Senior Lecturer in Water & Environmental Engineering, University of Strathclyde
Dr White is the Director of Postgraduate Research and part of the Water, Environment, Sustainability and Public Health (WESP) research centre in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Strathclyde. His research focuses on natural hazards (including floods, droughts and heatwaves), surface water hydrology and resources, risk management and climate change resilience. He specialises in understanding natural hazards and risk from both physical causative and impacts perspectives, centred on the understanding, modelling and prediction of extreme weather events on both the extended-range (e.g. weeks to months) forecasting timescales, referred to as subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S), and climate timescales (e.g. up to the end of the century) using regional high-resolution and global climate projections.
This is the hottest autumn on record – and it's impacting the climate system and human society
Nov 15, 2023 01:47 am UTC| Nature
We are still getting used to a new normal of devastating summer heatwaves. But the effects of a warming climate are being felt throughout the year, and recent autumn months have been further off the charts than ever. In...
Flash flooding is a serious threat in the UK – here's how scientists are tackling its prediction
Dec 09, 2019 04:46 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Its becoming a familiar scene on the news: sodden British people wading through streets up to their knees in flood water. From Stirling to Sheffield, many parts of the UK in 2019 felt the impact of severe surface water...
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