Past Terms’ Meetings
Spring 2024
Autumn 2023
| Week | Date | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 26 September 2023 | No session |
| 2 | 3 October 2023 | Adam Gainford “A new metric for assessing ensemble spread applied to a case of elevated convection” |
| 3 | 10 October 2023 | Hannah Croad and Ambrogio Volonte “Investigating sea ice coupling in ECMWF & UKMO weather forecasts for the summer-time Arctic” |
| 4 | 17 October 2023 | Russell Glazer “Understanding Nocturnally-Driven Extreme Precipitation Events over Lake Victoria in a Convection-Permitting Model” |
| 5 | 24 October 2023 | Kirsty Hanley “Urban-Scale Ensemble Modelling for WesCon” |
| 6 | 31 October 2023 | Neha Skaikh “The Atmospheric Boundary Layer over the Indian Sector of Southern Ocean” |
| 7 | 7 November 2023 | Alanna Power “Modelling Convective Turbulence in Shallow Cumulus Topped Boundary Layers“ |
| 8 | 14 November 2023 | Vibha Selvaratnum “Parametrising turbulence and unresolved motions in atmospheric dispersion models” |
| 9 | 21 November 2023 | Remi Tailleux “An Objective Definition of Potential Vorticity” |
| 10 | 28 November 2023 | Hette Houtman and Isabelle Gorst “Trapped Lees Waves: In Real Life and in the UKV” and “Identifying Horizontal Convective Rolls” |
| 11 | 5 December 2023 | Christmas Quiz |
Summer 2023
| Week | Date | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18 April 2023 | No session |
| 2 | 25 April 2023 | Peter Clark “Atmospheric Rivers, Massflux Convection and Turbulence. A bit of a rant.” |
| 3 | 2 May 2023 | Bring a Plot |
| 4 | 9 May 2023 | No session |
| 5 | 16 May 2023 | Ambrogio Volonte “Step-by-step progress towards a global sting-jet climatology” |
| 6 | 23 May 2023 | Ben Harvey & Oscar Martinez-Alvarado “CANARI Regional Modelling Plans – The storms of the future in a convection-permitting model” |
| 7 | 30 May 2023 | Dan Shipley “Capturing linear instability in Rayleigh-Bénard convection: lessons for convection parametrization“ |
| 8 | 6 June 2023 | Brian Lo “How are ZDR columns represented in the UM?: A tale of two near-operational configurations” |
| 9 | 13 June 2023 | Jake Bland “An example of comparing Eulerian process tendencies to try to understand model behaviour” |
| 10 | 20 June 2023 | Cristian Valer Vraciu, Universitatea din București “The role of passive cumulus clouds in the transition from shallow to deep convection“ |
Spring 2023
| 1 | 10/01/2023 | – |
| 2 | 17/01/2023 | 1st year presentations part 2 Hette Houtman and Isabelle Gorst |
| 3 | 24/01/2023 | Helen Dacre Southern Hemisphere Extratropical Cyclones |
| 4 | 31/01/2023 | Lewis Blunn Two regimes of dispersion in a convective boundary layer from high-resolution NWP |
| 5 | 07/02/2023 | Emanuele Gentile, Princeton University Attribution of observed extreme marine wind speeds and associated hazards to midlatitude cyclone conveyor belt jets near the British Isles |
| 6 | 14/02/2023 | Bring a plot |
| 7 | 21/02/2023 | Miguel Teixeira Attenuation of mountain waves by a boundary layer |
| 8 | 28/02/2023 | Natalie Harvey Comparision of ash emission estimates from the inversion of dispersion simulations and the ATHAM plume model |
| 9 | 07/03/2023 | Charlie Suitters (Some) Dynamics of the European 2019 Winter Heatwave Block |
| 9.5 | 08/03/2023 | Paul Barrett, Heather Moore, Humphrey Lean, Thorwald Stein WesCon 2023 – the Wessex Convection Experiment |
| 10 | 14/03/2023 | ***No meeting*** Quo Vadis 2023 |
| 11 | 21/03/2023 | Tiger Teams: Flynn Ames, Hannah Croad, Adam Gainford, Ieuan Higgs, Brian Lo Crowd-sourced data for machine learning prediction of urban heatwave temperatures |
Autumn 2022
| Week | Date | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| 0.5 | 06/09/2022 | Cristian Vraciu, Universitatea din București The parameterization of atmospheric convection with an energy-consistent plume model |
| 1 | 27/09/2022 | – |
| 2 | 04/10/2022 | Alanna Power Modelling convective turbulence in shallow cumulus convection |
| 3 | 11/10/2022 | Bring a plot |
| 4 | 18/10/2022 | Sue Gray Characterization of sting jet cyclones in Met Office operational global ensemble forecasts |
| 5 | 25/10/2022 | – |
| 6 | 01/11/2022 | Brian Lo Can we see ZDR columns inside storms within the Unified Model? |
| 7 | 08/11/2022 | Adam Gainford Large Scale Blending: a new assimilation scheme to improve forecast initiation in UKV and MOGREPS-UK |
| 8 | 15/11/2022 | Isabel Smith Upper-level atmospheric turbulence projected changes in CMIP6 HighResMIP global climate models |
| 9 | 22/11/2022 | Hannah Croad A modified cyclone phase space for Arctic cyclones |
| 10 | 29/11/2022 | Riccardo Henin, Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC) Italy Assigning precipitation to atmospheric fronts |
| 10.5 | 02/12/2022 | Vinod Kumar, Bureau of Meteorology Australia (joint meeting with Urban-Met) Urban-scale modeling for the Paris Olympics research demonstration project |
| 11 | 06/12/2022 | 1st year presentations part 1 Vibha Selvaratnam and Doug Wood |
Summer 2022
| Week | Date | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 19 April 2022 | – |
