Hannah Bloomfield

One of my favourite interactions with the peer review system came up as a Google memory today 😂

My wonderful University have just completed the paperwork on a grant I had that ran from Oct 2023 - Mar 2025. And they're confused why I'm not particularly interested... It's been FINISHED two months 😂🤦‍♀️
Makes me feel less bad about that fence i've been meaning to paint for 2 years in my garden...

Wind and solar energy droughts: Potential impacts on energy system dynamics and research needs This Perspective article provides a brief overview of the topic of wind and solar energy droughts (henceforth WSDs). It does not attempt to provide a complete l

This time last year at #EGU I met Jim Wilczack and he invited me to join him and an excellent team on this perspective piece that we've had published today!
It's helping a little with my EGU FOMO :)
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Abstract submission to the 5th National Climate Impacts & Risks Meeting (Bristol 18-19 Sept 2025) is now open! www.climatebristol.org/projects/nci...

We're interested in all climate impacts and adaptation, with a day dedicated to health. Come join us!

The latest paper led by Kieran (with a little help from me) where we compare the traditional regression-based techniques that I've used a lot over Europe, to more complex machine learning methods to model state-wise Indian demand.
Lots of open data available too!
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Africa-UK physics projects to drive collaboration and innovation A major new initiative is now underway to advance scientific research, innovation, and economic development across sub-Saharan Africa.

Excited to be involved in one of these exciting UKRI funded projects. www.ukri.org/news/africa-...

More calls like this please! :) #capacitybuilding #climateresilience #energymeteorology

Our rapidly changing climate means it is of key importance that climate scientists continue to work with energy system modellers to develop best practices for stress testing highly weather-sensitive future power systems and this report continues to make progress towards this goal.

Using the UK Met Office's UK Climate Projections (UKCP18) We can see the anticipated changes in energy system composition have a much larger impact on management of the future energy system than near-term climate change.

We also modelled 28 European countries for the present day climate, and can see that while GB is experiencing its most extreme short-duration stress events, it is common for interconnected countries to also be experiencing times of high need.

Overall, the amount of non-renewable energy the system needs to find (the difference between demand and renewable generation) will decrease in future power systems, given the expected expansion of renewables capacity. But they're not generating consistently through the year, so balancing is needed.

The energy system will become more weather-sensitive over time, due to the electrification of the economy and the rapid increases in wind and solar generation. Despite this, there will likely remain periods of low renewables generation, which will require low-carbon flexibility solutions to manage.

We had three types of challenging event, a short-duration stress event (a few days of high demand and low renewables, driven by a low wind cold snap) a challenging year (where generally demand is higher and renewable generation is lower, and a multi-year challenge.

In this project I used time series of demand, wind and solar power for now, mid-2030s and 2050 to think about weather-driven stress on power systems for a present climate and for some future warming scenarios.

An absolute pleasure to work with the Climate Change Committee on this piece of work out today:

Reasonable worst case stress test scenarios for the UK energy sector.

www.theccc.org.uk/publication/...

Key points I'd like anyone to get from this are given in the thread below :)

New paper day!

Increasingly Seasonal Jet Stream Raises Risk of Co-Occurring Flooding and Extreme Wind in Great Britain

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The final piece in the CGFI and friends compound wind flood risk puzzle, led by John Hillier :-)

Climate Change: vulnerability impacts and adaptation course. Free pilot programme running for 8 weeks online. Sign up in the link in the post!

Join Newcastle University's Climate Change Vulnerability Risk and Adaptation course and gain the expertise to understand, evaluate, and respond to climate-related hazards.

Sign up here: lnkd.in/eB8rBGxk

YouTube video by Science Moms ByTheTime

Now this is the kind of advert I can get behind! Great work Science Moms!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYwP...
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Thanks Chris! There's always next time 🙃

Bittersweet proposal rejection this morning with the feedback:
'9/10 Outstanding: The application very strongly meets all the assessment criteria.'

What can you even do at this point except just submit again and hope you win the lottery? #rantover #needsomechocolate #someonegiveUKRImorecash

Detecting Rising Wildfire Risks for South East England In July 2022 southeast England experienced a record breaking heatwave and unprecedented wildfires in urban areas. We investigate fire weather trends since 1960 in southeast England using a large ense....

Wildfires aren’t a problem in the UK, right? Wrong. Not on the same scale as we are seeing in LA, but there are thousands of wildfires every year in the UK. In the heatwave of July 2022 wildfires broke out in London.

Our new paper explores the risks: doi.org/10.1002/cli2...

Great to host Dr Ji-Eun Byun from Glasgow university today for a project meeting and fascinating lunchtime seminar!
Now just to finish off the project :)

I didn't have a single meeting today, spent all day making plots, drinking tea and eating apple crumble...and just needed to shout it into the ether.
Sometimes science is still glorious! :)
#stillgotit

YouTube video by Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS) State of the Climate for the UK Energy Sector 2023/24- Ben Hutchins

Great summary of the @rmets.org 'State of the Climate for the UK Energy Sector 2023/24' report by Ben Hutchins.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUFv...
Was great to work on this report and see the energy reanalysis used in collaboration with stakeholders. Hopefully we can do even more next year!

Happy New Year Bluesky friends!
If you're just warming up for the new term here's something to read that I really enjoyed being involved in:
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A probabilistic risk assessment framework for the impact of extreme events on renewable power plant components.

Come see me in salon G at 16:50 to hear about how I use high resolution climate data to help prepare future energy systems for weather-driven extremes.

Important networking has happened so far today. But I'd love to meet some interested humans as well as puppers! 😂
#AGU24 #pawsitivity

I'm at #AGU24 drop me a message if you'd like to meet up and talk about anything energy-meteorology or climate impacts!

Great resource developed by @ruarirhodes.bsky.social for @rmets.bsky.social
I've been lucky to explore the world of catastrophe modelling a bit in my research and it's a very cool job option for weather/climate enthusiasts!
www.rmets.org/news/atmosph...

🔔🔔 Call for abstracts for a new session at EGU 2025
"Weather and Climate Science Insights for the Insurance and Financial Sectors" (NH11.4). Co-organised with @mattpriestley.bsky.social , Natalie Lord, @pjyng.bsky.social, and Nikolaos S. Bartsotas.
Submit here: lnkd.in/e6MR69gk

Today in engineering at @newcastleuni.bsky.social we've had a map-themed bake off and a session from PhD students about their recent placements.

Not every day is a good one in academia in terms of research culture... But everything is a little better when you're full of cake. 🗺️🍰💬

This is a super resource for talking about different climate hazards across different parts of the world. Top work @carbonbrief.org !