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Wilson Chan
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Hydroclimatologist UKCEH | PhD Uni Reading | Climate change and hydrological extremes | Views my own 🇭🇰🇬🇧
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📢 New paper! Events like the winter 2023/24 floods are wetter with higher river flows due to climate change.

A worst-case “storyline” shows flows could be even higher - anticipating UNSEEN extremes is vital for adaptation.

🔗: doi.org/10.1088/1748...

@ukceh.bsky.social @climatecocentre.bsky.social
River flow amplification under climate change: attribution and climate-driven storylines of the winter 2023/24 UK floods - IOPscience
River flow amplification under climate change: attribution and climate-driven storylines of the winter 2023/24 UK floods, Chan, Wilson C H, Barker, Lucy J, Faranda, Davide, Hannaford, Jamie
doi.org
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📣 Call for abstracts #EGU26: How do climate variability patterns (eg ENSO, NAO, AMO) influence water resources & extremes like floods & droughts?

🌍💧 Submit by 15 Jan! 🔗 https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/session/55947

#Hydrology #ClimateVariability #WaterResources
November 26, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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💧 📢Calling all river flow modellers heading to #EGU26

The UK Hydro-MIP team are inviting submissions for their session on Learning from model differences: model intercomparison, benchmarking and multi-model approaches in hydrology (HS2.2.8)

meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...

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November 24, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Two exciting postdoc positions available!

Historical windstorms - working with two insurance companies to explore UK wind risks: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Extreme event storylines - working as part of a EU collaboration on event attribution: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
November 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Looking for a #PhD in #ClimateExtremes?
We are advertising a project attributing causes of recent #droughts using counter-factual storylines.
Based in #Edinburgh, working with Andrew Schurer, me, @gabihegerl.bsky.social, & @edhawkins.org
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November 6, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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The Rainfall Observers

Over the past three centuries, thousands of people across the British & Irish Isles have recorded rainfall, often every day for decades. Here we recognise some of the individuals who made particularly important contributions.

rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The rainfall observers
Over the past three centuries, thousands of people across the British and Irish Isles have regularly recorded rainfall, often every day for decades. Their efforts allow us to reconstruct long-term tr...
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October 1, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Heading to IAHS 2025 in Roorkee 🇮🇳? 🌏

I’m co-hosting a side event + giving a talk with the ROBIN Network!

Let’s talk reference hydrological networks, drought indicators & climate change detection!

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October 1, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Climate change is not a con-job. If you want to know more about the evidence for and causes of #ClimateChange, head to our website: royalsociety.org/news-resourc...
Climate change: evidence and causes | Royal Society
Supplementary information for the project 'Climate Change: Evidence and causes'.
royalsociety.org
September 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Excited to host a hands-on #IAHS2025 workshop with @sayaliuk.bsky.social & @wilsonchan.bsky.social

🗓️ 6 Oct, 18:00 IST | 📍 Roorkee, India

Explore the ROBIN dataset, drought indicators & FlowScreen.

More info: iahs2025.com/SEROBIN

Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#ROBINHydro #Hydrology
September 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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📢 New paper! Events like the winter 2023/24 floods are wetter with higher river flows due to climate change.

A worst-case “storyline” shows flows could be even higher - anticipating UNSEEN extremes is vital for adaptation.

🔗: doi.org/10.1088/1748...

@ukceh.bsky.social @climatecocentre.bsky.social
River flow amplification under climate change: attribution and climate-driven storylines of the winter 2023/24 UK floods - IOPscience
River flow amplification under climate change: attribution and climate-driven storylines of the winter 2023/24 UK floods, Chan, Wilson C H, Barker, Lucy J, Faranda, Davide, Hannaford, Jamie
doi.org
September 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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🌊 Latest UK Hydrological Outlook: Normal to below normal river flows likely in southern & eastern areas over the next 3 months, with low flows for the time of year persisting in some catchments.

River flows in northwestern areas likely shifting towards normal to above normal by November.

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September 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM
📢 New paper! Events like the winter 2023/24 floods are wetter with higher river flows due to climate change.

A worst-case “storyline” shows flows could be even higher - anticipating UNSEEN extremes is vital for adaptation.

🔗: doi.org/10.1088/1748...

@ukceh.bsky.social @climatecocentre.bsky.social
River flow amplification under climate change: attribution and climate-driven storylines of the winter 2023/24 UK floods - IOPscience
River flow amplification under climate change: attribution and climate-driven storylines of the winter 2023/24 UK floods, Chan, Wilson C H, Barker, Lucy J, Faranda, Davide, Hannaford, Jamie
doi.org
September 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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With exceptionally dry conditions in many parts of the UK this year, hydrologists at UKCEH address the question of whether #globalwarming is increasing severity of #droughts in a guest post for @carbonbrief.org
August 27, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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NEW – Guest post: Is climate change making UK droughts worse?

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

➡️ Read here: buff.ly/boBB8nU
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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August 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Provisional statistics from the Met Office show that summer 2025 will ‘almost certainly’ be the warmest summer on record for the UK.

It would move 2018 off the top spot and relegate 1976 out of the top five warmest summer in a series which dates back to 1884.
👉 www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
August 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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🌊🏜️🌍 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...
ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com
July 30, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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The UK Hydrological Summary confirms heightened risk of drought impacts this summer — especially in eastern Britain.

June was the warmest on record for England and 2nd warmest for the UK overall. Rainfall showed stark regional contrasts, with some areas seeing less than half of average.

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July 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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What is the hydrological outlook for the UK in the weeks and months ahead? Steve Turner talks us through the likely situation for river flows and groundwater levels.

See the full outlook: hydoutuk.net/latest-outlook

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July 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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📣 New paper:
💧💧💧 In July 2021 record breaking rainfall hit western Europe, we use ensemble boosting to explore different plausible storylines. These show it could have rained for longer, or over a larger area, or in a different place. Are we prepared?

doi.org/10.1038/s432...
July 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Our @ukceh.bsky.social team have written about how studying North Atlantic Ocean patterns can predict UK droughts a year in advance.

Read more here: www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med...
Studying North Atlantic Ocean patterns can predict UK droughts a year in advance
Dr Amulya Chevuturi, a hydroclimate data scientist at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, discusses an exciting research finding that could help the UK better prepare for droughts.
www.ceh.ac.uk
June 25, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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🌊 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
climatelabbook.substack.com
June 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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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.

🔗 climatelabbook.substack.com/p/visualisin...

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Visualising climate impacts on UK river flows
Introducing streamflow stripes #ShowYourStripes
climatelabbook.substack.com
June 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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🔊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:
showyourstripes.info

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June 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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As we seem to, yet again, be talking about the hot UK summer of 1976, a reminder that the UK is not the world.

Yes, it was hot that summer over our small region, but the bigger picture tells a different story.

And, we've had hotter UK summers since.
June 18, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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UK Hydrological Summary for May: Recent rainfall brought some respite but summer began with depleted river flows, groundwater levels & reservoir stocks.

Increases risk of further dry weather impacts, with climbing evaporation rates limiting rainfall effectiveness

🔗 nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/sites/defaul...
June 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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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...
www.nature.com
June 6, 2025 at 8:28 AM