Temperature modulation of Northern Mid-Latitude Westerly winds intensity and displacement across the warm Pliocene by Ting Chen, Qingsong Liu, Hong Ao, David Ryves

“…Here, we investigate the continuous, long-term evolution of Northern Hemisphere Mid-latitude Westerly winds (NHMW) between 6.5 and 2.5 Ma, using diatoms, aeolian dust grain size, and chemical weathering conditions from a sediment core in the central-north Pacific Ocean. …”
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Seasonal impact-based mapping of compound hazards by John Hillier, Richard S Dixon

“…Here, seasonal impact-based proxies for wintertime flooding and extreme wind are used to map, at 1x1° resolution, the association between these hazards across Europe within 600 years as realized in seasonal hindcast data. …”
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Extreme multi-basin flooding linked with extra-tropical cyclones by Paolo De Luca, John Hillier, Robert Wilby, Nevil W. Quinn, Shaun Harrigan

“…During the most widespread MBF episode, 108 basins (~46% of the study area) recorded Annual Maximum (AMAX) discharge within a 16-day window. …”
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Extreme multi-basin flooding linked with extra-tropical cyclones [Poster] by Paolo De Luca, John Hillier, Robert Wilby, Nevil W. Quinn, Shaun Harrigan

“…During the most widespread MBF episode, 108 basins (~46% of the study area) recorded Annual Maximum (AMAX) discharge within a 16-day window. …”
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Trapped lee wave interactions with an offshore wind farm by Sarah Ollier

“…TLWs were frequently observed in the region of WMR with 45 TLW events detected in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images at WMR offshore wind farm over a two-year period (01.01.2016 - 31.12.17). …”
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Precipitation characteristics and moisture source regions on Mt. Everest in the Khumbu, Nepal by L Baker Perry, Tom Matthews, Heather Guy, Inka Koch, Arbindra Khadka, Aurora Elmore, Dibas Shrestha, Subash Tuladhar, Saraju Baidya, Sunny Maharjan, Patrick Wagnon, Deepak Aryal, Anton Seimon, Ananta Gajurel, Paul Mayewski

“…Precipitation is critical to the water towers of the Hindu Kush-Himalaya-Karakoram region, exerting an important control on glacier mass balance and the water resources for 1.65 billion people. As hydroclimatic extremes and water stress have emerged as key hazards in the context of climate change, Nepal’s Khumbu region overlaps key vulnerabilities. …”
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A seasonal forecasting procedure for reservoir inflows in Central Asia by Samuel G Dixon, Robert Wilby

“…During 1941–2016, mean summer inflows to Nurek reservoir linked to previous November–December Niño 3.4 achieved a Heidke Hit Proportion of 51–59% (compared with 33% expected by chance). …”
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Modelling the impact of trapped lee waves on offshore wind farm power output by Sarah Ollier, Simon Watson

“…This parametric study investigates the potential impact of TLWs on a UK near-coastal offshore wind farm, Westermost Rough (WMR), resulting from westerly–southwesterly flow over topography in the southeast of England. …”
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Diurnal and seasonal source‐proximal dust concentrations in complex terrain, West Greenland by Joanna Bullard, Clay Prater, Matthew Baddock, Nicholas John Anderson

“…Measured dust concentrations were a similar order of magnitude to source-proximal values measured globally and varied from 0 to ≥1000 μg m−3. …”
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A 305-year continuous monthly rainfall series for the island of Ireland (1711-2016) by Conor Murphy, Ciaran Broderick, Timothy P. Burt, Mary Curley, Catriona Duffy, Julia Hall, Shaun Harrigan, Tom Matthews, Neil Macdonald, Gerard McCarthy, Mark P. McCarthy, Donal Mullan, Simon Noone, Timothy J. Osborn, Ciara Ryan, John Sweeney, Peter W. Thorne, Seamus Walsh, Robert Wilby

“…The IoI-1711 series has remarkably wet winters during the 1730s, concurrent with a period of strong westerly airflow, glacial advance throughout Scandinavia and near unprecedented warmth in the Central England Temperature record - all consistent with a strongly positive phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation. …”
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Indirect impact of landslide hazards on transportation infrastructure by Benjamin F. Postance

“…Impact assessments for historic scenarios are 29 to 83 % greater than previous, including £1.2 million of indirect impacts over 15 days of disruption at the A83 Rest and Be Thankful landslide October 2007. …”
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European precipitation connections with large-scale mean sea-level pressure (MSLP) fields by David Lavers, Christel Prudhomme, David M. Hannah

“…These space-time shifts in correlation regions explain why fixed-point NAO indices have limited ability to resolve precipitation for some European locations and seasons.Editor Z.W. Kundzewicz; Associate editor A. MontanariCitation Lavers, D., Prudhomme, C., and Hannah, D.M., 2013. …”
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Sources and pathways of dust during the Australian 'Millennium Drought' decade by Tadhg O'Loingsigh, Thomas Chubb, Matthew Baddock, Tyler Kelly, Nigel J. Tapper, Patrick De Deckker, Grant H. McTainsh

“…The Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory model was used to calculate 1.26 million backward trajectories from receptor cities, with only those trajectories associated with a dust storm observation considered in the analysis of dust transport. …”
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