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Department of Meteorology – University of Reading

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Dr. Ambrogio Volonté

Senior Research Fellow (NCAS)

Responsibilities:

Research Scientist in the Dynamics of Arctic Cyclones

Current 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

Jump to: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2018 | 2016
Number of items: 18.

2024

Deoras, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-5407-6520, Turner, A. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876, Volonté, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0278-952X and Menon, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9347-0578 (2024) The role of midlatitude dry air during the withdrawal of the Indian summer monsoon. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. ISSN 1477-870X doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4859

Gray, S. L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8658-362X and Volonté, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0278-952X (2024) Extreme low‐level wind jets in Storm Ciarán. Weather. ISSN 1477-8696 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/wea.7620

Volonte, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0278-952X and Riboldi, J. (2024) The origins of storm Ciarán: from diabatic Rossby wave to a warm-seclusion cyclone with a sting jet. Weather. ISSN 1477-8696 (In Press)

Sanchez, C., Gray, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8658-362X, Volonte, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0278-952X, Pantillon, F., Berthou, S. and Davolio, S. (2024) The impact of preceding convection on the development of Medicane Ianos and the sensitivity to sea surface temperature. Weather and Climate Dynamics. ISSN 2698-4016 (In Press)

Charlton-Perez, A. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8179-6220, Dacre, H. F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4328-9126, Driscoll, S., Gray, S. L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8658-362X, Harvey, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6510-8181, Harvey, N. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0973-5794, Hunt, K. M. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755, Lee, R. W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1946-5559, Swaminathan, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5853-2673, Vandaele, R. and Volonté, 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, 7. 93. ISSN 2397-3722 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-024-00638-w

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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0894-229X (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1800-8460 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

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