All Outputs (25)

The influence of the North Atlantic oscillation & East Atlantic pattern on drought in British catchments (2022)
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West, H., Quinn, N., & Horswell, M. (2022). The influence of the North Atlantic oscillation & East Atlantic pattern on drought in British catchments. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 10, Article 754597. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.754597

Drought events are influenced by a combination of both climatic and local catchment characteristics. In Great Britain the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) has long been recognised as the leading mode of climate variability, and studies have also note... Read More about The influence of the North Atlantic oscillation & East Atlantic pattern on drought in British catchments.

The spatio-temporal influence of atmospheric circulations on monthly precipitation in Great Britain (2022)
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West, H., White, P., Quinn, N., & Horswell, M. (2022). The spatio-temporal influence of atmospheric circulations on monthly precipitation in Great Britain. Atmosphere, 13(3), Article 429. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos13030429

It has long been understood that the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) is a key driver of regional climate in Great Britain and across Europe. However, studies have also noted that there is spatio-temporal variability in NAO-rainfall signatures which... Read More about The spatio-temporal influence of atmospheric circulations on monthly precipitation in Great Britain.

Spatio-temporal propagation of North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) rainfall deviations to streamflow in British catchments (2022)
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West, H., Quinn, N., & Horswell, M. (2022). Spatio-temporal propagation of North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) rainfall deviations to streamflow in British catchments. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 67(5), 676-688. https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2022.2038791

The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) teleconnection is often cited as the leading mode of climate variability in Great Britain. The NAO has been found to produce significant rainfall deviations that vary in space and time. This study sought to analys... Read More about Spatio-temporal propagation of North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) rainfall deviations to streamflow in British catchments.

Monthly rainfall signatures of the North Atlantic oscillation and East Atlantic pattern in Great Britain (2021)
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West, H., Quinn, N., & Horswell, M. (2021). Monthly rainfall signatures of the North Atlantic oscillation and East Atlantic pattern in Great Britain. Atmosphere, 12(11), Article 1533. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos12111533

Atmospheric-oceanic circulations (teleconnections) have an important influence on regional climate. In Great Britain, the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) has long been understood as the leading mode of climate variability, and its phase and magnitud... Read More about Monthly rainfall signatures of the North Atlantic oscillation and East Atlantic pattern in Great Britain.

Geospatial cluster analysis of the state, duration and severity of drought over Paraíba State, northeastern Brazil (2021)
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Brasil Neto, R. M., Santos, C. A. G., Silva, R. M. D., Santos, C. A. C. D., Liu, Z., & Quinn, N. W. (2021). Geospatial cluster analysis of the state, duration and severity of drought over Paraíba State, northeastern Brazil. Science of the Total Environment, 799, Article 149492. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149492

Droughts threaten water resources, agriculture, socio-economic activities and the population at the global and regional level, so identifying areas with homogeneous drought behaviors is an important consideration in improving the management of water... Read More about Geospatial cluster analysis of the state, duration and severity of drought over Paraíba State, northeastern Brazil.

Spatio-temporal variability in North Atlantic oscillation monthly rainfall signatures in Great Britain (2021)
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West, H., Quinn, N., & Horswell, M. (2021). Spatio-temporal variability in North Atlantic oscillation monthly rainfall signatures in Great Britain. Atmosphere, 12(6), Article 763. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos12060763

The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) is the primary atmospheric-oceanic circulation/teleconnection influencing regional climate in Great Britain. As our ability to predict the NAO several months in advance increases, it is important that we improve o... Read More about Spatio-temporal variability in North Atlantic oscillation monthly rainfall signatures in Great Britain.

Modeling the impacts of future LULC and climate change on runoff and sediment yield in a strategic basin in the Caatinga/Atlantic forest ecotone of Brazil (2021)
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Santos, J. Y. G. D., Montenegro, S. M. G. L., Silva, R. M. D., Santos, C. A. G., Quinn, N. W., Dantas, A. P. X., & Ribeiro Neto, A. (2021). Modeling the impacts of future LULC and climate change on runoff and sediment yield in a strategic basin in the Caatinga/Atlantic forest ecotone of Brazil. CATENA, 203, Article 105308. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2021.105308

Water management in the Caatinga/Atlantic forest ecotone in Brazil is critically dependent on better understanding of potential future changes in streamflow and sediment dynamics. This paper evaluates both the future impacts of land use and land cove... Read More about Modeling the impacts of future LULC and climate change on runoff and sediment yield in a strategic basin in the Caatinga/Atlantic forest ecotone of Brazil.