| 2 | 26 April 2022 | Bring a Plot |
| 3 | 3 May 2022 | Hannah Croad Boundary Layer Processes in Summer-time Arctic Cyclones |
| 4 | 10 May 2022 | – |
| 5 | 17 May 2022 | Charlie Suitters, Emanuele Gentile, Brian Lo, Isabel Smith Pre-EGU meeting |
| 6 | 24 May 2022 | ***No Meeting*** EGU 2022 |
| 7 | 31 May 2022 | Ambrogio Volonte An example of research flight planning |
| 8 | 7 June 2022 | – |
| 9 | 14 June 2022 | Shammi Akhter High-resolution Global Climate Model simulations of Tropical Cyclones in the Bay of Bengal
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Spring 2022
| Week | Date | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11 Jan 2022 | Dan Shipley Capturing convective initiation with multi-fluid models: lessons from linear instability |
| 2 | 18 Jan 2022 | Brian Lo Identification of ZDR Columns for early detection of severe convection |
| 3 | 25 Jan 2022 | Bring-a-thing or plot |
| 4 | 1 Feb 2022 | Bob Plant Organized Spatial Patterns |
| 5 | 8 Feb 2022 | –Open to speakers– |
| 6 | 15 Feb 2022 | Emanuele Gentile On the predictability of Ianos: a hurricane in the Mediterranean |
| 7 | 22 Feb 2022 | Athul Rasheeda Satheesh How coherent is rainfall in northern tropical Africa in time and space – and why? |
| 8 | 1 Mar 2022 | **No Meeting** Quo Vadis 2022 |
| 9 | 8 Mar 2022 | Oscar Martinez-Alvarado Weather patterns over Southeast Asia: definition, relationship with high-impact weather and applications on sub-seasonal forecasting |
| 10 | 15 Mar 2022 | Iliana Polychroni and Sophie Cuckow “Combined extreme climate indices over the Mediterranean region. Variability and trends analysis” and “The contribution of moisture in the pre-extratropical cyclone environment to precipitation” |
| 11 | 22 Mar 2022 | Miguel Teixeira The importance of weak dissipation for the drag exerted by trapped lee waves on the atmospheric flow |
| 12 | 29 Mar 2022 | Humphrey Lean 100m scale modelling: plans and challenges |
Autumn 2021
| Week | Date | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 5 Oct 2021 | Aurore Porson Part 1: Overview of ensemble research at the Met Office with MOGREPS-UK. Part 2: A few words about the latest summer UK testbed |
| 3 | 12 Oct 2021 | James Fallon GB Industry Electricity use in Extreme Weather: Understanding impacts & solutions |
| 4 | 19 Oct 2021 | Lea Eisenstein Towards an objective identification of high-wind features within extratropical cyclones |
| 5 | 26 Oct 2021 | George Varlas Simulating air-sea interaction with a coupled modelling system: operation aspects and applications on cyclones |
| 6 | 2 Nov 2021 | Kris Boykin An upcoming testbed |
| 7 | 9 Nov 2021 | Elliott Sainsbury Why do some recurving North Atlantic Tropical Cyclones impact Europe |
| 8 | 16 Nov 2021 | Helen Dacre Extratropical cyclone induced sea surface temperature anomalies |
| 9 | 23 Nov 2021 | Shammi Akhter Tropical cyclone over the Bay of Bengal in PRIMaVERA climate models |
| 10 | 30 Nov 2021 | First Year PhD Students Introduction to projects |
| 11 | 7 Dec 2021 | Jake Bland Understanding near-tropopause biases in forecasts |
| 12 | 14 Dec 2012 | Christmas Social |
Summer 2021
| Week | Date | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 4 May 2021 | Carlo Cafaro How to evaluate novel convection-permitting ensembles for forecasting convection in Tropical East Africa |
| 3 | 11 May 2021 | Ambrogio Volonte’ The development of Arctic summer cyclones in model simulations (IFS vs MetUM runs): a pre- field campaign case study |
| 4 | 18 May 2021 | John Methven Exploring the dynamics of the Borneo vortex |
| 5 | 25 May 2021 | Remi Tailleux Available potential energy and stability in stratified fluids |
| 6 | 1 June 2021 | Alanna Power Turbulence in the Grey Zone |
| 7 | 8 June 2021 | Stavros Dafis The convective evolution of Mediterranean Tropical-Like Cyclones (medicanes) |
| 8 | 15 June 2021 | Victoria Sinclair Relationship between precipitation and extra-tropical cyclone intensity and structure now and in the future |
| 9 | 22 June 2021 | **Cancelled** ———————- |
| 10 | 29 June 2021 | Bring a thing, or paper! Discussion of current work in the group |
| 11 | 6 July 2021 | Sophie Cuckow and Charlie Suitters “The relative local and non-local sources of moisture for extratropical cyclone precipitation” and “Comparing Different Methods for Detecting Atmospheric Blocking” |
Spring 2021
| Week | Date | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 19 Jan 2021 | Bring-a-thing Discussion of current work in the group |
| 3 | 26 Jan 2021 | **Cancelled** ——————– |
| 4 | 2 Feb 2021 | Elliott Sainsbury How important are post-tropical cyclones for European wind and precipitation risk? |
| 5 | 9 Feb 2021 | Bring-a-thing 2 For things there was no time for on the 19th |
| 6 | 16 Feb 2021 | No Meeting: Enhancement Week |
| 7 | 23 Feb 2021 | Florian Pantillon High-resolution simulations of extratropical cyclones |
| 8 | 2 Mar 2021 | Oscar Martinez-Alvarado Recent and current research on sting jets: Operational forecasts and high-resolution global modelling |
