Snow can cover the ground in Scotland for a long time. Using daily northern hemisphere snow and ice analysis data from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center, the following map shows the estimated number of days of snow cover (~1 to 151 days) across Scotland between 1st January 2020 and 30th December 2020. …
Scotland’s Rainfall in 2020
From the western Highlands (one of the wettest parts of Europe) to the east coast lowlands, the amount of rainfall experienced by Scotland varies a lot. Using Tanaka contours and precipitation estimates derived from combined microware and infra red satellite data from the Giovanni service at NASA Earth Data, the following map was produced to …
Hazards
It has been five years since the United Nations adopted three landmark agreements. 1. The Paris Agreement on Climate Change 2. The Sustainable Development Goals of Agenda 2030 3. The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and the International Science Council (ISC) recently published the Sendai Hazard …
Scotland’s Councils Planning and Air Quality Management
Scottish Government recently published an improving air quality outcomes research report prepared by SLR Consulting Ltd in support of the development of the forthcoming National Planning Framework 4 (NPF4). NPF4 will be the long-term spatial plan for Scotland that sets out where development and infrastructure is needed to support sustainable and inclusive growth. It is …
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