Remote sensing for drought monitoring & impact assessment: Progress, past challenges and future opportunities (2019)
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West, H., Quinn, N., & Horswell, M. (2019). Remote sensing for drought monitoring & impact assessment: Progress, past challenges and future opportunities. Remote Sensing of Environment, 232, Article 111291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111291

© 2019 Elsevier Inc. Drought is a common hydrometeorological phenomenon and a pervasive global hazard. As our climate changes, it is likely that drought events will become more intense and frequent. Effective drought monitoring is therefore critical,... Read More about Remote sensing for drought monitoring & impact assessment: Progress, past challenges and future opportunities.

Regional rainfall response to the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) across Great Britain (2019)
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West, H., Quinn, N., & Horswell, M. (2019). Regional rainfall response to the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) across Great Britain. Hydrology Research, 50(6), 1549-1563. https://doi.org/10.2166/nh.2019.015

© IWA Publishing 2019. The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) has been long studied as the primary teleconnection affecting the British and European climate. However, previous studies have focused on extremes or have been spatially and temporally limit... Read More about Regional rainfall response to the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) across Great Britain.

Demystifying academics to enhance university-business collaborations in environmental science (2019)
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Hillier, J. K., Saville, G. R., Smith, M. J., Scott, A. J., Raven, E. K., Gascoigne, J., …Craig, J. (2019). Demystifying academics to enhance university-business collaborations in environmental science. Geoscience Communication, 2(1), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-2-1-2019

In countries globally there is intense political interest in fostering effective university-business collaborations, but there has been scant attention devoted to exactly how an individual scientist's workload (i.e. specified tasks) and incentive str... Read More about Demystifying academics to enhance university-business collaborations in environmental science.

Assessing vegetation response to soil moisture fluctuation under extreme drought using sentinel-2 (2018)
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West, H., Quinn, N., Horswell, M., & White, P. (2018). Assessing vegetation response to soil moisture fluctuation under extreme drought using sentinel-2. Water, 10(7), Article 838. https://doi.org/10.3390/w10070838

© 2018 by the authors. The aim of this study was to determine the extent to which Sentinel-2 Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) reflects soil moisture conditions, and whether this product offers an improvement over Landsat-8. Based on drou... Read More about Assessing vegetation response to soil moisture fluctuation under extreme drought using sentinel-2.

Exploring the sensitivity of coastal inundation modelling to DEM vertical error (2018)
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West, H., Horswell, M., & Quinn, N. (2018). Exploring the sensitivity of coastal inundation modelling to DEM vertical error. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 32(6), 1172-1193. https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2018.1444165

© 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. As sea level is projected to rise throughout the twenty-first century due to climate change, there is a need to ensure that sea level rise (SLR) models accurately and defensibly represen... Read More about Exploring the sensitivity of coastal inundation modelling to DEM vertical error.

A systems approach to risk and resilience analysis in the woody-biomass sector: A case study of the failure of the South African wood pellet industry (2017)
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Guilfoyle, M. J., Kotze, D. C., Bowd, R., & Quinn, N. (2018). A systems approach to risk and resilience analysis in the woody-biomass sector: A case study of the failure of the South African wood pellet industry. Biomass and Bioenergy, 108, 126-137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2017.10.032

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Currently more than 600 million of the 800 million people in SSA are without electricity, and it is estimated that an additional 2500 GW of power is required by 2030. Although the woody-biomass market in the developed world is rel... Read More about A systems approach to risk and resilience analysis in the woody-biomass sector: A case study of the failure of the South African wood pellet industry.