| 9 | 9 Mar 2021 | Natalie Harvey To fly or not to fly? Improving volcanic ash forecasts for aviation. |
| 10 | 16 Mar 2021 | Peter Clark What is a `TKE‘ turbulence or boundary-layer scheme? |
| 11 | 23 Mar 2021 | Shammi Akhter Controls on the Genesis and Intensity of Tropical Cyclones in the Bay of Bengal |
Autumn 2020
| Week | Date | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 Oct 2020 | What are you working on at the moment? Discussion of current work in the group |
| 2 | 13 Oct 2020 | Dan Shipley Multi-fluid parametrisation of convection: a simple two-fluid single-column model |
| 3 | 20 Oct 2020 | Helen Dacre Where, when and why do extratropical cyclones cluster? |
| 4 | 27 Oct 2020 | Jake Bland Temperature biases in the extratropical lower stratosphere |
| 5 | 3 Nov 2020 | No Meeting: Visiting Scientist week |
| 6 | 10 Nov 2020 | Emanuele Gentile The impact of atmosphere-ocean-wave coupling on extreme surface wind forecasts |
| 7 | 17 Nov 2020 | Godwin Ayesiga The representation of intra-equatorial Africa precipitation and Kelvin waves in CP4A |
| 8 | 24 Nov 2020 | Bob Plant Dynamic Smagorinsky and Blending in the Grey Zone of the Evolving Dry Convective Boundary Layer |
| 9 | 1 Dec 2020 | Sophie Cuckow Characterising Low-Level, Moist Airflows associated with Extratropical Cyclones |
| 10 | 8 Dec 2020 | Sue Gray The role of tropopause polar vortices in the intensification of Summer Arctic cyclones |
| 11 | 15 Dec 2020 | First Year PhD Students |
Summer 2020
| Week | Date | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 21 Apr 2020 | Jian-Feng Gu Evaluation of bulk mass flux formulation using large eddy simulations |
| 2 | 28 Apr 2020 | Bring a Plot! Any plot you like! |
| 3 | 5 May 2020 | No Meeting The week of EGU 2020 online |
| 4 | 12 May 2020 | **Cancelled** |
| 5 | 19 May 2020 | What are you working on at the moment? Discussion of current work in the group |
| 6 | 26 May 2020 | Chimene Daleu Characterising Convective Schemes by their Linearized Responses Ambrogio Volonte Dynamics of East Asian Summer Monsoon in MetUM hi-res simulations |
| 7 | 2 Jun 2020 | Carol Halliwell & Kirsty Hanley Modelling turbulence in the UM: Is a 3DTKE scheme the answer in the turbulence grey-zone? |
| 8 | 9 Jun 2020 | Thorwald Stein Weather radars and mesoscale meteorology – Why? Where? What? How? |
| 10 | 23 Jun 2020 | Emanuele Gentile Neighbourhood and object-oriented verification of convection-permitting atmosphere-ocean-wave coupled extreme wind forecasts |
| 12 | 7 Jul 2020 | Will McIntyre A summary of atmospheric instabilities |
| 13 | 14 Jul 2020 | Sol Sanders-Farmer How Well Can Boundary Layer Stability be Estimated by Sunrise and Sunset Times? |
| 14 | 21 Jul 2020 | Humphrey Lean Very high resolution modelling of the effects of wave motion on measurements of the depth of an urban boundary layer |
| 17 | 11 Aug 2020 | Clément Bezier How do Atmospheric Motion Vectors affect ash dispersion forecast ? – a case study : the 2019 Raikoke Eruption |
Spring 2020
| Week | Date | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 21 Jan 2020 | Alec Vessey The Risk of Storms to Arctic Shipping Activities |
| 3 | 28 Jan 2020 | Kieran Pope Interaction Between Radiation and Convective Organisation |
| 4 | 4 Feb 2020 | Dominic Jones Relaxception: aiming for a wind field by relaxing to a temperature field derived from another wind field. (What could go wrong?) |
| 5 | 11 Feb 2020 | Bring a Plot **1L61 this week** Bring a plot, or a question! |
| 6 | 18 Feb 2020 | Kaja Milczewska Relating errors in O3 and NO2 forecasts with 10m wind errors, using a probabilistic, neighborhood verification approach on a deterministic air quality forecast Oscar Martinez-Alvarado A prototype real-time sting jet precursor tool for forecasters |
| 7 | 25 Feb 2020 | Ben Harvey Revisiting the isentropic view of PV modification in warm conveyor belts |
| 8 | 3 Mar 2020 | Nigel Roberts When is a shower a shower? |
| 9 | 10 Mar 2020 | Mark Muetzelfeldt Evaluation of precipitation in high-resolution GCMs over Asia at different spatial scales |
| 10 | 17 Mar 2020 | **Cancelled** |
| 11 | 24 Mar 2020 | Liam Till Tracking thermals in deep convection Kris Boykin Extracting likely scenarios from high resolution forecasts in real-time |
| 12 | 31 Mar 2020 | Miguel Teixeira The structure of turbulence over complex terrain: lessons from the oceanic boundary layer |
Autumn 2019
| Week | Date | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 15 Oct 2019 | Michael Johnston The cloud trail system |
| 4 | 22 Oct 2019 | Helen Dacre A review of extratropical cyclones: Observations and conceptual models over the past 100 years |
| 5 | 29 Oct 2019 | Bring a plot |
| 6 | 5 Nov 2019 | Daniel Shipley Multi-fluid modelling of Rayleigh-Bénard convection |
| 7 | 12 Nov 2019 | Emanuele Gentile The impact of atmosphere, wave, and ocean coupling on extreme surface wind forecasts |
| 8 | 19 Nov 2019 | Will McIntyre The many ways of parameterising convection |
| 9 | 26 Nov 2019 | Steven Woolnough The impact of equatorial waves on precipitation in SE Asia |
