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Dr. Kieran Hunt

NERC Independent Research Fellow in Tropical Meteorology and AI (NCAS)

Additional Responsibilities:

Research Interests:

  • Synoptic-scale tropical dynamics
  • Machine learning applications in meteorology
  • Extreme weather events, particularly over south Asia
  • Hydrology of India

Current Research Project:

  • MITRE: Using explainable artifical intelligence to better understand and predict natural hazards over India

Previous Research Projects:

  • BITMAP: Better understanding of Interregional Teleconnections for prediction in the Monsoon And Poles (funded by the Belmont Forum)
  • INCOMPASS: Interaction of Convective Organization and Monsoon Precipitation, Atmosphere, Surface and Sea (funded by NERC)
  • IMPROVE: Indian Monsoon PRecipitation over Orography: Verification and Enhancement of understanding (funded jointly by the UK Met Office and the Indian Ministry of Earth Sciences)

Former graduate students

  • Akshay Deoras (graduated 2022), whose PhD investigated seasonal and subseasonal forecasts of monsoon low pressure systems.

Current graduate students

  • Priya Bharati (started 2020), based at IIT Kharagpur. Lead supervisor is Pranab Deb. Her project is looking at climate change and variability over the Hindu Kush-Karakoram Himalaya.
  • Nischal Sharma (2020), based at IISER Mohali. Lead supervisor is Raju Attada. Her project is on exploring drivers of extreme precipitation over the Western Himalaya.
  • Karan Ruparell (2023), based at the University of Reading. I am the lead supervisor, with co-supervisors Hannah Cloke, Christel Prudhomme (ECMWF), and Florian Pappenberger (ECMWF). His project title is "Improving river streamflow forecasts using deep learning techniques".
  • Indrakshi Mukherjee (2023), based at the University of Reading. Lead supervisor is Andy Turner; I am a co-supervisor along with Ambrogio Volonte and Robert Lee. Her project title is "Understanding the potential for month-ahead prediction for monsoon systems".
  • Mehzooz Nizar (2024), based at the University of Reading. Lead supervisor is Reinhard Schiemann, with me, Andy Turner, and Steffen Tietsche (ECMWF) as co-supervisors. His project title is "How skilful are AI-based forecasts of monsoon weather?".
  • Matthew Calladine (2024), based at Newcastle University. Lead supervisor is Hannah Bloomfield; I am a co-supervisor along with David Greenwood (Newcastle) and Haider Ali (Newcastle). His project title is "The impacts of climate variability and climate change on the Indian power system".

Centaur Publications

Jump to: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016
Number of items: 45.

2024

Hunt, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755, Baudouin, J.-P., Turner, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876, Dimri, A. P., Jellani, G., Pooja, -, Chattopadhyay, R., Cannon, F., Arulalan, T., Shekhar, M. S., Sabin, T. P. and Palazzi, E. (2024) Western disturbances and climate variability: a review of recent developments. Weather and Climate Dynamics. ISSN 2698-4016 (In Press)

Hunt, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755 and Harrison, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5687-1903 (2024) A novel explainable deep learning framework for reconstructing South Asian palaeomonsoons. Climate of the Past. ISSN 1814-9332 (In Press)

Dijkstra, I. J., Bloomfield, H. C. and Hunt, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755 (2024) Identifying weather patterns responsible for renewable energy droughts over India. Advances in Geosciences (ADGEO). ISSN 1680-7340 (In Press)

Bharati, P., Deb, P., Hunt, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755, Orr, A. and Dash, M. K. (2024) ENSO-induced latitudinal variation of the subtropical jet modulates extreme winter precipitation over the Western Himalaya. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. ISSN 0256-1530 (In Press)

Xie, Y., Zhou, M., Hunt, K. M. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755 and Mauzerall, D. L. (2024) Recent improvements in PM_2.5 air quality in India benefited from meteorological variation. Nature Sustainability. ISSN 2398-9629 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-024-01366-y

Hunt, K. M. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755 and Bloomfield, H. C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5616-1503 (2024) Quantifying renewable energy potential and realised capacity in India: opportunities and challenges. Meteorological Applications, 31 (3). e2196. ISSN 1469-8080 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/met.2196

Hunt, K. M. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755 (2024) Increasing frequency and lengthening season of western disturbances is linked to increasing strength and delayed northward migration of the subtropical jet. Weather and Climate Dynamics, 5 (1). pp. 345-356. ISSN 2698-4016 doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-345-2024

Nischal, S., Attada, R., Hunt, K. M.R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755 and Barlow, M. (2024) Underlying physical mechanisms of winter precipitation extremes over India’s high mountain region. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. ISSN 1477-870X doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4661

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

Hunt, K. M. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755 and Turner, A. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876 (2023) Using interpretable gradient-boosted decision-tree ensembles to uncover novel dynamical relationships governing monsoon low-pressure systems. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. ISSN 1477-870X doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4582

