Dr. Robert Lee
PDRA in Stratospheric Dynamics and Predictability
Responsibilities:
Organiser of the Departmental Seminar.
Research Interests:
Teleconnections;
Synoptic meteorology;
Weather regimes;
Climate dynamics;
Sub-seasonal prediction;
Jet streams;
Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO);
Model biases;
Climate change.
Current Research Projects:
MJO metrics for climate models;
Tropical-extratropical teleconnections on sub-seasonal timescales.
Past Research Projects:
Extratropical storm tracks in the CMIP5 models: biases and future changes;
High resolution climate model air-sea interactions over an SST bias.
Other interests and links:
ResearchGate Profile.
ORCID.
Twitter.
Publons.
IPCC AR5 Chapter 12 Contributing Author.
Dynamical Processes Research Group.
Recent Publications:
Centaur Publications
2024
Lee, R.W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1946-5559 and Charlton-Perez, A.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8179-6220 (2024) Diversity of stratospheric error growth across subseasonal prediction systems. Geophysical Research Letters, 51 (10). e2023GL107574. ISSN 1944-8007 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL107574
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
2022
Leung, L. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3221-9467, Boos, W. R., Catto, J. L., A. DeMott, C., Martin, G. M., Neelin, J. D., O'Brien, T. A., Xie, S., Feng, Z., Klingaman, N. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2927-9303, Kuo, Y.-H., Lee, R. W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1946-5559, Martinez-Villalobos, C., Vishnu, S., Priestley, M. D. K., Tao, C. and Zhou, Y. (2022) Exploratory precipitation metrics: spatiotemporal characteristics, process-oriented, and phenomena-based. Journal of Climate, 35 (12). pp. 3659-3686. ISSN 0894-8755 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0590.1
White, C. J., Domeisen, D. I.V., Acharya, N., Adefisan, E. A., Anderson, M. L., Aura, S., Balogun, A. A., Bertram, D., Bluhm, S., Brayshaw, D. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3927-4362, Browell, J., Büeler, D., Charlton-Perez, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8179-6220, Chourio, X., Christel, I., Coelho, C. A. S., DeFlorio, M. J., Monache, L. D., García-Solórzano, A. M., Giuseppe, F. D., Goddard, L., Gibson, P. B., González, C. R., Graham, R. J., Graham, R. M., Grams, C. M., Halford, A., Huang, W. T. K., Jensen, K., Kilavi, M., Lawal, K. A., Lee, R. W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1946-5559, MacLeod, D., Manrique-Suñén, A., Martins, E. S. P. R., Maxwell, C. J., Merryfield, W. J., Muñoz, Á. G., Olaniyan, E., Otieno, G., Oyedepo, J. A., Palma, L., Pechlivanidis, I. G., Pons, D., Ralph, F. M., Reis, D. S., Remenyi, T. A., Risbey, J. S., Robertson, D. J. C., Robertson, A. W., Smith, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5053-4639, Soret, A., Sun, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2486-6146, Todd, M. C., Tozer, C. R., Vasconcelos, F. C., Vigo, I., Waliser, D. E., Wetterhall, F. and Wilson, R. G. (2022) Advances in the application and utility of subseasonal-to-seasonal predictions. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 103 (6). pp. 1448-1472. ISSN 1520-0477 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0224.1
2020
Huang, W. T. K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4292-2105, Charlton-Perez, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8179-6220, Lee, R. W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1946-5559, Neal, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2678-6016, Sarran, C. and Sun, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2486-6146 (2020) Weather regimes and patterns associated with temperature-related excess mortality in the UK: a pathway to sub-seasonal risk forecasting. Environmental Research Letters, 15 (12). 124052. ISSN 1748-9326 doi: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abcbba
Priestley, M. D. K., Ackerley, D., Catto, J. L., Hodges, K. I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0894-229X, McDonald, R. E. and Lee, R. W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1946-5559 (2020) An overview of the extratropical storm tracks in CMIP6 historical simulations. Journal of Climate, 33 (15). pp. 6315-6343. ISSN 1520-0442 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0928.1
Lee, J. C. K., Lee, R. W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1946-5559, Woolnough, S. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0500-8514 and Boxall, L. J. (2020) The links between the Madden-Julian oscillation and European weather regimes. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 141 (1-2). pp. 567-586. ISSN 1434-4483 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-020-03223-2
Mindlin, J., Shepherd, T. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6631-9968, Vera, C., Osman, M., Zappa, G., Lee, R. W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1946-5559 and Hodges, K. I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0894-229X (2020) Storyline description of Southern Hemisphere midlatitude circulation and precipitation response to greenhouse gas forcing. Climate Dynamics, 54 (9-10). pp. 4399-4421. ISSN 0930-7575 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-020-05234-1