| 10 | 3 Dec 2019 | Natalie Harvey To fly or not to fly? Improving volcanic ash forecasts for aviation |
| 11 | 10 Dec 2019 | First year PhD introductions |
Summer 2019
| Week | Date | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 23 Apr 2019 | Jian-Feng Gu Intensification variability of tropical cyclones in directional shear flows |
| 2 | 30 Apr 2019 *1L43* |
Matt Priestley Secondary Cyclones and Cyclone families across the North Atlantic and Europe |
| 3 | 7 May 2019 | None |
| 4 | 14 May 2019 | Will McIntyre Modelling grey-zone dry convection with the multi-fluid model |
| 5 | 21 May 2019 | None |
| 6 | 28 May 2019 | Visiting Scientist Intros from PhDs Dr. Cecilia Bitz is visiting from University of Washington, short introduction presentations from PhD group members |
| 7 | 4 Jun 2019 | Bring a Plot |
| 8 | 11 Jun 2019 | Natalie Theeuwes London’s boundary layer and cloud cover |
| *CANCELLED* | 25 Jun 2019 | Victoria Sinclair (Visiting scientist from the University of Helsinki) |
Spring 2019
| Week | Date | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15 Jan 2019 | Bring-a-Plot! (rm 1L43) |
| 2 | 22 Jan 2019 | Will McIntyre Numerical treatment of transfer terms in multi-fluid convection modelling |
| 3 | 29 Jan 2019 | Oscar Martinez-Alvarado Numerical weather prediction and wind power resource assessment in Mexico |
| 4 | 5 Feb 2019 | Michael Johnston An exploratory analysis of an idealised island convection simulation |
| 5 | 12 Feb 2019 | Mark Muetzelfeldt Effects of sheared environments on cloud fields in idealized models |
| 6 | 19 Feb 2019 | Enhancement week |
| 7 | 26 Feb 2019 | Kirsty Hanley Convection in the 300 m London model |
| 8 | 5 Mar 2019 | Peter Clark Trajectories in convective clouds |
| 9 | 12 Mar 2019 | James Gilmore (rm 1L43) Cloud Electrification Measured In Situ |
| 10 | 19 Mar 2019 | To Be Determined |
Autumn 2018
| Week | Date | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 02 Oct 2018 | Lewis Blunn High-resolution modelling of the boundary layer and implications for urban air-quality forecasting |
| 2 | 09 Oct 2018 | Bethan Harris Local Energy Budgets for an Idealised Tropical Cyclone |
| 3 | 16 Oct 2018 | Will McIntyre Stability analysis of the multi-fluid equations for convection |
| 4 | 23 Oct 2018 | No talk |
| 5 | 30 Oct 2018 | Bring-a-Plot session |
| 6 | 06 Nov 2018 | Kaja Milczewska The influence of meteorology on the forecast of surface ozone concentrations Michael Johnston Designing a reference simulation for a cloud trail |
| 7 | 13 Nov 2018 | No talk |
| 8 | 20 Nov 2018 | Dan Shipley Work towards a multi-fluid approach to modelling convection |
| Xin Xu – Visiting scientist from Nanjing University, China | ||
| 9 | 27 Nov 2018 | Ambrogio Volonté The interaction between dry air intrusion and moist low-level flow and their influence on the progression of the 2016 summer monsoon in NW India Miguel Teixeira Mountain wave breaking due to directional wind shear in hydrostatic and non-hydrostatic flow |
| 10 | 04 Dec 2018 | Oscar Martínez-Alvarado Tracking atmospheric blocking Thorwald Stein Convection initiation and storm evolution in WCSSP South Africa and a comparison with the UK |
| 11 | 11 Dec 2018 | First Year PhD Students Introduction to 1st Year Projects and Christmas Mixer |
Summer 2018
| Week | Date | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 17 Apr 2018
14:00 |
Eduardo Ramos (Visiting Scientist from the Institute of Renewable Energy, National University of Mexico) Natural convection in cylindrical containers |
| 15:00 | Harald Richter (Visiting Scientist from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology) New developments in the Bureau’s thunderstorm prediction system & impact-based forecasting in the coastal zone: east coast lows |
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| 2 | 24 Apr 2018 | Michael Johnston Can the idealised UM simulate cloud trails? |
| 3 | 1 May 2018 | No Talk |
| 4 | 8 May 2018 | Helen Dacre 3 Alternative Ways to View Cyclone Moisture Fluxes |
| 5 | 15 May 2018 | Chris Holloway How cold pools can shake up (and even break up) convective organization (Same as in Tropical Hour) |
| 6 | 22 May 2018 | Sue Gray The downstream impact of mesoscale convective systems |
| 7 | 29 May 2018 | No Talk |
| 8 | 5 Jun 2018 | Emma Knowland (Visiting Scientist from NASA) Stratospheric Intrusion Catalog: A 10-year Compilation of Events Identified by using an Objective Feature Tracking Model with NASA’s MERRA-2 Reanalysis |
Spring 2018
| Week | Date | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 Jan 2018 | No talk |
| 2 | 16 Jan 2018 | Dan Shipley Mathematical techniques for atmospheric convection to improve severe weather prediction |
| 3 | 23 Jan 2018 | Michael Johnston Parallels between lake effect snow and island convection |
| 4 | 30 Jan 2018 | David Flack The influence of stochastic boundary layer perturbations on the forecast for Coverack |
| 5 | 6 Feb 2018 | Manos Flaounas (Visiting Scientist) Medicanes as subtropical cyclones: the December 2005 case from the perspective of surface pressure tendency diagnostics and atmospheric water budget. |
