FEBRUARY 2007 NEWS

Climate Change Research in the EWRE Section

Climate Change is accepted both by the scientific community and leading politicians to be one of the most important challenges facing the world in the 21st century. Imperial has identified Climate Change as a key research objective, and is launching a major initiative in Climate Change Research (www.imperial.ac.uk/climatechange). This has attracted substantial donor support and will create a new focus for the College to integrate and expand existing research activities, including science, policy and mitigation technologies.

The Environmental and Water Resources Engineering section will play a major role in this new activity. Our recent work has focuses on improving the modelling tools available to study scenarios of Global and Regional Climate Change. This has included:

  • Improved modelling of land-surface energy and water exchange and river flows within climate models, using the Nile as a case study
  • Development for the UK government of new stochastic modelling tools for generating rainfall time-series under future climate scenarios
  • Study of the impacts of climate change on floods, water resources and water quality.

Academic staff involved in this research include:
Prof Howard Wheater
Dr. Adrian Butler
Dr. Christian Onof
Dr. Neil McIntyre

See attached additional references 

Dr Bethana JacksonCongratulations to Dr Bethana Jackson for successfully defending her PhD thesis entitled  "Modelling water and solute transport within vegetated soils using a stochastic framework"

 

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