Len Shaffrey

Biographic Data

ID7992874
NAMELen Shaffrey
GIVEN NAMESLen
FAMILY NAMEShaffrey
SIGNATURESHAFFREY L
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Reading
ORCID0000-0003-2696-752X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • Synoptic conditions conducive for compound wind-flood events in Great Britain in present and future climates

    Open AccessHannah Bloomfield, Paul Bates et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    Extreme wind is the main driver of loss in North-West Europe, with flooding being the second-highest driver. These hazards are currently modelled independently, and it is unclear what the contribution of their co-occurrence is to loss. They are often associated with extra-tropical cyclones, with studies focusing on co-occurrence of extreme meteorological variables. However, there has not been a systematic assessment of the meteorological drivers …

  • A critical assessment of the long-term changes in the wintertime surface Arctic Oscillation and Northern Hemisphere storminess in the ERA20C reanalysis

    Open AccessHannah Bloomfield, Len Shaffrey et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    This study investigates the robustness of the long-term changes in the wintertime surface Arctic Oscillation (AO) in the ERA20C reanalysis. A statistically significant trend in the AO is found in ERA20C over the period 1900-2010. These long-term changes in the AO are not found in two other observational datasets. The long-term change in the AO in ERA20C is associated with statistically significant negative trend (approximately -6 hPa per century)…

  • The changing sensitivity of power systems to meteorological drivers

    Open AccessHannah Bloomfield, David Brayshaw et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    The increasing use of intermittent renewable generation (such as wind) is increasing the exposure of national power systems to meteorological variability. This study identifies how the integration of wind power in one particular country (Great Britain, GB) is affecting the overall sensitivity of the power system to weather using three key metrics: total annual energy requirement, peak residual load (from sources other than wind) and wind power cu…

  • Quantifying the increasing sensitivity of power systems to climate variability

    Open AccessHannah Bloomfield, H C Bloomfield et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2016

    Large quantities of weather-dependent renewable energy generation are expected in power systems under climate change mitigation policies, yet little attention has been given to the impact of long term climate variability. By combining state-of-the-art multi-decadal meteorological records with a parsimonious representation of a power system, this study characterises the impact of year-to-year climate variability on multiple aspects of the power sy…

  • Systematic winter sea-surface temperature biases in the northern Arabian Sea in HiGEM and the CMIP3 models

    Open AccessDeepthi Marathayil, Andrew G Turner et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2013

    Analysis of 20th century simulations of the High resolution Global Environment Model (HiGEM) and the Third Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP3) models shows that most have a cold sea-surface temperature (SST) bias in the northern Arabian Sea during boreal winter. The association between Arabian Sea SST and the South Asian monsoon has been widely studied in observations and models, with winter cold biases known to be detrimental to rainfa…