| 6 | 13 Feb 2018 | Enhancement week |
| 7 | 20 Feb 2018 | No Talk |
| 8 | 27 Feb 2018 | Arathy Menon 2016 Indian Monsoon onset and progression in field campaign observations and a 4km model. |
| 9 | 6 Mar 2018 | Will McIntyre On the path to modelling convection with conditional averaging |
| **NOTE** | The above meeting will take place in Meteorology Building, Room 1L43 | |
| 10 | 13 Mar 2018 | Ryan Williams Tropospheric Ozone (O3): Seasonal and Geographical Variability, Stratospheric Influence and Recent Trends |
| **NOTE** | The above meeting will take place in Meteorology Building, Room 1L61 | |
| 11 | 20 Mar 2018 | Mark Muetzelfeldt Clustering wind profiles to identify shear conditions in climate models |
Autumn 2017
| Week | Date | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 26 Sep 2017 | Luc Gerard (Visiting from Belgium Met Service) Modelling deep convection in kilometre-scale grid meshes |
| 2 | 3 Oct 2017 | Michael Johnston Environments that support cloud trails at Bermuda |
| 3 | 10 Oct 2017 | Will McIntyre The numerical difficulties of advecting moisture for cloud modelling |
| 4 | 17 Oct 2017 | James Shaw Numerical advection of chemical species |
| 5 | 24 Oct 2017 | Humphrey Lean Representation of the convective boundary layer over London with O(100m) versions of the Unified Model |
| 6 | 31 Oct 2017 | Enhancement Week No Meeting Planned |
| 7 | 7 Nov 2017 | David Flack Convective-scale perturbation growth from a stochastic boundary layer parametrization |
| 8 | 14 Nov 2017 | Kaja Milczewska Improving the accuracy of air quality forecasts |
| 9 | 21 Nov 2017 | Helene Bresson Polar lows and the North Atlantic climate system James Gilmore Electric field measurements during convective clouds at Chilbolton |
| 10 | 28 Nov 2017 | Ambrogio Volonte Idealised simulations of sting jets in extratropical cyclones |
| **NOTE** | The above meeting will take place in Meteorology Building, Room 1L61 | |
| 11 | 5 Dec 2017 | Matt Priestley How important is clustering in 1000 year windstorm events? |
| 12 | 12 Dec 2017 | First-year PhD Students Introduction to 1st Year Projects |
Summer 2017
| Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 25-April-2017 | Ben Harvey | ‘How is negative PV created in warm conveyor belts?’ |
| 2 | 2-May-2017 | Thorwald Stein | ‘Further tales of DYMECS’ |
| 3 | 9-May-2017 | Session with PhD visiting scientist Tapio Schneider (CalTech) | Ben Courtier :”Cloud Electrification in Convective Storms” Holly Turner: “Assessing the impacts of vertical wind shear on gravity wave drag” Ambrogio Volonté: “Dynamics of Sting Jets: key challenges and contributions from the ‘Reading group'”. |
| 4 | 16-May-2017 | Julia Curio | ‘Climatology of Tibetan Plateau vortices in reanalysis data and a high resolution model simulation’ |
| 5 | 23-May-2017 | Manos Flaounas (National Observatory of Athens) | ‘Mediterranean cyclones: climatological aspects and dynamics’ |
| 6 | 30-May-2017 | Bring-a-plot/discussion session | / |
| 7 | 6-June-2017 | Alex Baker | ‘Resolution sensitivity of the Mediterranean winter precipitation response to RCP8.5 in HadGEM3’ |
| 8 | 13-June-2017 | Michael Johnston & Bethan Harris | / |
Spring 2017
| Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10-January-2017 | No session | / |
| 2 | 17-January-2017 | Leo Saffin | ‘Maintaining tropopause sharpness in NWP models’ |
| 3 | 24-January-2017 | Nigel Roberts | ‘Developments with the Fractions Skill Score’ |
| 4 | 31-January-2017 | Bring-a-plot/discussion session | / |
| 5 | 7-February-2017 (1L43) | Miguel Teixeira | ‘Theory and experiments of 3D trapped lee waves’ |
| 6 | 14-February-2017 | Chris Holloway | ‘Observing convective aggregation’ |
| 7 | 21-February-2017 | Ambrogio Volonte | ‘Importance of model resolution in resolving sting jets’ |
| 8 | 28-February-2017 | Juwon Kim | ‘The impact of aerosols on cloud microphysics and dynamics in deep convective clouds over the UK’ |
| 9 | 7-March-2017 | Jacob Maddison & Matt Feist | ‘Factors controlling forecasts of atmospheric blocking’ ‘Measuring convective storm turbulence with radar for model evaluation’ |
| 10 | 14-March-2017 | Bring-a-plot/discussion session | / |
| 11 | 21-March-2017 | Bob Plant | / |
Autumn 2016
| Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 27-September-2016 | Introduction/discussion session | / |
| 2 | 4-October-2016 | Kirsty Hanley & Carol Halliwell | ‘Convection in the UKV’ |
| 3 | 11-October-2016 | James Gilmore & Holly Turner | ‘The Effects of Charged Precipitation on the Local Electric Circuit’ ‘Developing a Global Field of Richardson Number’ |
| 4 | 18-October-2016 | Session with Veronique Ducrocq (CRNM) Talks from Humphrey Lean, Jacob Maddison & David Flack |
‘Mesoscale modelling Research in the Met Office@Reading’ ‘Forecasting blocking in the Northern Hemisphere Winter’ ‘Convetive-scale perturbation growth in different convective regimes’ |
| 5 | 25-October-2016 | Sue Gray | ‘North Atlantic storm driving of extreme wave heights’ |
