Research Scientist

Webpages:

• ResearchGate
• LinkedIn
• ORCID

Research Interests:

• Data rescue
• Reanalysis datasets
• Large-scale atmospheric circulation
• Global hydrological cycle: precipitation and evaporation patterns, atmospheric moisture transport
• Ocean freshwater budgets: evaporation, precipitation and runoff
• Global salinity patterns
• Atlantic/Pacific asymmetries: moisture budget, salinity, meridional overturning circulation

Research Project:

• Weather Rescue

Research Groups

• Dynamical Processes
• Climate and Ocean Dynamics

Publications

• Catchment boundaries of ocean drainage basins. University of Reading. Dataset.
• The Atlantic/Pacific Atmospheric Moisture Budget Asymmetry: The Role of Atmospheric Moisture Transport. PhD thesis, University of Reading
• Craig, P.M., D. Ferreira, J. Methven, 2017. The contrast between Atlantic and Pacific surface water fluxes, Tellus A, 69, 1330454, doi: 10.1080/16000870.2017.1330454

Conference Presentations

• AGU Fall Meeting. Improving reconstructions of historical extreme weather events in 20CRv3 by rescuing undigitized observations with citizen scientists (poster). San Francisco, USA, December 2019.
• Atmospheric Science Conference. Findings From Weather Rescue Phase 2: the Met Office Daily Weather Reports 1900-1910. University of Birmingham, UK, July 2019.
• Lunchtime Seminar. The Atlantic/Pacific moisture budget asymmetry: the role of atmospheric moisture transport. Department of Meteorology, University of Reading. March 2018.
• AGU Fall Meeting. Using trajectories to understand the moisture budget asymmetry between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans (poster). New Orleans, USA, December 2017.
• 8th EGU Leonardo Conference. The contrast between Atlantic and Pacific surface water fluxes (oral). Ourense, Spain, October 2016.

Last update: 13th February 2019