CATS is part of a new EPSRC-funded project entitled ‘Delivering and Evaluating Multiple Flood Risk Benefits’. Led by the University of Nottingham (Colin Thorne) the project aims to develop novel ways of driving new, resilient urban forms and fabrics through delivering measures to manage flood events sustainably while enhancing urban life; providing scope for radical solutions under new build; and, realising possibilities for improving existing performance through retrofit and urban renewal.

More information about other CATS projects can be found here|.

Leonard Smith contributes to Climate Science Day on Capitol Hill, 26-27 February 2013

As a member of the ASA Advisory Committee on Climate Change Policy (ACCCP) Professor Leonard Smith| was a member of a Climate Science Working Group that took part in the 2013 Climate Science Day on Capitol Hill, on 26-27 February. The purpose of the visits is to provide a non-partisan opportunity for scientists of many disciplines to build relationships and provide Members of Congress access to the best possible climate science information.

More information about similar events can be found here|.

Forthcoming CATS publications

S C Chapman, D A Stainforth, and N W Watkins (2013, in press), ‘On Estimating Local Long Term Climate Trends’ Philos. Trans. R. Soc. A-Math. Phys. Eng. Sci.
N W Watkins Bunched black (and grouped grey) swans: Dissipative and Non-Dissipative Models of Correlated Extreme Fluctuations in Complex Geosystems Geophysical Research Letters (to appear)

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Blue Gene Project|

A Climate Research Project, sponsored by Lloyd's of London and utilising the computational resources of the Hartree Centre to examine the ability of state of the art general circulation models to shadow the observations; starting with EC Earth (the models considered will vary with the permissions granted the Blue Gene team.

End-to-End Quantification of Uncertainty for Impacts Prediction (EQUIP)|

Funded by NERC, EQUIP is a collaborative project involving eleven UK Universities and research institutions. Grant holder: Prof Leonard Smith. Start/end date: January 2010-December 2012.
Summary: EQUIP brings together the UK climate modelling, statistical modelling, and impacts communities to work closely together for the first time on developing risk-based prediction for decision making in the face of climate variability and change.

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A Millner, R Calel, D Stainforth and G MacKerron (2013) Do probabilistic expert elicitations capture scientists’ uncertainty about climate change? Climatic Change, 116(2), 427-436.

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Munich Re Programme|

EQUIP

Managing Uncertainty in Complex Models (MUCM)