| 6 | 1-November-2016 | Peter Clark | ‘Stochastic Convective boundary-layer parametrizations in the MetUM’ |
| 7 | 8-November-2016 | Oscar Martinez-Alvarado | ‘(Partial) Review of diabatic processes and Rossby waves’ |
| 8 | 15-November-2016 | Mark Muetzelfeldt | ‘Heat and Moisture Budgets in Radiative-Convective Equilibrium Experiments’ |
| 9 | 22-November-2016 | Helen Dacre | ‘Using trajectories to determine predictability limits’ |
| 10 | 29-November-2016 | Helene Bresson & Matthew Priestley | ‘Applying an objective Polar low identification scheme to two high-resolution reanalyses’ ‘Cyclone clustering in ERA-Interim’ |
| 11 | 6-December-2016 | Discussion/Bring-a-plot session | / |
| 12 | 13-December-2016 | First year PhD students: Kaja Milczewska, Bethan Harris, Ryan Williams, Ben Courtier, William Mcintyre & Michael Johnston | / |
Summer 2016
| Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 19-April-2016 (2pm – GU10) | / | / |
| 2 | 26-April-2016 (2pm – GU10) | Jonathan Chuen Chung Chui | Convective parameterization in the grey zone |
| 3 | 3-May-2016 (2pm – GU01) | Oscar Martinez-Alvarado | How well are probability distribution functions predicted by ensemble prediction systems? |
| 4 | 10-May-2016 (2pm – GU01) | Ambrogio Volonte | Mechanisms generating mesoscale instability along a Sting Jet (Windstorm Tini) |
| 5 | 17-May-2016 | Chris Webber | ‘Climate impacts on hazardous UK PM10 exposure’ |
| 6 | 24-May-2016 | Juwon Kim | ‘The role of turbulent mixing on clouds’ |
| 7 | 31-May-2016 | Carly Wright | ‘The generation of rainbands downwind of mountains’ |
| 8 | 7-June-2016 (3pm – 1L61) | PhD visiting scientist (Richard Rotunno): Carly Wright, Ambrogio Volonte & Leo Saffin | ‘Generation of downwind rainbands’ ‘Sting jets in extra-tropcila cyclones: generated by mesoscale instabilities?’ ‘Systematic effects in NWP’ |
Spring 2016
| Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12-Jan-2016 | / | / |
| 2 | 19-Jan-2016 | Seonaid Dey | Characterising spatial precipitation characteristics for Summer 2013 |
| 3 | 26-Jan-2016 | Reinhard Schiemann | The resolution sensitivity of northern hemisphere blocking in four 25-km atmospheric global circulation models |
| 4 | 2-Feb-2016 | / | / |
| 5 | 9-Feb-2016 | James Shaw | Curl-free pressure gradients for accurate modelling of cold air pools |
| 6 | 16-Feb-2016 (2pm – 1L43) | Juwon Kim | / |
| 7 | 23-Feb-2016 | Fadzil Mohd Nor | / |
| 8 | 1-Mar-2016 | Shun-ichi Watanabe (University of Tokio) | A comprehensive study on the characteristics of the polar mesocyclone over the Sea of Japan |
| 9 | 8-Mar-2016 | Miguel Teixeira | / |
| 10 | 15-Mar-2016 | Carly Wright | / |
Autumn 2015
| Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 29-Sep-2015 (3pm – 1L61) | Neil Hart | Estimating the climatological risk of sting-jet windstorms |
| 2 | 06-Oct-2015 | / | / |
| 3 | 13-Oct-2015 (3pm – 1L61) | Chris Holloway | Convective aggregation processes |
| 4 | 20-Oct-2015 (2pm – 1L43) | David Flack | Model Physics Perturbation Growth in Different Regimes |
| 5 | 27-Oct-2015 (3pm – 1L43) | Bring-a-plot session | / |
| 6 | 03-Nov-2015 (2pm – 1L43) | Sue Gray and Peter Clark | Observation and modeling of weather-related effects induced by March 2015 eclipse |
| 7 | 10-Nov-2015 | Open Discussion | |
| 8 | 17-Nov-2015 | Mini-conference with Beth Ebert: short presentation by group members and final discussion | Helen Dacre: Assessing the accuracy of volcanic ash simulations? Kirsty Hanley: Representation of convection in high resolution versions of the UM Oscar Martinez-Alvarado: Large-scale forecast errors: can we learn anything from them? |
| 9 | 24-Nov-2015 | Leo Saffin | PV Tracers |
| 10 | 01-Dec-2015 | Benoit Vanniere (Imperial College, London) | The role of the cold sector of extratropical cyclones in setting atmospheric mean state features of the Gulf Stream basin |
| 11 | 08-Dec-2015 | Presentations from new PhD students |
Summer 2015
| Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 21-April-2015 | Bring-a-plot session | \ |
| 2 | 28-April-2015 (GU10) | Carol Halliwell & Kirsty Hanley | Representing convection in high resolution versions of the UM |
| 3 | 05-May-2015 (GU10) | Nigel Roberts | Diagnosing the pressure pattern |
| 4 | 12-May-2015 | Tim Hewson (ECMWF) | Windstorms, Freezing Rain, and Sub-grid Rainstorms – an overview of some recent work at ECMWF related to Severe Weather |
| 5 | 19-May-2015 (GU10) | Bob Plant | An alternative perspective on some Cascade data |
| 6 | 26-May-2015 | Ben Harvey | Using observations and theory to evaluate model convergence at fronts |
| 7 | 02-Jun-2015 | Oscar Martinez-Alvarado | Contrasting PV features in two summer extratropical cyclones |
| 8 | 09-Jun-2015 | Neil Hart | Instabilities associated with sting jet descents in three explosively-developing windstorms |
Autumn 2014
| Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 28-September | ||
| 2 | 07-October (Gu10) | David Hooper | Mesoscale measurements of wind and atmospheric structure using the NERC MST Radar |
| 3 | 14-October | Oscar Martinez-Alvarado | |
