News – CANARI

Review of the climate change impacts on ocean circulation relevant to the UK and Ireland

hjeffery — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:26:14 +0000

A review from the Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership (MCCIP) highlights concerns over changes in ocean circulation systems critical to the UK and Ireland’s climate. NCAS, NOC and Met Office researchers contributed to the study focusing on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a vast system of currents that regulates heat and carbon distribution across the globe.

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CANARI researchers inform parliamentary inquiry on drought preparedness

wilcha — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 11:32:16 +0000

UKCEH principal hydrologist and CANARI Work Package 2 Co-Lead Jamie Hannaford joined the House of Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee on 12th November to discuss drought preparedness in the UK. Jamie joined fellow panellists Prof Alan Macdonald from the British Geological Survey and Prof Jason Lowe from the Met Office, both key institutional partners within CANARI.

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CANARI’s Role in Understanding Arctic Climate Risks

hjeffery — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 18:45:41 +0000

The recent milestone of a container ship navigating the Northern Sea Route from China to the UK underscores the profound changes in the Arctic driven by climate change. While melting ice opens new trade opportunities, it also heightens environmental and safety risks, including the potential for severe storms. In the news article, Climate change clears northern route for first container ship | The…

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Studying North Atlantic Ocean patterns can predict UK droughts a year in advance

wilcha — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 15:24:35 +0000

Dr Amulya Chevuturi, a hydroclimate data scientist at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, discusses a recent paper involving several CANARI researchers from NCAS, NOC and UKCEH. This new paper reveals predictability for UK summer droughts up to 1.5 years in advance… As UK droughts become more common and severe due to climate change, finding their causes is important to predict them earlier and…

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CANARI at EGU General Assembly 2025

wilcha — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 12:40:19 +0000

Home / News CANARI researchers will be taking part in the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2025 (EGU25) from April 27th-May 2nd at the Austria Center, Vienna. This year, we have a wide range of talks and posters where our researchers will present on topics from water resources and modelling sea…

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New CANARI online training course at UKCEH

wilcha — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 13:12:40 +0000

Home / News UKCEH is running a new (and free!) online training course on “Data-driven approaches to hydrological science”. The training course is supported by CANARI and is led by CANARI researcher Amulya Chevuturi, Hydroclimate Data Scientist. Details of the course and application process can be found…

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CANARI Coding Sprint v2

Ben Harvey — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 22:37:30 +0000

Home / News We completed production of the CANARI Large Ensemble at the tail end of 2024 following two years of production. The CANARI LE forms a major new output from CANARI. It is the first Single-Model Initial Condition Large Ensemble (SMILE) based on the UK Met Office Climate Model (HadGEM3) at N216…

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New CANARI PhD Opportunities

Ben Harvey — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 14:30:56 +0000

Home / News CANARI scientists are embedded in many of the UKRI Doctoral Landscape Awards across the UK, and we regularly have opportunities for studying for a PhD on topics related to CANARI science. CANARI Scientists are also contributing to the Advancing the Frontiers of Earth System Prediction (AFESP)…

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The 2024 CANARI Annual Meeting

Ben Harvey — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 13:30:17 +0000

Home / News During 17-19 September we held the 3rd CANARI Annual Meeting. As has become tradition, we gathered at one of our research centres – this time the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Wallingford – for three days of project updates, science highlight talks, posters…

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CANARI at EGU General Assembly 2024

wilcha — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 13:04:22 +0000

Home / News CANARI researchers will be taking part in the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2024 (EGU24) from April 15-19 at the Austria Center, Vienna. This year, we have a wide range of talks and posters where our researchers will present on topics from water resources and modelling sea ice…

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