Dr. Jon Shonk
MetOffice@Reading -- Senior Scientist
Web Pages
Group pages: Tropical Group; Clouds Group; Radiation Group.
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Research Interests
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My research interests span tropical meteorology, modelling the climate, atmospheric radiative transfer and interactions with clouds, and remote sensing of clouds.
- Understanding the differences and nuances of projections of future climate across climate models, focussing on the global monsoons.
- Identifying causes of model drifts in climate simulations.
- Creating better representations of clouds in climate models.
- Improving the accuracy of radiative transfer calculations.
- Improving the quality of ground-based retrievals of mixed-phase cloud optical properties.
Research Projects
- Real: Robust Spatial Projections of Real-World Climate Change.
- SPECS: Seasonal-to-Decadal Climate Prediction for the Improvement of European Climate Services.
- Preface: Enhancing Prediction of Tropical Atlantic Climate and Its Impact.
Publications
- Shonk JKP, Chiu JC, Marshak A, Giles DM, Huang CH, Mace GG, Benson S, Slutsker I, Holben BN; 2019. The Impact of Neglecting Ice Phase on Cloud Optical Depth Retrievals from AERONET Cloud Mode Observations. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 12: 5,0875,099. [PDF]
- Shonk JKP, Demissie TD, Toniazzo T; 2019. A Double ITCZ Phenomenology of Wind Errors in the Equatorial Atlantic in Seasonal Forecasts with ECMWF Models. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 19: 11,38311,399. [PDF]
- Voldoire A, Exarchou E, Sanchez-Gomez E, Demissie T, Deppenmeier AL, Frauen C, Goubanova K, Hazeleger W, Keenlyside N, Koseki S, Prodhomme C, Shonk JKP, Toniazzo T, Traore AK; 2019. Role of Wind Stress in Driving SST Biases in the Tropical Atlantic. Climate Dynamics 53: 3,4813,504. [PDF]
- Shonk JKP, Guilyardi E, Toniazzo T, Woolnough SJ and Stockdale TN; 2018. Identifying Causes of Western Pacific ITCZ Drift in ECMWF System 4 Hindcasts. Climate Dynamics 50: 939954. [PDF]
- Hogan RJ, Shonk JKP; 2013. Incorporating the Effects of 3D Radiative Transfer in the Presence of Clouds into Two-Stream Multi-Layer Radiation Schemes. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 70: 708724. [PDF]
- Shonk JKP; 2013. "Introducing Meteorology: a Guide to Weather". Dunedin Academic Press.
- Shonk JKP, Hogan RJ, Manners J; 2012. Impact of Improved Representation of Horizontal and Vertical Cloud Structure in a Climate Model. Climate Dynamics 38: 2,3652,376. [PDF]
- Shonk JKP, Hogan RJ; 2010. Effect of Improving Representation of Horizontal and Vertical Cloud Structure on the Earth's Global Radiation Budget. Part Two: the Global Effects. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 136: 1,2051,215. [PDF]
- Shonk JKP, Hogan RJ, Mace GG, Edwards JM; 2010. Effect of Improving Representation of Horizontal and Vertical Cloud Structure on the Earth's Global Radiation Budget. Part One: the Parameterisation. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 136: 1,1911,204. [PDF]
- Shonk JKP, Hogan RJ; 2008. Tripleclouds: an Efficient Method for Representing Horizontal Cloud Inhomogeneity in 1D Radiation Schemes by Using Three Regions at Each Height". Journal of Climate 21: 2,3522,370. [PDF]
Last update: 1st September 2023