Dr. Mark Muetzelfeldt
Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Atmospheric Convection
PDRA on UPFLO: Improving understanding and modelling of convective UPdraFts and anvil cLOuds
- Part of Advancing the Frontiers of Earth System Prediction (AFESP) research programme
- Research convective updrafts and their interactions with anvil clouds and larger scales
- Improve their representation in global km-scale models
- Collaborate with partners in ECMWF, the UK Met Office, NCAS, Colorado State University, and the University of Leeds
- Analyse observations from the WesCon field campaign made using the large radar at Chilbolton and other observation platforms
- Analyse new satellite-borne radar data (EarthCARE and INCUS).
Responsibilities (current and previous):
- STEM/Climate Ambassador
- Technical PI for HPC resources on MCS:PRIME project
- Buddy coordinator
- Demonstrating on two modules
Previous Research Roles:
2022-2024: PDRA on MCS:PRIME (Mesoscale Convective Systems: PRobabilistic forecasting and upscale IMpacts in the grey zonE) project
- Analysed the global environments of MCSs using ERA5 and an MCS tracking dataset
- Represented MCSs in global models with novel stochastic parametrization scheme
- Academic visitor at Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics (AOPP), University of Oxford
- Technical PI of HPC resources
2021-2022: PDRA on USM (Urban-Scale Modelling) project
- Compared different microphysics schemes in the Unified Model Nesting Suite
- Diagnosed the eddy dissipation rate and cloud updraft statistics
- Performed simulations with a prognostic TKE scheme
- Took active role in organizational aspects of project
2019-2021: PDRA on COSMIC (COnvective-Scale Modelling In China) project
- Part of CSSP China WP4
- Evaluated precipitation in 3 configurations of a high-resolution (10 km) GCM simulations over China
- Developed BAsin-Scale Model Analysis ToolkIt (BASMATI)
- Used BASMATI to analyse the 2020 China floods
- Investigated intraseasonal oscillations of the Silk Road Pattern using EOFs
Postdoctoral & graduate student supervision
- Deepti Dahiya: Investigating the coupling between clouds, circulation and radiation in the tropics, and its relationship with ENSO, the ITCZ and the MJO.
Research Interests:
- Organized deep convection
- Mesoscale convective systems
- Parametrization of (organized) deep convection
- High-resolution limited-area/idealized modelling
- km-scale global modelling
- Coupling between deep convection, anvil clouds, and circulation
- Radiative feedbacks of organized deep convection
- Radar retrievals of vertical motions and convective updrafts
- MCS tracking
Centaur Publications
2025
Zhang, Z., Christensen, H. M., Muetzelfeldt, M. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6851-7351, Wollings, T., Plant, R. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8808-0022, Stirling, A. J., Whitall, M. A., Moncrieff, M. W., Chen, C.-C. and Feng, Z.
(2025)
Advancing organized convection representation in the unified model: implementing and enhancing multiscale coherent structure parameterization.
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems.
ISSN 1942-2466
(In Press)
Muetzelfeldt, M. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6851-7351, Plant, R. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8808-0022, Christensen, H. M., Zhang, Z., Woollings, T., Feng, Z. and Li, P.
(2025)
Environmental conditions affecting global mesoscale convective system occurrence.
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 82 (2).
pp. 391-407.
ISSN 1520-0469
doi: 10.1175/JAS-D-24-0058.1
2023
Li, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4812-2184, Song, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3004-1749, Chen, H., Li, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7223-0022, Prein, A. F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6250-179X, Zhang, W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8614-8070, Zhou, T., Zhuang, M., Furtado, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5166-112X, Muetzelfeldt, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6851-7351, Schiemann, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3095-9856 and Li, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2556-0891
(2023)
Intensification of mesoscale convective systems in the East Asian rainband over the past two decades.
Geophysical Research Letters, 50 (16).
e2023GL103595.
ISSN 1944-8007
doi: 10.1029/2023GL103595
Li, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4812-2184, Muetzelfeldt, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6851-7351, Schiemann, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3095-9856, Chen, H., Li, J., Furtado, K. and Zhuang, M.
(2023)
Sensitivity of simulated mesoscale convective systems over East Asia to the treatment of convection in a high-resolution GCM.
Climate Dynamics, 60.
pp. 2783-2801.
ISSN 0930-7575
doi: 10.1007/s00382-022-06471-2
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, Vidale, P. L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1800-8460 and Menon, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9347-0578
(2023)
Intraseasonal oscillations of the Silk Road pattern lead to predictability in East Asian precipitation patterns and the Mei Yu front.
Environmental Research Communications, 5 (1).
015003.
ISSN 2515-7620
doi: 10.1088/2515-7620/acb040
2021
Muetzelfeldt, M. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6851-7351, Schiemann, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3095-9856, Turner, A. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876, Klingaman, N. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2927-9303, Vidale, P. L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1800-8460 and Roberts, M. J.
(2021)
Evaluation of Asian summer precipitation in different
configurations of a high-resolution general circulation
model in a range of decision-relevant spatial scales.
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 25 (12).
pp. 6381-6405.
ISSN 1027-5606
doi: 10.5194/hess-25-6381-2021
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: 10.1007/s00376-021-1085-z
Muetzelfeldt, M. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6851-7351, Plant, R. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8808-0022, Clark, P. A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1001-9226, Stirling, A. J. and Woolnough, S. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0500-8514
(2021)
A climatology of tropical wind shear produced by clustering wind profiles from the Met Office Unified Model (GA7.0).
Geoscientific Model Development, 14 (6).
pp. 4035-4049.
ISSN 1991-9603
doi: 10.5194/gmd-14-4035-2021
Li, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6632-8389, Li, Y., Zhao, T., Schiemann, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3095-9856, Muetzelfeldt, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6851-7351 and Jiang, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1727-9266
(2021)
Northeastward propagation of nocturnal precipitation over the Sichuan Basin.
International Journal of Climatology, 41 (S1).
E2863-E2879.
ISSN 0899-8418
doi: 10.1002/joc.6886
2020
Gu, J.-F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7752-4553, Plant, R. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8808-0022, Holloway, C. E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9903-8989 and Muetzelfeldt, M. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6851-7351
(2020)
Pressure drag for shallow cumulus clouds: from thermals to the cloud ensemble.
Geophysical Research Letters, 47 (22).
e2020GL090460.
ISSN 0094-8276
doi: 10.1029/2020GL090460
Muetzelfeldt, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6851-7351
(2020)
Designs for representing shear-induced
cloud field organization in a convection
parametrization scheme.
PhD thesis, University of Reading.
doi: 10.48683/1926.00096182
Last update: 9th December 2024
