{"id":4966,"date":"2023-05-08T11:21:12","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T11:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/?p=4966"},"modified":"2023-05-08T11:21:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T11:21:12","slug":"noc-storms-waves-uk-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/noc-storms-waves-uk-report\/","title":{"rendered":"NOC Storms &amp; Waves UK Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) have authored a report for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mccip.org.uk\/all-uk\/uk-impacts\/hub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UK Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership<\/a>\u00a0(MCCIP) that shows how UK seas could see significantly higher waves and stronger storms as a result of climate change. The increase in wave heights can be attributed to a variety of factors, including the effect of sea ice loss in the Arctic that has led to sea level rise and increasing wave heights over the period 1992-2014.<\/p>\n<p>The report is part of the MCCIP\u2019s activity to bring cutting-edge science and research to the forefront for scientists, stakeholders, industry bodies and policymakers, helping to inform future policy. The report will directly feed into future reports such as the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/uk-climate-change-risk-assessment-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Climate Change Risk Assessment Report<\/a>, which will assist in planning protections against the threat of future climate change which will exacerbate more extreme weather events.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"nowrap\"><strong>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Storm patterns<\/strong><\/span><strong>\u00a0have been moving towards the poles since the 1990\u2019s increasing the number of storms and storm force winds<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Wave height from these storms have decreased over the last 30 years in the North of the UK and increased in the South<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Continued high rates of damaging emissions could increase the height of severe waves by 2100<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Follow this link to read more about the new report on storms and waves by the <a href=\"https:\/\/noc.ac.uk\/news\/new-report-shows-potential-more-severe-storms-reaching-uk?utm_medium=email&amp;_hsmi=257121751&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_MnifldPrwgowM535svhvpVGHotVFOZwbBS1LohOQj9Kzn_U6AxYlPck9aRPWc9BbfU5KhPxl9CSSEICjF30wB-CmW_w&amp;utm_content=257121751&amp;utm_source=hs_email\">National Oceanography Centre<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow this link to read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mccip.org.uk\/storms-and-waves\">STORMS &amp; WAVES<\/a> report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) have authored a report for the\u00a0UK Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership\u00a0(MCCIP) that shows how UK seas could see significantly higher waves and stronger storms as a result of climate change. The increase in wave heights can be attributed to a variety of factors, including the effect of sea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4967,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966\/revisions\/4967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}