Principal Research Fellow (NCAS)

Web Pages:

Group: http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~tropical
My Research: http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~linda

Research Interests:

• Drivers of climate variability and change in Africa
• Sub-seasonal to seasonal predictability
• Tropical convection, e.g., the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), monsoon systems
• Co-production of weather and climate services for society

Current Research Projects:

• GCRF African Science for Weather Information and Forecasting Techniques (SWIFT) (2017-present): Develop sustainable African weather forecasting capability, to enhance the livelihood of African populations and improve the economies of their countries. Co-lead of Sub-seasonal to seasonal (S2S) workpackage.

Past Research Projects:

• IMPALA: Improving Model Processes for African cLimAte (2015-2018): Understanding the major modes of global climate variabilty and the teleconnection pathways by which they drive African rainfall variability.
• Future Weather (2012-2016) : Examining how air-sea interactions affect sub-seasonal variability and the projections of changes in regional weather and climate extremes.
• Climate Science Services Partnership (CSSP)- China project (2014-2015) : Understanding drivers of sub-seasonal variability in the East Asian Summer Monsoon.
• Bay of Bengal Boundary Layer Experiment (BoBBLE) (2015) : Understanding the process which control sub-seasonal monsoon variability in the Asian Summer monsoon.

Other interests

• I was recently commissioned by DfID (Department for International Development) to produce a series of reports on the impact of the 2015/16 El Niño and potential 2016/17 La Niña events on low- and middle-income countries across regions of Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
• I was part of the team who developed the ocean mixed-layer coupled configuration of the Met Office Unified Model MetUM-GOML
• I spent time in 2011-2012 as a visiting scientist in the Meteorolgy and Climate Science department at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana.

Centaur Publications

Last update: 18th June 2025