughtscience #careers

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CANARI @canari-science.bsky.social · Jul 30

🌊🏜️🌍 New job opportunity @ukceh.bsky.social for a Hydroclimate Scientist to work on the @climatecocentre.bsky.social and @canari-science.bsky.social projects to advance understanding of hydroclimatic extremes in the face of climate change!

Apply now: ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/CEH_Ca...

Hydroclimate Scientist

Salary - £38,939 to £41,321 Hybrid Working Based at Wallingford, Oxfordshire Permanent, full-time We will be closing this advert on 26/08/2025.. Are you a dedicated scientist eager to advance our unde...

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Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water @climatecocentre.bsky.social · Jun 23

Check out this blog on visualising climate impacts on UK river flows from @amulyachevuturi.bsky.social and @edhawkins.org. It is based on research from the team at @ukceh.bsky.social.

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Amulya Chevuturi @amulyachevuturi.bsky.social · Jun 20

🌊 Streamflow Stripes are here!!! 🌊
Just in time for #ShowYourStripes Day – 21st June 🌍

Our team at @ukceh.bsky.social has created UK river flow stripes to visualise how these have changed over time.

📖 Read more: climatelabbook.substack.com/p/visualisin...

#ClimateChange #Hydrology #DataViz

Visualising climate impacts on UK river flows

Introducing streamflow stripes #ShowYourStripes

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CANARI @canari-science.bsky.social · Jun 20

CANARI scientists from @ukceh.bsky.social have created UK river flow stripes.

High flows are rising in the north/west and drought risk growing in parts of the south/east. Adaptation is needed to reduce impacts from swings between wet/dry.

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Visualising climate impacts on UK river flows

Introducing streamflow stripes #ShowYourStripes

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CANARI @canari-science.bsky.social · Jun 20

Stripes for ocean acidification, air quality, and biodiversity loss reveal alarming trends.

CANARI aims to better understand North Atlantic atmospheric and oceanic circulation and how they may shift in the future.

🔗https://oceanacidificationstripes.info/s/ph/basin/globalocean/entirebasin

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CANARI @canari-science.bsky.social · Jun 20

The stripes tell the story of how our climate has changed and it's not just warming at the surface. Temperatures are changing for the rest of the atmosphere and the ocean too 🌍

🔗https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/106/5/BAMS-D-24-0212.1.xml

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CANARI @canari-science.bsky.social · Jun 20

🔊21st June is #showyourstripes day 🌍

2024 was the warmest year on record globally. The stripes help start a conversation about climate change and climate action🥵

Download your warming stripes here:
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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · Jun 13

🌊 Exciting research could help the UK better prepare for droughts... 

It shows a link between North Atlantic ocean temperatures and UK summer droughts, with signs up to 18 months ahead ☀️

@amulyachevuturi.bsky.social explains more: www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med...

@canari-science.bsky.social 🧪

Infographic with maps showing how North Atlantic Ocean temperatures are linked to UK droughts many months later.

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CANARI @canari-science.bsky.social · Jun 6

This study was supported by the CANARI project and was a collaboration between @ukceh.bsky.social @noc.ac.uk, @ncas-uk.bsky.social and @ecmwf.int

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CANARI @canari-science.bsky.social · Jun 6

The study reveals a teleconnection pathway linking North Atlantic sea surface temperature patterns, associated with freshwater inflows into the subpolar region, to shifts in the North Atlantic Current and jet stream, and reduction in UK precipitation and river flows at long lead times

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CANARI @canari-science.bsky.social · Jun 6

New CANARI research reveals predictability for UK summer droughts up to 1.5 years in advance 🏜️

Find out more in the paper published in Nature Communications Earth & Environment, led by @amulyachevuturi.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Oceanic drivers of UK summer droughts - Communications Earth & Environment

North Atlantic sea surface temperature influences hydrology in the United Kingdom up to 1.5 years in advance via a teleconnection with the position of the North Atlantic Current, which can help with d...

