Future Changes in Indicators of Climate Hazard and Resource in the UK

Arnell, Nigel, Dorling, Stephen, Fowler, Hayley, Hanlon, Helen, Jenkins, Katie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6740-5139 and Kennedy-Asser, Alan (2023) Future Changes in Indicators of Climate Hazard and Resource in the UK. In: Quantifying Climate Risk and Building Resilience in the UK. Springer, pp. 145-161. ISBN 978-3-031-39728-8

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Abstract

• The UK Climate Resilience Programme (UKCR) funded several projects that have calculated how climate change is likely to affect climate hazards and resources across the UK, using the latest UK Climate Projections (UKCP18). • Under a high emissions scenario, heatwaves and high tempera-ture extremes become more frequent across the UK, leading to an increase in human mortality, animal heat stress, potato blight, wild-fire danger and damage to road and rail infrastructure. Cold weather extremes continue to occur but become less frequent. • Also under high emissions, the growing season starts earlier, lasts longer and is warmer; this is particularly beneficial for grass-land and viticulture, but the chance of summer drought and dry soils increases. The precise effects vary across different agricultural systems. • With respect to rainfall, high hourly and daily totals become more frequent, leading to a greater chance of flash flooding. River floods become more frequent in the north and west of the UK, but low river flows and droughts also become more frequent, and water quality in upland water sources declines. The actual size of the change in risk is uncertain, primarily due to uncertainty in exactly how rainfall will change. • There are large differences in change in risk across the UK. However, the actual size of the change in risk is uncertain, primarily due to uncertainty in exactly how rainfall will change.

Item Type: Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords: climate hazards,climate resources,climate risk,ukcp18,environmental science(all),social sciences(all),earth and planetary sciences(all),sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2300
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Water Security Research Centre
Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
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Depositing User: LivePure Connector
Date Deposited: 10 Jan 2024 01:19
Last Modified: 25 Sep 2024 10:45
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/94124
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-39729-5_10

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