Extreme multi-basin flooding linked with extra-tropical cyclones (2017)
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De Luca, P., Hillier, J. K., Wilby, R. L., Quinn, N. W., & Harrigan, S. (2017). Extreme multi-basin flooding linked with extra-tropical cyclones. Environmental Research Letters, 12(11), Article 114009. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa868e

© 2017 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd. Fluvial floods are typically investigated as 'events' at the single basin-scale, hence flood management authorities may underestimate the threat of flooding across multiple basins driven by large... Read More about Extreme multi-basin flooding linked with extra-tropical cyclones.

‘Learning for resilience’: Developing community capital through flood action groups in urban flood risk settings with lower social capital (2017)
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McEwen, L., Holmes, A., Quinn, N., & Cobbing, P. (2018). ‘Learning for resilience’: Developing community capital through flood action groups in urban flood risk settings with lower social capital. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 27, 329-342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2017.10.018

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd The role of civil agency in preparing and adapting to changing risk is an increasingly critical element within devolved local flood risk management. However, effective civil agency for flood resilience needs to draw on, and if nec... Read More about ‘Learning for resilience’: Developing community capital through flood action groups in urban flood risk settings with lower social capital.

As the climate changes: Intergenerational action-based learning in relation to flood education (2016)
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Williams, S., McEwen, L. J., & Quinn, N. (2017). As the climate changes: Intergenerational action-based learning in relation to flood education. Journal of Environmental Education, 48(3), 154-171. https://doi.org/10.1080/00958964.2016.1256261

© 2017 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. It is a concern that children represent an under-researched group in flood education and preparedness because as adults they are more likely to experience flooding as the climate changes, and because it suggests... Read More about As the climate changes: Intergenerational action-based learning in relation to flood education.

Toward an analytical framework for understanding complex socialecological systems when conducting environmental impact assessments in South Africa (2015)
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Bowd, R., Quinn, N., & Kotze, D. (2015). Toward an analytical framework for understanding complex socialecological systems when conducting environmental impact assessments in South Africa. Ecology and Society, 20(1), Article 41. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07057-200141

© 2015 by the author(s). Consideration of biophysical impacts has historically dominated environmental impact assessment (EIA) practice. Despite the emergence of social impact assessment, the consideration of socioeconomic impacts in EIA is variable,... Read More about Toward an analytical framework for understanding complex socialecological systems when conducting environmental impact assessments in South Africa.

Realizing the value of fluvial geomorphology (2015)
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Everard, M., & Quinn, N. (2015). Realizing the value of fluvial geomorphology. International Journal of River Basin Management, 13(4), 487-500. https://doi.org/10.1080/15715124.2015.1048457

© 2015 International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research. Fluvial geomorphological forms and processes exert a fundamental influence on riverine processes and functions. They thereby contribute significantly to beneficial servi... Read More about Realizing the value of fluvial geomorphology.

Reconstructing multi-decadal variations in fluvial flood risk using atmospheric circulation patterns (2013)
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Quinn, N. W., & Wilby, R. L. (2013). Reconstructing multi-decadal variations in fluvial flood risk using atmospheric circulation patterns. Journal of Hydrology, 487, 109-121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.02.038

Conventional techniques for quantifying and then managing flood risks are invalid under 'non-stationary' climate conditions. Trend detection and attribution are problematic given that the outcome depends on the start and end date of the record, choic... Read More about Reconstructing multi-decadal variations in fluvial flood risk using atmospheric circulation patterns.

The identification of potential resilient estuary-based enterprises to encourage economic empowerment in South Africa: A toolkit approach (2012)
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Bowd, R., Quinn, N. W., Kotze, D. C., Hay, D. G., & Mander, M. (2012). The identification of potential resilient estuary-based enterprises to encourage economic empowerment in South Africa: A toolkit approach. Ecology and Society, 17(3), 15. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04840-170315

It has been argued that ecosystem services can be used as the foundation to provide economic opportunities to empower the disadvantaged. The Ecosystem Services Framework (ESF) approach for poverty alleviation, which balances resource conservation and... Read More about The identification of potential resilient estuary-based enterprises to encourage economic empowerment in South Africa: A toolkit approach.