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Briefing Paper 7 - No 7 - Reducing CO2 emissions from heavy industryThis paper outlines the technical options for reducing emissions from industrial processes as well as the policies required to drive these changes
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- Simulation and prediction for sustainable water resources management
Building integrated modelling systems to look at water resources and their management.
Lead researcher: Dr Wouter Buytaert
Theme: Sustainable Futures
- Predictability of Ecological Responses to Climate Change
Investigating how species respond to climate change and how this aligns with the ways we predict these responses.
Lead researcher: Dr Blake Suttle
Theme: Vulnerable Ecosystems & Human Wellbeing
- Extra-tropical ocean-atmosphere coupling through moist convection
Providing a new pathway to communicate oceanic variability to the atmosphere.
Lead researcher: Dr Arnaud Czaja
Theme: Earth Systems Science
- Mitigation potential of new energy technologies
Evaluating a technologies contribution to emissions reduction through analysing their energy cost and economic viability.
Lead researcher: Professor Jenny Nelson
Theme: Sustainable Futures
- Primary production, ecosystem processes and food supplies in a changing world
Developing, testing and improving model predictions.
Lead researcher: Professor Colin Prentice
Theme: Vulnerable Ecosystems & Human Wellbeing
- Advanced computational science for climate modelling
Applying the latest scientific computing and computer science technology to computational problems in the Earth System.
Lead researcher: Dr David Ham
Theme: Earth Systems Science
- Understanding the Impact of Climate Change on Infectious Disease Dynamics
Understanding the response of disease vectors to changes in climatic variables.
Lead researcher: Dr Paul Parham
Theme: Vulnerable Ecosystems & Human Wellbeing
- Scale Interactions in the Oceanic Circulation
Studying the oceanic circulation and the ocean’s role in the climate system.
Lead researcher: Dr Stephanie Waterman
Theme: Earth Systems Science
- Risk in non-ergodic systems
Looking at the history and conceptual basis of our thinking about risk.
Lead researcher: Dr Ole Peters
Theme: Risks, Extremes & Irreversible Change
- Inference from complex models: what can we say about the future climate?
Analysing the sources of uncertainty in different statistical and dynamical model outputs, together with their implications for risk management.
Lead researcher: Erica Thompson
Theme: Risks, Extremes & Irreversible Change
- Predictive modelling of tropical deforestation
Uncovering the factors that predict deforestation at global to local scales.
Lead researcher: Isabel Rosa
Theme: Vulnerable Ecosystems & Human Wellbeing
- Reconstructing the instability of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet
Assessing their stability and the risk of ice-sheet collapse driven by future anthropogenic climate change.
Lead researcher: Carys Cook
Theme: Earth Systems Science
- Analysis of Electric Vehicle
Users' Mobility and Recharging Behaviour
Informing the design of price-based demand side measures to manage the load on the electric grid from EV deployment.
Lead researcher: Nicolò Daina
Theme: Sustainable Futures
- Impact of climate change on crop diseases
Estimating the change in risk to UK wheat under future climate scenarios, of a fungal disease, Fusarium Ear Blight (FEB).
Lead researcher: Julia Halder
Theme: Vulnerable Ecosystems & Human Wellbeing
- Simple GCM studies of Stratosphere-Troposphere interactions
Investigating the impact of changes in the stratosphere on the tropospheric circulation, improving our understanding of past and future climates.
Lead researcher: Alice Flint
Theme: Earth Systems Science
- Drought risk under climate change
Developing tools to characterise both the temporal and spatial aspects of rainfall patterns.
Lead researcher: Juan Duan
Theme: Risks, Extremes & Irreversible Change
- Solar Concentrator Photovoltaic Electricity Generation from the Desert
Developing models of CPV system behaviour to improve the accuracy of annual energy yield predictions and configure an optimal system design.
Lead researcher: Alvin Chan
Theme: Sustainable Futures
- The effects of climate change & other drivers on biodiversity loss in West Africa
Modelling household’s decision-making in order to help improve our understanding of how climate change might impact biodiversity in West Africa.
Lead researcher: James McNamara
Theme: Vulnerable Ecosystems & Human Wellbeing
- Efficient Amine-based Carbon Capture for Future Carbon
Neutral Electricity Generation
Enabling more efficient power generation technologies to be developed by minimising the parasitic load on the power plant.
Lead researcher: Danlu Tong
Theme: Sustainable Futures
- Numerical simulations of flow-topography interaction using unstructured grids
Discovering the importance of jets and eddies in closing the momentum balance in the Southern Ocean circulation.
Lead researcher: Alistair McVicar
Theme: Earth Systems Science
- Human health impacts of Climate Change in Bangladesh
Quantitatively assessing the impacts of climate change on human health to develop reliable adaptation options to reduce those impacts.
Lead researcher: Aneire Khan
Theme: Vulnerable Ecosystems & Human Wellbeing
- Predicting the impacts of climate change using grassland communities
Examining how diversity affects ecosystem function, resilience and resistance in the face of extreme natural events and climate change.
Lead researcher: Kathryn Luckett
Theme: Risks, Extremes & Irreversible Change
- Econometric assessment of the impact of climate change and climate change policies on firms and the economy
Analysing the impact of an existing policy, the EU Emissions Trading System, on the energy use, innovation and competitiveness of industrial firms.
Lead researcher: Dr Mirabelle Muuls
Theme: Risks, Extremes & Irreversible Change
- Index-based extreme weather events risk transfer and mitigation
Using new models to assess the impacts of extreme climatic events on an economy under different climate change scenarios.
Lead researcher: Erik Chavez
Theme: Risks, Extremes & Irreversible Change
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