| 4 | 21-October (Gu10) | Leo Saffin | |
| 5 | 28-October (Gu10) | Peter Clark and Neil Hart | Python |
| 6 | 04-November | ||
| 7 | 11-November | ||
| 8 | 18-November | Ambrogio Volonte | Investigation of Sting Jet presence in storm Tini |
| 9 | 25-November | David Flack | Characterising the Convective Adjustment Timescale over the UK |
| 10 | 02-December | Carly Wright | The Generation of Downwind Rainbands by Mountains |
| 11 | 09-December | 1st Year PhD Students | Introduction |
Summer 2014
| Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 29-April-2014 | ||
| 2 | 06-May-2014 (1L43) | ||
| 3 | 13-May-2013 (1L43) | ||
| 4 | 20-May-2014 (Gu01) | Victoria Sinclair | A winter-time climatology of low-level jets in the northern polar regions |
| 5 | 27-May-2014 | Kirsty Hanley | UM simulations of the Moore tornado |
| 6 | 03-Jun-2014 | Seonaid Dey | Spatial ensemble characterisation for summer convective cases |
| 7 | 10-Jun-2014 | Matt Hawcroft | Latent heating in extratropical cyclones in HiGEM, ERA-Interim and remote sensing data |
| 8 | 17-Jun-2014 (1L43) | Sam Clark | Multi-scale MetUM simulations of a mesoscale convective system: A case study |
| 9 | 24-Jun-2014 | David Flack | The Appropriate Use of a Convective Adjustment Timescale to Distinguish Between Regimes of Predictability |
| 10 | 1-Jul-2014 (Gu10) | Neil Hart | On automating Lagragian-based analysis of extratropical cyclones |
Spring 2014
| Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14-Jan-2014 | -Rob Warren | -Idealised numerical simulations of the sea breeze system over a peninsula |
| 2 | 21-Jan-2014 | TBC | TBC |
| 3 | 28-Jan-2014 | Nigel Roberts | An assessment of spatially post-processed probability forecasts from the MOGREPS-UK ensemble and the UKV model |
| 4 | 04-Feb-2014 | Jill Chamberlain | High-resolution modelling of tropical cyclones |
| 5 | 11-Feb-2014 | TBC | TBC |
| 6 | 18-Feb-2014 | Neil Hart | Automating air stream identification in extratropical cyclones |
| 7 | 25-Feb-2014 | Bob Plant | Simple models for prognostic convection |
| 8 | 04-Mar-2014 | Ruari Rhodes | Can reanalysis represent extreme precipitation over England and Wales |
| 9 | 11-Mar-2014 | Chris Hollaway | Convective aggregation in observations and models |
| 10 | 18-Mar-2014 |
Autumn 2013
| Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8-Oct-2013 | Chris Weijenborg | Organisation of Potential Vorticity during severe convection |
| 2 | 15-Oct-2013 | Oscar Martinez-Alvarado | Implications of model error for numerical weather and climate prediction |
| 3 | 22-Oct-2013 | Neil Hart | TBC |
| 4 | 29-Oct-2013 | Seonaid Dey | TBC |
| 5 | 5-Nov-2013 | Kirsty Hanley | High resolution COPE simulations |
| 6 | 12-Nov-2013 | Helen Dacre | TBC |
| 7 | 19-Nov-2013 | All | Bring a plot |
| 8 | 26-Nov-2013 | Miguel Teixeira | Theory and lab measurements of gravity wave drag caused by an inversion |
| 9 | 3-Dec-2013 | Peter Clark | Some toy problems for stochastic parametrisation |
| 10 | 10-Dec-2013 | First year PhD students | Introductions |
Summer 2013
| Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 23-Apr-2013 | – | – |
| 2 | 30-Apr-2013 | Sue Gray | Model forecast error in upper-level ridge structure |
| 3 | 7-May-2013 | Robert Warren | A numerical investigation of the effects of dry air aloft on deep convection (2010) by Richard P. James and Paul M. Markowski |
| 4 | 14-May-2013 | Jeff Chagnon | TBC |
| 5 | 21-May-2013 | Nigel Roberts | TBC |
| 6 | 28-May-2013 | Ross Bannister | TBC |
| 7 | 4-Jun-2013 | Kirsty McBeath (Met Office) | TBC |
| 8 | 11-Jun-2013 | Bob Plant | TBC |
| 9 | 18-Jun-2013 | Oscar Martinez-Alvarado | Contrasting the concepts ‘atmospheric river’ and ‘warm conveyor belt’: Are they synonyms? |
| 10 | 25-Jun-2013 | Sam Clarke | TBC |
Spring 2013
| Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15-Jan-2013 | All | Bring a plot session |
| 2 | 22-Jan-2013 | Andrew Barrett | Synoptic versus orographic control on stationary convective banding. |
| 3 | 29-Jan-2013 | – | – |
| 4 | 05-Feb-2013 | Robert Warren | Hazardous Weather lecture practise: Supercells and tornadoes |
| 5 | 12-Feb-2013 | Kirsty Hanley | High resolution simulations of convective storms |
| 6 | 19-Feb-2013 | Neil Hart | 4-D visualisation made easy with IDV: Virtual flight through a sting jet |
| 7 | 26-Feb-2013 | Pete Clark | Turbulence parametrization in convective clouds: what is the resolution of a model? |
| 8 | 05-Mar-2013 | Gabriele Messori (Imperial College) | The sporadic nature of atmospheric heat transport |
| 9 | 12-Mar-2013 | Helen Dacre | What happens when cyclones cross the jet stream? |
| 10 | 19-Mar-2013 | Neil Hart & Mike Wong | TBC |
Autumn 2012
| Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 09-Oct-2012 | Miguel Teixeira | Mountain waves, Oceanic Turbulence 1L61 |
| 2 | 16-Oct-2012 | Matt Hawcroft | Precipitation in the ECMWF dataset and teaching in Afghanistan 1L61 |
| 3 | 23-Oct-2012 | All | Introductions GU10 |
| 4 | 30-Oct-2012 | Jeff Chagnon | Diabatic potential vorticity in extratropical cyclones 1L61 |
