Browsing by Author "Knox, Jerry"

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    Climate change and water in the UK – past changes and future prospects
    (SAGE, 2015-02-09) Watts, Glenn; Battarbee, Richard W.; Bloomfield, John P.; Daccache, Andre; Hess, Tim; Knox, Jerry; Weatherhead, E. Keith
    Climate change is expected to modify rainfall, temperature and catchment hydrological responses across the world, and adapting to these water-related changes is a pressing challenge. This paper reviews the impact of anthropogenic climate change on water in the UK and looks at projections of future change. The natural variability of the UK climate makes change hard to detect; only historical increases in air temperature can be attributed to anthropogenic climate forcing, but over the last 50 years more winter rainfall has been falling in intense events. Future changes in rainfall and evapotranspiration could lead to changed flow regimes and impacts on water quality, aquatic ecosystems and water availability. Summer flows may decrease on average, but floods may become larger and more frequent. River and lake water quality may decline as a result of higher water temperatures, lower river flows and increased algal blooms in summer, and because of higher flows in the winter. In communicating this important work, researchers should pay particular attention to explaining confidence and uncertainty clearly. Much of the relevant research is either global or highly localized: decision-makers would benefit from more studies that address water and climate change at a spatial and temporal scale appropriate for the decisions they make.
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    Coping with drought and water scarcity: lessons for the agricultural sector
    (Cranfield University, 2021-10-15 09:33) Holman, Ian; Knox, Jerry; Hess, Tim; McEwen, Lindsey; Salmoral Portillo, Gloria; Rey Vicario, Dolores; Hannaford, Jamie; Grove, Ivan; Thompson, Jill; Quinn, Nevil
    This report, an output from the UKRI-funded Drought and Water Scarcity Programme, synthesis the insights for the agricultural sector. It considers how drought and water scarcity affect different types of agriculture; whether we can forecast drought and its impacts and how drought and water scarcity impacts on agriculture be reduced?
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    DRisk annual maximum potential soil moisture deficit (1900-2006) derived using MaRIUS large dataset
    (Cranfield University, 2018-07-12 11:27) Holman, Ian; Knox, Jerry; Haro, David
    One set of 100 time series (as CSV) of annual maximum potential soil moisture deficit (PSMDmax) for 1900-2006 by a rotated longitude-latitude grid at a 0.22 degree resolution (European CORDEX grid) over a domain encompassing the United Kingdom. Driving variables are monthly precipitation and reference evapotranspiration (from HadRM3P, the regional climate model within weather@home2) created within the MaRIUS project (Managing the Risks, Impacts and Uncertainties of drought and water Scarcity), which are available for download from http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/0cea8d7aca57427fae92241348ae9b03
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    Evidence review of smallholder adaptation to climate change
    (Cranfield University, 2021-10-25 09:14) Knox, Jerry
    The aim of this IFAD funded systematic review was to assess the extent to which learning outcomes have supported initiatives to mainstream adaptation for smallholder agriculture, focussing on three key areas, (i) scaling up climate sensitive adaptive interventions, (ii) the role of knowledge management to promote effective adaptive solutions, and (iii) human-ecosystem interactions in climate change adaptation. The dataset provides a summary of the evidence identified as part of the bibliographic searches and the analyses that were then conducted on the screened data.
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    Historic droughts and irrigated agriculture - Interviews with growers in the Anglian region (UK)
    (Cranfield University, 2018-07-31 14:08) Rey Vicario, Dolores; Holman, Ian; Knox, Jerry
    This dataset contains the transcripts of interviews with irrigators in the Anglian region (UK) carried out between February 2015 and March 2016. A total of 15 growers participated in this study (nine face-to-face and six by phone). The interviews were recorded, transcribed and carefully anonymised. Each file contains the transcripts of one interview with a grower. On the front page there is information regarding the name of the interviewers, the date and the region (NUTS3) where the farm is located. Then, the whole interview transcript is available. Only those details that could lead to the identification of the participant or any confidential comment (as stated by the participant during the interview) have been removed.
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    Interviews about the resilience of UK field vegetable production systems to water risks
    (Cranfield University, 2021-09-30 16:07) Sutcliffe, Chloe; Hess, Tim; Knox, Jerry
    Transcripts of semi-structured interviews (conducted 2017 and 2018) with field vegetable growers and ex-growers in eastern England. Discussions focus on water risks, irrigation and agricultural technology, relationships with regulators, retailers and consumers and how field vegetable production systems and supply chains are changing over time.
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    Rainwater Harvesting (RWH) tool for soft fruit production in polytunnels
    (Cranfield University, 2021-07-30 16:47) Knox, Jerry; Panigrahi, Niranjan; Hess, Tim; Holman, Ian
    Working with growers and key stakeholders in Kent, and with funding from Kent County Council, researchers from Cranfield University have designed and developed a simple Microsoft Excel-based tool to help soft fruit growers and farm business advisors evaluate the hydrological performance and water storage effectiveness of RWH systems to support decision making regarding their viability for protected cropping. The tool was designed to be simple and intuitive to use and requires only a very limited set of farm level input data. The outputs include the MS excel RWH tool and a Guidance manual for end users.
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    Supplementary information for paper "Meta-analysis of climate impacts and uncertainty on crop yields in Europe"
    (Cranfield University, 2021-09-20 12:15) Knox, Jerry; Hess, Tim; Haro, David; Daccache, Andre
    Data used for meta analysis
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    Trade-offs and reconciling competing demands for water - integrating agriculture into a robust decision-making framework (data)
    (Cranfield University, 2018-02-22 10:55) Knox, Jerry; Hess, Tim; Morris, Joe; Haro, David
    Supporting information for paper from Anglian Water funded Water Resources East project