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Amulya Chevuturi @amulyachevuturi.bsky.social · Jun 5

North Atlantic Ocean patterns can signal UK summer droughts up to 1.5 years in advance; offering major potential for early drought forecasting.

📢 Published in Nature Communications Earth & Environment! Read it here doi.org/10.1038/s432....

#UKDroughts #Teleconnections #Forecasting

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Ben Harvey @benharvey.bsky.social · Apr 29

Interested in better understanding how high-impact storms will change in future? Have a look at our new regional modelling position under the CANARI project - one week left to apply!
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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · Apr 14

Free #training course: Data-driven approaches to hydrological science

Spaces limited - apply by 9 May! buff.ly/cT8ITpH 🧪 💧

Free training course: Data driven approaches to hydrological science | Floods and Droughts Research Infrastructure

Join us for this online course where you will learn to find, prepare, manipulate, analyse, model and present hydrological data in a series of skills-focussed workshops and seminars. Students will…

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CANARI @canari-science.bsky.social · Apr 7

CANARI is heading to the @egu.eu General Assembly in April with presentations from flood risk to sea ice variability and rapid Arctic change. 🌍🌊❄️

Find out more: canari.ac.uk/2025/04/07/c...

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CANARI at EGU General Assembly 2025

CANARI researchers will be taking part in the EGU25 conference Find out all the CANARI-related sessions and presentations.

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Jamie Hannaford @jamiehannahydro.bsky.social · Apr 4

Nice international commentary on hydrological transitions aka whiplash…including our @ukceh.bsky.social researchers who are working on such transitions in the UK, within the @canari-science.bsky.social project. More from this team soon (at EGU for example)….

John Hammond @hydrohammond.bsky.social · Mar 20

Science! Super proud of this commentary that results from conversations started at @agu.org in December. We propose the term hydrological whiplash, sub-seasonal transitions between hydrological extremes, and outline why we think this topic needs greater attention.

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Hydrological Whiplash: Highlighting the Need for Better Understanding and Quantification of Sub‐Seasonal Hydrological Extreme Transitions

Hydrological whiplash, or the sub-seasonal transition between hydrological extremes, has broad implications for water resource management, ecosystems, infrastructure, and human society. As this pheno...

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Wilson Chan @wilsonchan.bsky.social · Apr 1

It was great to give a talk recently for @britishhydrosoc.bsky.social/@ciwem.bsky.social!

Recording: tinyurl.com/mrxe878r

I talked about the climate impacts on UK floods/droughts and the need to better understand and prepare for record-breaking, unprecedented events 🌊🏜️

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Climate Science in Water Systems: Informing Adaptation & Resilience to Climate Change | Part 1 of 4

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CANARI @canari-science.bsky.social · Mar 28

New free CANARI-supported training course hosted at @ukceh.bsky.social on "Data-driven approaches in hydrological science" led by @amulyachevuturi.bsky.social

Find out more and apply here: canari.ac.uk/2025/03/27/n...

#hydrology #climate

New CANARI online training course at UKCEH

Free CANARI-supported UKCEH training course on “Data-driven approaches to hydrological science”

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Wilson Chan @wilsonchan.bsky.social · Mar 28

New free @canari-science.bsky.social training course hosted at @ukceh.bsky.social on "Data-driven approaches in hydrological science" led by @amulyachevuturi.bsky.social

Find out more and apply here: canari.ac.uk/2025/03/27/n...

#hydrology #climate

New CANARI online training course at UKCEH

Free CANARI-supported UKCEH training course on “Data-driven approaches to hydrological science”

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World Meteorological Organization @wmo-global.bsky.social · Mar 19

🔴The #StateOfClimate report, released today, reveals key climate change indicators again reached record levels in 2024.

Check out the full report: wmo.int/publication-...

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CANARI @canari-science.bsky.social · Jan 29

👨‍💻💡 CANARI SPRINT 💡👩‍💻
Our Sprint is a week-long coordinated effort of several research centres and around 40 researchers to analyse the data from the Large Ensemble. We are looking for how the ocean, atmosphere, sea ice and connections between could be changing. #ClimateScience

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