Dr. Ambrogio Volonté
Postdoctoral Research Assistant
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
2023
Croad, Hannah L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5124-4860, Methven, John
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7636-6872, Harvey, Ben
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6510-8181, Keeley, Sarah P. E.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8046-765X and Volonté, Ambrogio
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, Ambrogio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0278-952X, Gray, Suzanne L.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8658-362X, Clark, Peter A.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1001-9226, Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5285-0379 and Ackerley, Duncan
(2023)
Strong surface winds in Storm Eunice. Part 2: airstream analysis.
Weather.
ISSN 1477-8696
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/wea.4401
Volonté, Ambrogio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0278-952X, Gray, Suzanne L.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8658-362X, Clark, Peter A.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1001-9226, Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5285-0379 and Ackerley, Duncan
(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, Arathy, Turner, Andrew G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876, Volonte, Ambrogio
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0278-952X, Taylor, Christopher M., Webster, Stuart and Martin, Gill
(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, Ambrogio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0278-952X, Turner, Andrew G.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876, Schiemann, Reinhard
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3095-9856, Vidale, Pier Luigi and Klingaman, Nicholas 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, Ambrogio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0278-952X, Muetzelfeldt, Mark
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6851-7351, Schiemann, Reinhard, Turner, Andy
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876 and Klingaman, Nick
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., Turner, A. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876 and Menon, A.
(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, Mrudula, Fletcher, J. K., Willetts, P. D., Menon, A., 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. 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, Ambrogio, Clark, Peter A. and Gray, Suzanne L. (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, Ambrogio, Clark, Peter A. and Gray, Suzanne L. (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, Ambrogio (2018) Dynamics of sting jets and their relation to larger-scale drivers. PhD thesis, University of Reading.
2016
Davolio, S., Volonté, A., 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: 1st September 2023