Professor of #climatechange impacts & #coastalrisk @ #IHEDelft and #Deltares, Netherlands; #IPCC_CH_AR6 Coordinating Lead Author. Trying to do the right thing.
Delft, The Netherlands
Joined September 2021
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Roshanka Ranasinghe retweeted
How much carbon can we emit while limiting warming below 1.5°C?
It was very little and now it's even less.
In a new paper in @NatureClimate we update the @IPCC_CH carbon budget numbers with improved methods and new data. (1/n)
nature.com/articles/s41558-0…
Roshanka Ranasinghe retweeted
Learn to estimate #flood and #coastalerosion risks under a changing climate at our short #course on Flood and Coast Erosion Risk Assessment. Partial #scholarships available. Apply by 20 Oct. More info: un-ihe.org/courses/on-campus…
Expand your 💧 network and join the #IHEcommunity!
Roshanka Ranasinghe retweeted
Climate Change in Data: The Physical Science Basis has been shortlisted among the 25 projects competing for the Rebecca Ballestra Award, honoring top global initiatives raising climate change awareness 🧵1/7 ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/resou… @CmccClimate
Roshanka Ranasinghe retweeted
Global air temperatures remaining much higher than normal for the time of year.
And El Nino is only just starting.
We expect to see more devastating extreme weather events, especially in Australia, South America & Asia in the coming months.
Graphic: @CopernicusECMWF
Coastal impacts of sea level rise are not limited to inundation of low lying coastal areas (i.e. permanent flooding). Sea level rise will increase the frequency of extreme sea levels and associated episodic coastal flooding and coastal erosion. @ipcc @deltares @ihedelft
🌀 Excited to share that our latest research is published in @EarthsFutureEiC. Coastal flooding is increasing globally. Sea-level rise is a key factor, but changes in extremes could make things worse. Despite this, storm surge responses to a warmer climate are poorly understood
Roshanka Ranasinghe retweeted
What can satellite data do for you? 🌊🛰️🌏
Our new paper offers ideas on how coastal communities could use satellite data to dynamically adapt to sea level rise. sciencedirect.com/science/ar… @bhamlington, @daverounce, @R_Collini, @Lijnonline, @bobkopp, @scripps_climate et al.
Roshanka Ranasinghe retweeted
Analysis by NASA of high-resolution climate projections concludes that, if global temperatures keep rising and reach 2C above pre-industrial levels, people worldwide could face multiple impacts of climate change simultaneously, with serious consequences. climate.nasa.gov/news/3278/n…
Roshanka Ranasinghe retweeted
The IPCC is targeting energy production in the west, while ignoring China - solid evidence that this has nothing to do with climate, and everything to do with hurting western countries.
ourworldindata.org/grapher/a…
Roshanka Ranasinghe retweeted
Current policies make it likely that #globalwarming will exceed 1.5°C during the 21st century & make it harder to limit warming below 2°C.
#IPCC's Synthesis Report underscores the urgency of taking more ambitious action. 👉 bit.ly/SRYRpt23
Roshanka Ranasinghe retweeted
Over 9,000 scientists told us about how they use the social-media platform now known as X. More than half of respondents have reduced their time on the platform, and 7% have stopped using it altogether go.nature.com/3sftDEr
Roshanka Ranasinghe retweeted
The @iaeaorg's Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship Programme is now open. Apply early for funded spots in the MSc in Water and Sustainable Development (Oct 2024). Scholarship deadline: Sept 2023. More info: un-ihe.org/news/early-msc-ap… #womeninstem #ihedelft #scholarships #studyinNL
Roshanka Ranasinghe retweeted
Post Doc opportunity in Denmark for a climate modeller interested in extremes.
Apply before 10 September.
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Roshanka Ranasinghe retweeted
We should never forget that low lying island states #sids face an existential threat from climate change. Precisely why we should take ambitious #ClimateAction and not sink into despair. We have agency! @adelle_SIDS is there to remind us in #IPCC .
Roshanka Ranasinghe retweeted
The Aquatic Ecosystems Research Group of IHE Delft is looking for motivated candidates with a keen interest in applied aquatic ecology for supporting livelihoods and sustainable lake management science in the global south. DEADLINE 6th Sept.
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Roshanka Ranasinghe retweeted
🔊🚨Finally! Out this week in @CommsEarth our paper shows that as sea-level rise accelerates due to climate change, its multidisciplinary field of science has similarly expanded over the last 3 decades. A🧵on how this research came about and what we found.
nature.com/articles/s43247-0…
Roshanka Ranasinghe retweeted
Recent research shows that long-term global changes in ocean wave conditions have not produced measurable recession of sandy coastlines.
unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/news…
Roshanka Ranasinghe retweeted
I work on sea level rise, but it always remains striking to hear the future put this way:
.@JFRumble, Head of the Polar Regions Department, @FCDOGovUK: "One of the main impacts of Arctic climate change on the UK will be through sea level rise... we will have to decide which areas of our coast to defend and which to let flood."
ALT Jane Rumble OBE, Head of the Polar Regions Department, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
"long-term changes in oceanographic parameters (such as waves and storm surges) may still be too small to have a measurable impact on shoreline recession/progradation" @ihedelft @deltares
Roshanka Ranasinghe retweeted
Very very bad for Earth 🌍🌏😢 – at Tunisia
After the hottest June on record, July is not looking so fresh either. 🌡️
A major heatwave is predicted to rise temperatures as high as 48°C.
This map shows Land surface temperatures reaching 46°C in Rome and Madrid, and 47°C in Seville.
#Cerberus
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ALT This image uses data from the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission’s radiometer instrument and shows the land surface temperature across Europe and parts of northern Africa in the morning of 10 July 2023. Land surface temperatures hit 46°C in Rome, Italy, while Madrid and Seville reached 46 and 47°C, respectively.