Dr. Ambrogio Volonté
Senior Research Fellow (NCAS)
Responsibilities:
Research Scientist in the Dynamics of Arctic CyclonesCurrent Research Projects:
- Arctic Summertime Cyclones - Dynamics and Sea-Ice Interaction (PDRA - NERC Standard Grant)
Project website
- A global climatology of sting-jet cyclones (Researcher Co-I - NERC EtF Grant)
- MiLCMOP - Mid-Latitude Controls on Monsoon Onset and Progression (Researcher Co-I - NERC Standard Grant)
Previous Research Projects:
- COSMIC: COnvective-Scale Modelling In China - forcings, variability and upscale effects (CSSP-China)
- INCOMPASS: Interaction of Convective Organisation with Monsoon Precipitation, Atmosphere, Surface and Sea (jointly funded by NERC in the UK and by the Ministry of Earth Sciences in India)
- Sting jet windstorms in current and future climates (AXA Research Fund)
Research Interests:
- Arctic, extratropical, mediterranean cyclones
- Sting jets and other cyclone airflows
- Dynamics of monsoons
- Synoptic and mesoscale meteorology
- Lagrangian analysis of air masses
- Process-based analysis of weather phenomena
Centaur Publications
2024
Charlton-Perez, A., Dacre, H., Driscoll, S., Gray, S. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8658-362X, Harvey, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6510-8181, Harvey, N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0973-5794, Hunt, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755, Lee, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1946-5559, Swaminathan, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5853-2673, Vandaele, R. and Volonte, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0278-952X
(2024)
Do AI models produce better weather forecasts than physics-based models? A quantitative evaluation case study of Storm Ciarán.
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science.
ISSN 2397-3722
(In Press)
2023
Croad, H. L., Methven, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7636-6872, Harvey, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6510-8181, Keeley, S. P. E., Volonté, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0278-952X and Hodges, K. I.
(2023)
A climatology of summer-time Arctic cyclones using a modified phase space.
Geophysical Research Letters, 50 (22).
e2023GL105993.
ISSN 1944-8007
doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL105993
Croad, H. L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5124-4860, Methven, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7636-6872, Harvey, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6510-8181, Keeley, S. P. E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8046-765X and Volonté, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0278-952X
(2023)
The role of boundary layer processes in summer-time Arctic cyclones.
Weather and Climate Dynamics, 4 (3).
pp. 617-638.
ISSN 2698-4016
doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-4-617-2023
Volonté, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0278-952X, Gray, S. L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8658-362X, Clark, P. A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1001-9226, Martínez-Alvarado, O. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5285-0379 and Ackerley, D.
(2023)
Strong surface winds in Storm Eunice. Part 2: airstream analysis.
Weather.
ISSN 1477-8696
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/wea.4401
Volonté, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0278-952X, Gray, S. L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8658-362X, Clark, P. A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1001-9226, Martínez-Alvarado, O. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5285-0379 and Ackerley, D.
(2023)
Strong surface winds in Storm Eunice. Part 1: storm overview and indications of sting-jet activity from observations and model data.
Weather.
ISSN 1477-8696
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/wea.4402
2022
Menon, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9347-0578, Turner, A. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876, Volonte, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0278-952X, Taylor, C. M., Webster, S. and Martin, G.
(2022)
The role of mid-tropospheric moistening and land surface wetting in the progression of the 2016 Indian monsoon.
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 148 (747).
pp. 3033-3055.
ISSN 1477-870X
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4183
Volonté, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0278-952X, Turner, A. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876, Schiemann, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3095-9856, Vidale, P. L. and Klingaman, N. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2927-9303
(2022)
Characterising the interaction of tropical and extratropical air masses controlling East Asian summer monsoon progression using a novel frontal detection approach.
Weather and Climate Dynamics, 3 (2).
pp. 575-599.
ISSN 2698-4024
doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-3-575-2022
2021
Volonte, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0278-952X, Muetzelfeldt, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6851-7351, Schiemann, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3095-9856, Turner, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876 and Klingaman, N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2927-9303
(2021)
Magnitude, scale, and dynamics of the 2020 Mei Yu rains and floods over China.
Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 38.
pp. 2082-2096.
ISSN 0256-1530
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-021-1085-z
2020
Volonté, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0278-952X, Turner, A. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876 and Menon, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9347-0578
(2020)
Airmass analysis of the processes driving the progression of the Indian summer monsoon.
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 146 (731).
pp. 2949-2980.
ISSN 1477-870X
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3700
Turner, A. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876, Bhat, G. S., Martin, G. M., Parker, D. J., Taylor, C.M., Mitra, A. K., Tripathi, S. N., Milton, S., Rajagopal, E. N., Evans, J. G., Morrison, R., Pattnaik, S., Sekhar, M., Bhattacharya, B. K., Madan, R., Govindankutty, M., Fletcher, J. K., Willetts, P. D., Menon, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9347-0578, Marsham, J. H., Hunt, K. M. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755, Chakraborty, T., George, G., Krishnan, M., Sarangi, C., Belusic, D., Garcia-Carreras, L., Brooks, M., Webster, S., Brooke, J. K., Fox, C., Harlow, R. C., Langridge, J. M., Jayakumar, A., Boeing, S. J., Halliday, O., Bowles, J., Kent, J., O'Sullivan, D., Wilson, A., Woods, C., Rogers, S., Smout-Day, R., Tiddeman, D., Desai, D., Nigam, R., Paleri, S., Sattar, A., Smith, M., Anderson, D., Bauguitte, S., Carling, R., Chan, C., Devereau, S., Gratton, G., MacLeod, D., Nott, G., Pickering, M., Price, H., Rastall, S., Reed, C., Trembath, J., Woolley, A., Volonté, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0278-952X and New, B.
(2020)
Interaction of convective organisation with monsoon precipitation, atmosphere, surface and sea: the 2016 INCOMPASS field campaign in India.
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 146 (731).
pp. 2828-2852.
ISSN 1477-870X
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3633
Volonté, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0278-952X, Clark, P. A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1001-9226 and Gray, S. L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8658-362X
(2020)
Idealised simulations of cyclones with robust symmetrically-unstable sting jets.
Weather and Climate Dynamics, 1 (1).
pp. 63-91.
ISSN 2698-4024
doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-1-63-2020
2018
Volonté, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0278-952X, Clark, P. A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1001-9226 and Gray, S. L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8658-362X
(2018)
The role of mesoscale instabilities in the sting-jet dynamics of windstorm Tini.
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 144 (712).
pp. 877-899.
ISSN 1477-870X
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3264
Volonté, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0278-952X
(2018)
Dynamics of sting jets and their relation to larger-scale drivers.
PhD thesis, University of Reading.
2016
Davolio, S., Volonté, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0278-952X, Manzato, A., Pucillo, A., Cicogna, A. and Ferrario, M.E.
(2016)
Mechanisms producing different precipitation patterns over north‐eastern Italy: insights from HyMeX‐SOP1 and previous events.
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 142 (S1).
pp. 188-205.
ISSN 1477-870X
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.2731
Last update: 8th February 2024