| 5 | 08-Nov-2012 (Thursday 11am) | Oscar Martínez-Alvarado | Diabatic Processes and Extratropical Cyclones GU10 |
| 6 | 13-Nov-2012 | Mike Glinton | Conditional Symmetric Instability: Are global scale models missing something ? 1L61 |
| 7 | 20-Nov-2012 | Michael Reeder (Monash University, Australia) | The Meteorology of Catastrophic Wildfires over Southeastern Australia. 1L61 |
| 8 | 27-Nov-2012 | Agnieszka Mega and Ruari Rhodes | Environmental precursors of sting jet storms and Changes in long term variability in the rains of Sudan 1L61 |
| 9 | 04-Dec-2012 | 1L61 | |
| 10 | 11-Dec-2012 | 1L61 |
Summer 2012
| Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24-Apr-2012 3 pm |
Emilie Carter | Progress on representing convection at various high horizontal resolutions in the U |
| 2 | 01-May-2012 | ||
| 3 | 08-May-2012 | David McNamara | Boundary Layer Ventilation of Mid Latitude Cyclones |
| 4 | 15-May-2012 | Mike Glinton | Conditional symmetric instability, precipitation and strong surface winds |
| 5 | 22-May-2012 | Masami Narita | Characteristics of different cloud microphysics schemes in the Met Office 1.5-km Unified Model for a typhoon and winter snow cases over Japan |
| 6 | 29-May-2012 | Matt Hawcroft | Latent heat in Extratropical Cyclones in a high resolution climate model, reanalysis and remote sensing |
| 7 | 05-Jun-2012 | Bank holiday | |
| 8 | 12-Jun-2012 | Cimene Daleu | Modelling the interactions between tropical convection and large scale dynamics |
| 9 | 19-Jun-2012 | Oscar Martínez-Alvarado | TBC |
| 10 | 26-Jun-2012 | Laura Baker | TBC |
Spring 2011
| Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18-Jan-2011 | Bring-A-Plot session | |
| 2 | 25-Jan-2011 | Oscar Martínez-Alvarado | Discussion: Frequency and distribution of sting jets in intense winter North-Atlantic cyclones |
| 3 | 01-Feb-2011 | Sue Gray | Challenges in mesoscale meteorology |
| 4 | Monday 07-Feb-2011 | Michael Glinton | Discussion on Linstrom and Nordeng (1992) |
| 5 | 15-Feb-2011 | Chimene Daleu | Modelling the Interactions between Tropical Convection and Large-scale Dynamics |
| 6 | 22-Feb-2011 | Dan Kirshbaum | Further results on trade-wind convection over tropical islands |
| 7 | 01-Mar-2011 | Kirsty Hanley | Ensemble simulations of a squall line during COPS: verification and mechanisms |
| 8 | 08-Mar-2011 | Dirk Cannon | A scaling of orographic precipitation, for both stratiform and convective clouds |
| 9 | 15-Mar-2011 | Jeffrey Chagnon | What controls the emergence of time and space scales in fields of convection? |
| 10 | 22-Mar-2011 | Helen Dacre |
Autumn 2010
| Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11-Oct-2010 | No meeting | |
| 2 | 18-Oct-2010 | Bring-A-Plot session | |
| 3 | 25-Oct-2010 | No meeting | |
| 4 | 01-Nov-2010 | Oscar Martínez-Alvarado | A first look into a contingency table for sting jets |
| 5 | 08-Nov-2010 | No meeting | |
| 6 | 15-Nov-2010 | Jeffrey Chagnon | A pre-frontal surge wave: Case study analysis and idealised simulation |
| 7 | 22-Nov-2010 | Emilie Carter | COLPEX: Cold Air Pooling Experiment. |
| 8 | 29-Nov-2010 | Emma Irvine | Aviation, weather and contrails |
| 9 | 06-Dec-2010 | Carol Halliwell | Assessing the available options for subgrid-scale mixing in the UM using the Idealised UM |
| 10 | 13-Dec-2010 | TBC | TBC |
Autumn 2009
| Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 05-Oct-2009 | Everybody | Bring-A-Plot session |
| 2 | 12-Oct-2009 | Nigel Roberts | Downscaling a 1.5km ensemble – First case study |
| 3 | 19-Oct-2009 | Helen Dacre | Can SAL be used to validate air quality forecasts? |
| 4 | 26-Oct-2009 | Giovanni Leoncini | Ensemble simulations for the Boscastle flood: perturbations, physics and convergence lines |
| 5 | 02-Nov-2009 | Emma Irvine | Why does targeted observing (sometimes) fail? Experiments using synthetic targeted observations containing a baroclinic structure. |
| 6 | 09-Nov-2009 | Kirsty Hanley | High resolution ensemble simulations of an isolated convective storm during COPS. |
| 7 | 16-Nov-2009 | Aymeric Spiga (Open University) | Mesoscale and microscale meteorology on Mars. |
| 8 | 23-Nov-2009 | Humphrey Lean & Daniel Kirshbaum | Orographic precipitation and the seeder-feeder mechanism. |
| 9 | 30-Nov-2009 | Jeffrey Chagnon | Thorpex – North Atlantic Waveguide and Downstream impacts Experiment (T-NAWDEx): Some preliminary ideas and a pilot study |
| 10 | 07-Dec-2009 | Carol Halliwell | Part I: Subgrid-scale mixing in the UM – where we are now… Part II: The Idealised UM and why you would want to use it! |
Autumn 2008
| Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 07-Oct-2008 | (bring a plot session) | TBA |
| 2 | 14-Oct-2008 | Sue Gray | TBA |
| 3 | 21-Oct-2008 | Jeffrey Chagnon | TBA |
| 4 | 28-Oct-2008 | Chris Holloway | TBA |
| 5 | 04-Nov-2008 | Victoria Sinclair | TBA |
| 6 | 11-Nov-2008 | Michael Ball | TBA |
| 7 | 18-Nov-2008 | Richard Keane | TBA |
| 8 | 25-Nov-2008 | Emma Irvine | TBA |
| 9 | 02-Dec-2008 | Laura Baker | TBA |
| 10 | 09-Dec-2008 | Dirk Cannon and Dan Peake | TBA |