Hayley Fowler

Hydrology in the 21st century: challenges in science, to policy and practice | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences To mark the 40th anniversary of the British Hydrological Society, a landmark Discussion Meeting was held at the Royal Society in June 2024, bringing together a transdisciplinary community, including h...

New paper and special issue celebrating 40 years of the @britishhydrosoc.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Climate expert awarded Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowship Professor Hayley Fowler has been awarded a Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowship to tackle extreme weather risks.

I am honoured to have been awarded a @royalsociety.org Faraday Discovery Fellowship. My EXTREME-FUTURES project will develop a new seamless framework to improve global predictions of hydroclimatic extremes @newcastleuni.bsky.social www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl...

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Lol. Well I think I missed this in my (less than thorough) editing. Very amusing.

Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water | LinkedIn Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water | 2,488 followers on LinkedIn. Solutions focused research into climate, biodiversity & water issues on the islands of Ireland & Great Britain | The...

New PhD - full funding for UK/Irish applicant - start Jan 26 - Design and evaluation of multi-functional Blue Green Infrastructure under climate change tinyurl.com/42s8rade: Clare Walsh, Vassilis Glenis & myself, Newcastle Uni. Part of Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water lnkd.in/e5g6nz6V

Hydrology Paper of the Day @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social @vikkithompson.bsky.social on linkages between convective rainfall events and global warming: mini-ensemble models; application of a hydrostatic regional climate model; and increases in extreme events with an increase in global temperatures.

yes - 40degC in June would truly be something in the UK!

Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Programme: Science Review and Advisory Group Members This advertisement is for the recruitment of up to four new members of the Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Programme Science Advisory and Review Group. It is posted on behalf of The UK Department for...

We are looking for new members of the Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Programme: Science Review and Advisory Group, which I chair - deadline 13th August.

www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/app...

This is a very nice new paper I was involved in. It is a very powerful new method for investigating the thermodynamic effects of climate change on rainfall extremes, with some quite sobering results showing very large increases in intensity.

I'll be on the panel for this podcast with @briancoxtalks.bsky.social next week. We are talking about climate adaptation. You can be part of the audience (sign up in the link below) #ClimateCrisis

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Absolutely agree Ali. And we can expect flooding when it breaks down in late May/early June

I'm advertising an 18-month post-doc position to produce a sub-daily blended rainfall dataset over the UK and Ireland - 28176 Research Assistant / Associate Islands of Britain and Ireland. jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl... Closing date 3 June 2025.

A woman gives a presentation on climate simulations and power outages to a small group in a conference room

A group of people stands in a lab looking at the equipment

Several individuals gathered on a path looking at a living biodiversity lab

Living biodiversity lab outdoors

Many thanks to Prof @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social
and her team @newcastleuni.bsky.social for hosting us! Great to share our first-year wins and hear all about their incredible Climate+ research.

Shame I didn't see this until now. I'd have come to see it. She looks delighted!

Abstract submission now open for the UK National Climate Impacts meeting. Climate and health focus on one day, and a general impacts/risks focus on the other. We would love to see you. @eunicelo.bsky.social @richardabetts.bsky.social @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social www.climatebristol.org/projects/nci...

Precipitation extremes in 2024 - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 2024 was one of the wettest years on record, witnessing record-breaking extreme precipitation events across the globe, several of which were compound events. Extreme rainfalls were unprecedented in ar...

Green et al. outline 2024 rain extremes, finding:

- Many record-breaking events
- Several events were made more intense by warming
- Compound events were common

www.nature.com/articles/s43... (rdcu.be/ehm0B)

@hayleyjfowler.bsky.social @nclengineering.bsky.social @tyndallcentre.bsky.social

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The video in this montage is extraordinary- and not in a good way. “Historic” life-changing flooding in so many spots. We have irreversibly changed our planet in ways that will compound and debilitate.
(On a lighter note, I apparently made a cameo)

Come and join us to work as a Climate Hub Project Manager for the northeast UK region on the Climate Ambassador project funded by the DfE - deadline to apply is 13 April jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

Heathrow fire shows just how vulnerable UK energy infrastructure is – we’ve simulated the major climate-related risks The UK’s energy system is facing growing threats from unprecedented hazards.

The situation at Heathrow today should make us think more about infrastructure resilience, dependencies and cascading risks. Especially with extreme weather risks increasing so rapidly from climate change. theconversation.com/heathrow-fir...

What's the energy mix for the UK's power right now? Last week? Last month? Since 2012?

Perhaps, like me, you're late to the party on these excellent visuals and resources from software dev Kate Morley:

grid.iamkate.com

The jet stream that helped dump a foot of snow on the Gulf Coast is now accelerating over the Atlantic, helping fuel the strongest storm on record over Ireland with 100 mph gusts and 50 ft waves! It is so strong NOAA sent a hurricane hunter to Ireland to collect data!
#Eowyn

So why are they getting so far north? I saw that one is about to hit Alaska in the next few days too.

Compound wind and rainfall extremes: Drivers and future changes over the UK and Ireland The co-occurrence of wind and rainfall extremes can yield larger impacts than when either hazard occurs in isolation. This study assesses compound ext…

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Projected increase in windstorm severity and contribution from sting jets over the UK and Ireland Extratropical windstorms can lead to extreme impacts in the UK; however, future changes in windstorm frequency and intensity are uncertain due to natu…

Storm Eowyn is now developing a hook shape associated with sting jets and their devastating high winds. Increasing frequency of these storms is consistent with climate change. Climate models predict compounding risks from higher winds & large rainfall increases www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Ooh. Didn't get one. Currently in London travelling back from Met Office. Was going to travel tomorrow but...

I don't think it is a widely held view but I think there is growing evidence

They are tuned to match to a certain extent (based on optimising parameter values on a number of key parameters to match GMST changes)

This is based on the statistics though rather than the physical process representation (as far as I am aware). Do not have time to read this morning. We need both.