Deoras, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-5407-6520, Turner, A. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876, Hunt, K. M. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755 and Priyanthika Jayawardena, I. M. S. (2023) The influence of weather patterns and the Madden-Julian Oscillation on extreme precipitation over Sri Lanka. Geophysical Research Letters, 50 (14). e2023GL103727. ISSN 0094-8276 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL103727

Hunt, K. M. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755 (2023) Could artificial intelligence win the next Weather Photographer of the Year competition? Weather, 78 (4). pp. 108-112. ISSN 0043-1656 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/wea.4348

Hunt, K. M. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755 and Zaz, S. N. (2023) Linking the North Atlantic Oscillation to winter precipitation over the Western Himalaya through disturbances of the subtropical jet. Climate Dynamics, 60. pp. 2389-2403. ISSN 0930-7575 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-022-06450-7

2022

Kalshetti, M., Chattopadhyay, R., Hunt, K. M. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755, Phani, R., Joseph, S., Pattanaik, D. R. and Sahai, A. K. (2022) Eddy transport, wave-mean flow interaction, and Eddy forcing during the 2013 Uttarakhand extreme event in the reanalysis and S2S retrospective forecast data. International Journal of Climatology, 42 (16). pp. 8248-8268. ISSN 0899-8418 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.7706

Nischal, , Attada, R. and Hunt, K. M. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755 (2022) Evaluating winter precipitation over the western Himalayas in a high-resolution Indian regional reanalysis using multi-source climate datasets. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 61 (11). pp. 1613-1633. ISSN 1558-8432 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-21-0172.1

Deoras, A., Turner, A. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876 and Hunt, K. M. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755 (2022) The structure of strong Indian monsoon low-pressure systems in Subseasonal-to-Seasonal prediction models. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 148 (746). pp. 2147-2166. ISSN 1477-870X doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4296

Hunt, K. M. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755, Turner, A. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876 and Schiemann, R. K. H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3095-9856 (2022) Katabatic and convective processes drive two preferred peaks in the precipitation diurnal cycle over the Central Himalaya. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 148 (745). pp. 1731-1751. ISSN 1477-870X doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4275

Hunt, K. M. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755 and Turner, A. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876 (2022) Non-linear intensification of monsoon low pressure systems by the BSISO. Weather and Climate Dynamics, 3 (4). pp. 1341-1358. ISSN 2698-4024 doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-3-1341-2022

Hunt, K. M. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755, Matthews, G. R., Pappenberger, F. and Prudhomme, C. (2022) Using a long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network to boost river streamflow forecasts over the western United States. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 26 (21). pp. 5449-5472. ISSN 1027-5606 doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-5449-2022

2021

Hunt, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755 and Dimri, A. P. (2021) Synoptic-scale precursors of landslides in the western Himalaya and Karakoram. Science of the Total Environment, 776. 145895. ISSN 0048-9697 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145895

Hunt, K. M. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755, Turner, A. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876 and Schiemann, R. K. H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3095-9856 (2021) How interactions between tropical depressions and western disturbances affect heavy precipitation in South Asia. Monthly Weather Review, 149 (6). pp. 1801-1825. ISSN 0027-0644 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-20-0373.1

Deoras, A., Hunt, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755 and Turner, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876 (2021) The four varieties of South Asian monsoon low-pressure systems and their modulation by tropical intraseasonal variability. Weather, 76 (6). pp. 194-200. ISSN 0043-1656 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/wea.3997

Hunt, K. M. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755, Turner, A. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876, Stein, T. H. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9215-5397, Fletcher, J. K. and Schiemann, R. H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3095-9856 (2021) Modes of coastal precipitation over southwest India and their relationship to intraseasonal variability. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 147 (734). pp. 181-201. ISSN 1477-870X doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3913

Deoras, A., Hunt, K. M. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755 and Turner, A. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876 (2021) Comparison of the prediction of Indian monsoon low-pressure systems by Subseasonal-to-Seasonal prediction models. Weather and Forecasting, 36 (3). pp. 859-877. ISSN 0882-8156 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-20-0081.1

2020

Hunt, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755, Turner, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876 and Shaffrey, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2696-752X (2020) The impacts of climate change on the winter water cycle of the western Himalaya. Climate Dynamics, 55 (7-8). pp. 2287-2307. ISSN 0930-7575 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-020-05383-3

Martin, G. M., Brooks, M. E., Johnson, B., Milton, S. F., Webster, S., Jayakumar, A., Mitra, A. K., Rajan, D. and Hunt, K. M. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755 (2020) Forecasting the monsoon on daily to seasonal time‐scales in support of a field campaign. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 146 (731). pp. 2906-2927. ISSN 1477-870X doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3620

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

Barton, E. J., Taylor, C. M., Parker, D. J., Turner, A. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876, Belusic, D., Boeing, S. J., Brooke, J. K., Harlow, R. C., Harris, P. P., Hunt, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755, Jayakumar, A. and Mitra, A. K. (2020) A case-study of land-atmosphere coupling during monsoon onset in northern India. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 146 (731). pp. 2891-2905. ISSN 1477-870X doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3538

