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Caroline Wainwright (nee Dunning) @carolinewainwright.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Earlier this year I spent a week in #Kenya meeting with energy stakeholders to talk about how subseasonal weather forecasts can support energy planning in #Kenya, and their transition to 100% renewables. See the @ncas-uk.bsky.social news story linked below for more information about the project!

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Caroline Wainwright (nee Dunning) @carolinewainwright.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Absolutely chucking it down in #Nairobi - and the FASTA app agrees! And yes, yes I went and stood in the heavy rain to try and get photos and videos of the #longrains to use in presentations.

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Caroline Wainwright (nee Dunning) @carolinewainwright.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Finishing the week in #Kenya at ICPAC - great to catch up with colleagues there and hear about the work they are doing. And to complete a week on renewable energy we even had a look at their solar panels!

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Caroline Wainwright (nee Dunning) @carolinewainwright.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Watching the cloud build and the #rain get closer on the FASTA app - think I might need a raincoat for this afternoon! #kenya #rain #nowcasting

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Caroline Wainwright (nee Dunning) @carolinewainwright.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

After a week talking about wind and solar power in Kenya it was great to visit the Ngong Hills wind farm and talk with the engineers there about how forecasts would be used in their decision making.

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Caroline Wainwright (nee Dunning) @carolinewainwright.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Yesterday we had meetings at the University of Nairobi - exciting to see the SWIFT-NESST laboratory and find work we'd collaborated on displayed round the room!

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Caroline Wainwright (nee Dunning) @carolinewainwright.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Meeting rooms on the 16th floor give great views over Nairobi and a great place to watch clouds from!

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Caroline Wainwright (nee Dunning) @carolinewainwright.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

In Kenya this week for the POWER-Kenya (Potential of sub-seasonal Operational Weather and climate information for building Energy Resilience in Kenya) kick off meeting, meeting with stakeholders from the Kenyan energy sector and Kenya Meteorological Department and hearing their thoughts & priorities

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Caroline Wainwright (nee Dunning) @carolinewainwright.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

New paper published! Wet season onset is really important for farmers in West Africa, but can sub-seasonal forecasts be used to produce onset forecasts to support decision making? Here we explore the skill of S2S forecasts in forecasting onset over Ghana. www.frontiersin.org/journals/cli...

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Caroline Wainwright (nee Dunning) @carolinewainwright.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Great poster session with the Climate Futures students today, where they presented their posters on their group research projects. There were some great posters looking at the climate impacts of seagrass, reducing aviation, painting buildings white, and aerosols. We even had vegan mince pies!

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Caroline Wainwright (nee Dunning) @carolinewainwright.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

#Agricultural advisories are key for helping farmers to prepare for the upcoming season. New #PhD opportunity looking at "integrating weather and climate information into ... agricultural advisories" in #Kenya. @envleeds.bsky.social More here 👉 unrisk-cdt.ac.uk/projects/int...

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Caroline Wainwright (nee Dunning) @carolinewainwright.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Seasonal #forecasts of the #EastAfrica Long Rains are quite poor - can we use #MachineLearning to improve this? We are advertising a new #PhD opportunity on using #MachineLearning to improve forecasts for the Long Rains More info here 👉 yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/a-m... @envleeds.bsky.social

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Caroline Wainwright (nee Dunning) @carolinewainwright.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Thanks Bert! Woke up to ankle deep snow in West Yorkshire this morning. #uksnow #snow #yorkshire

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Caroline Wainwright (nee Dunning) @carolinewainwright.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The forecast was correct! Currently snowing near Leeds, and settling on grass and hedges. #uksnow #snow #weather

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Caroline Wainwright (nee Dunning) @carolinewainwright.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Last week I had the opportunity to work with a fantastic group of young people, who were grappling with the challenges of global climate negotiations through a Mock COP activity. Their enthusiam and passion was so inspiring! You can read more here: t.co/EgYRH4DPrY

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Caroline Wainwright (nee Dunning) @carolinewainwright.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

At the Senedd today at a World Climate Simulation ‘mock COP’ event for local school students, ahead of #COP28. There were keynotes from British Council Wales, WCIA and Julie James MS, and a short talk from me on the science of climate change, before the students got stuck into the negotiations!

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Caroline Wainwright (nee Dunning) @carolinewainwright.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

Taking a quick break from the WCRP #WCRPOSC2023 conference to enjoy the clouds in Kigali! Been a great week, with so many exciting conversations. But my "interesting science to do" list is now very long!

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Caroline Wainwright (nee Dunning) @carolinewainwright.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

Poster is up at #WCRPOSC2023! I'll be at board 13 later talking about recent work looking at the drivers of dry season #rainfall over #EastAfrica.

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Caroline Wainwright (nee Dunning) @carolinewainwright.bsky.social · 22/10/2023

So excited to be in Rwanda for the WCRP Open Science #WCRPOSC2023 conference! Really looking forward to hearing about ongoing work & WCRP activities, & connecting with colleagues. Starting today with the EMCR conference. Really interesting conversations around climate research in the Global South!

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