Contact CEH NORA team at noraceh@ceh.ac.ukThe NERC and CEH trademarks and logos ('the Trademarks') are registered trademarks of NERC in the UK and other countries, and may not be used without the prior written consent of the Trademark owner. precipitation set a record (Fig. 3a). Sustained high precipitation amounts 60 during the whole winter led to this record, rather than a few very wet days,
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61and none of the 5-day precipitation averages over the three winter months 62 was a record (Fig. 3b). Similarly, while Thames' daily peak river flows were 63 not exceptional, the 30-day peak flow was the second highest since 64 measurements began in 1883 ( Supplementary Fig. 10 to provide a conservative estimate of uncertainty.
106We consider January precipitation and SLP, with Southern England
107Precipitation (SEP) averaged over land grid points in 50º-52ºN, 6.5ºW-2ºE.
189In the large RCM ensemble, the best estimate for the overall change in risk of is an increase of 43%, with a range from no change to 164% increase 192 associated with uncertainty in the pattern of anthropogenic warming (Fig. 5d). rainfall that we simulate is less on timescales that dominate flooding in this 252 catchment, consistent with the mechanism being an increase in the frequency 253 of the zonal regime, and so, successions of strong but fast-moving storms.
254Outputs from CLASSIC are combined with information about the location of