Fletcher, J. K., Parker, D. J., Turner, A. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876, Menon, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9347-0578, Martin, G. M., Birch, C. E., Mitra, A. K., Mrudula, G., Hunt, K. M. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755, Taylor, C. M., Houze, R. A., Brodzik, S. R. and Bhat, G. S. (2020) The dynamic and thermodynamic structure of the monsoon over southern India: new observations from the INCOMPASS IOP. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 146 (731). pp. 2867-2890. ISSN 1477-870X doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3439

Hunt, K. M. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755 and Menon, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9347-0578 (2020) The 2018 Kerala floods: a climate change perspective. Climate Dynamics, 54. pp. 2433-2446. ISSN 0930-7575 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-020-05123-7

2019

Hunt, K. M. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755 and Turner, A. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876 (2019) The role of the subtropical jet in deficient winter precipitation across the mid-Holocene Indus basin. Geophysical Research Letters, 46 (10). pp. 5452-5459. ISSN 0094-8276 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL081920

Hunt, K. M. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755, Turner, A. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876 and Shaffrey, L. C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2696-752X (2019) Representation of western disturbances in CMIP5 models. Journal of Climate, 32. pp. 1997-2011. ISSN 1520-0442 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0420.1

Hunt, K. M. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755, Turner, A. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876 and Shaffrey, L. C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2696-752X (2019) Falling trend of western disturbances in future climate simulations. Journal of Climate, 32. pp. 5037-5051. ISSN 1520-0442 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0601.1

Hunt, K. M. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755 and Fletcher, J. K. (2019) The relationship between Indian monsoon rainfall and low-pressure systems. Climate Dynamics, 53 (3-4). pp. 1859-1871. ISSN 0930-7575 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-019-04744-x

2018

Hunt, K. M. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755, Curio, J., Turner, A. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876 and Schiemann, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3095-9856 (2018) Subtropical westerly jet influence on occurrence of western disturbances and Tibetan plateau vortices. Geophysical Research Letters, 45 (16). pp. 8629-8636. ISSN 0094-8276 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL077734

Hunt, K. M. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755, Turner, A. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876 and Shaffrey, L. C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2696-752X (2018) Extreme daily rainfall in Pakistan and north India: scale-interactions, mechanisms, and precursors. Monthly Weather Review, 146 (4). pp. 1005-1022. ISSN 0027-0644 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-17-0258.1

Fletcher, J. K., Parker, D. J., Hunt, K. M. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755, Vishwanathan, G. and Govindankutty, M. (2018) The interaction of Indian monsoon depressions with northwesterly mid-level dry intrusions. Monthly Weather Review, 146 (3). pp. 679-693. ISSN 0027-0644 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/mwr-d-17-0188.1

Hunt, K. M. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755, Turner, A. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876 and Shaffrey, L. C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2696-752X (2018) The evolution, seasonality, and impacts of western disturbances. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 144 (710). pp. 278-290. ISSN 1477-870X doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3200

2017

Hunt, K. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755 and Turner, A. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876 (2017) The effect of soil moisture perturbations on Indian Monsoon Depressions in a numerical weather prediction model. Journal of Climate, 30 (21). pp. 8811-8823. ISSN 1520-0442 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0733.1

Willetts, P. D., Turner, A. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876, Martin, G. M., Mrudula, G., Hunt, K. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755, Parker, D. J., Taylor, C. M., Birch, C. E., Mitra, A. K., Heming, J. T. and Brooks, M. E. (2017) The 2015 Indian summer monsoon onset - phenomena, forecasting and research flight planning. Weather, 72 (6). pp. 168-175. ISSN 1477-8696 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/wea.2819

Hunt, K. M. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755 and Turner, A. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876 (2017) The effect of horizontal resolution on Indian monsoon depressions in the Met Office NWP model. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 143 (705). pp. 1756-1771. ISSN 1477-870X doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3030

Hunt, K. M. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755 (2017) On the behaviour of tropical depressions and their interaction with the Indian Monsoon Trough Region. PhD thesis, University of Reading.

2016

Hunt, K. M. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755, Turner, A. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876 and Parker, D. E. (2016) The spatiotemporal structure of precipitation in Indian monsoon depressions. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 142 (701). pp. 3195-3210. ISSN 0035-9009 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.2901

Hunt, K. M. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755, Turner, A. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876, Inness, P. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-5795-6841, Parker, D. E. and Levine, R. C. (2016) On the structure and dynamics of Indian monsoon depressions. Monthly Weather Review, 144 (9). pp. 3391-3416. ISSN 0027-0644 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-15-0138.1

Hunt, K. M. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-3755 and Parker, D. J. (2016) The movement of Indian Monsoon Depressions by interaction with image vortices near the Himalayan Wall. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 142 (698). pp. 2224-2229. ISSN 1477-870X doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.2812

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