2019
Lee, R. W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1946-5559, Woolnough, S. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0500-8514, Charlton-Perez, A. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8179-6220 and Vitart, F. (2019) ENSO modulation of MJO teleconnections to the north Atlantic & Europe. Geophysical Research Letters, 46 (22). pp. 13535-13545. ISSN 0094-8276 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL084683
Charlton-Perez, A. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8179-6220, Aldridge, R. W., Grams, C. M. and Lee, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1946-5559 (2019) Winter pressures on the UK health system dominated by the Greenland blocking weather regime. Weather and Climate Extremes, 25. 100218. ISSN 2212-0947 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wace.2019.100218
van der Wiel, K., Bloomfield, H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5616-1503, Lee, R. W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1946-5559, Stoop, L., Blackport, R., Screen, J. and Selten, F. M. (2019) The influence of weather regimes on European renewable energy production and demand. Environmental Research Letters, 14 (9). 094010. ISSN 1748-9326 doi: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab38d3
2018
Lee, R. W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1946-5559, Woollings, T. J., Hoskins, B. J., Williams, K. D., O'Reilly, C. H. and Masato, G. (2018) Impact of Gulf Stream SST biases on the global atmospheric circulation. Climate Dynamics, 51 (9-10). pp. 3369-3387. ISSN 1432-0894 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-018-4083-9
Charlton-Perez, A. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8179-6220, Ferranti, L. and Lee, R. W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1946-5559 (2018) The influence of the stratospheric state on North Atlantic weather regimes. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 144 (713). pp. 1140-1151. ISSN 1477-870X doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3280
Woollings, T., Barnes, E., Hoskins, B., Kwon, Y.-O., Lee, R. W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1946-5559, Li, C., Madonna, E., McGraw, M., Parker, T., Rodrigues, R., Spensberger, C. and Williams, K. (2018) Daily to decadal modulation of jet variability. Journal of Climate, 31 (4). pp. 1297-1314. ISSN 1520-0442 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0286.1
Williams, K. D., Copsey, D., Blockley, E. W., Bodas-Salcedo, A., Calvert, D., Comer, R., Davis., P., Graham, T., Hewitt, H. T., Hill, R., Hyder, P., Ineson, S., Johns, T. C., Keen, A. B., Lee, R. W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1946-5559, Megann, A., Milton, S. F., Rae, J. G. L., Roberts, M. J., Scaife, A. A., Schiemann, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3095-9856, Storkey, D., Thorpe, L., Watterson, I. G., Walters, D. N., West, A., Wood, R. A., Woollings, T. and Xavier, P. K. (2018) The Met Office Global Coupled model 3.0 and 3.1 (GC3.0 & GC3.1) configurations. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 10 (2). pp. 357-380. ISSN 1942-2466 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2017MS001115
2017
Dutra, L. M. M., da Rocha, R. P., Lee, R. W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1946-5559, Peres, J. R. R. and de Camargo, R. (2017) Structure and evolution of Subtropical Cyclone Anita as evaluated by heat and vorticity budgets. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 143 (704). pp. 1539-1553. ISSN 1477-870X doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3024
2016
Masato, G., Woollings, T., Williams, K. D., Hoskins, B. J. and Lee, R. W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1946-5559 (2016) A regime analysis of Atlantic winter jet variability applied to evaluate HadGEM3-GC2. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 142 (701). pp. 3162-3170. ISSN 1477-870X doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.2897
2015
McSweeney, C. F., Jones, R. G., Lee, R. W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1946-5559 and Rowell, D. P. (2015) Selecting CMIP5 GCMs for downscaling over multiple regions. Climate Dynamics, 44 (11). pp. 3237-3260. ISSN 0930-7575 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-014-2418-8
Lee, R. W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1946-5559 (2015) Storm track biases and changes in a warming climate from an extratropical cyclone perspective using CMIP5. PhD thesis, University of Reading.
2011
Hodges, K. I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0894-229X, Lee, R. W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1946-5559 and Bengtsson, L. (2011) A comparison of extra-tropical cyclones in recent re-analyses; ERA-Interim, NASA MERRA, NCEP CFSR and JRA-25. Journal of Climate, 24 (18). pp. 4888-4906. ISSN 1520-0442 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/2011JCLI4097.1
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