MetOffice@Reading - Scientific manager regional system evaluation

Research Interests:

• Current and future changes in the global water cycle
• Earth's radiative energy balance and climate
• Evaluating simulation of Earth's climate with observations

Recent Research Projects:

• Libera - Understanding Earth's Energy Budget project
• Diagnosing Earth's Energy Pathways in the Climate system (DEEP-C)
• A new technique for measuring global rainfall (Rain from Space)
• INDECIS Climate Services
• Securing Multidisciplinary UndeRstanding and Prediction of Hiatus and Surge events (SMURPHS)
• Dynamics-aerosol-chemistry-cloud interactions in West Africa (DACCIWA)
• Susceptibility of catchments to intense rainfall and flooding (SINATRA)
• Understanding past and future changes in the water cycle (PAGODA)
• Hydrological extremes and feedbacks in the changing water cycle (HydEF)
• Tropical Applications of Meteorology using SATellite data and ground-based observations (TAMSAT)

Recent Visiting Scientists, Postdoctoral Researchers & Graduate Students

• Ranjini Swaminathan - National Centre for Earth Observation UK Earth System Model scientist
• Thea Stevens - PhD student working on Upper Tropospheric Humidity
• Professor Chunlei Liu - Currently Visiting Scientist from GuangDong Ocean University, previously worked at University of Reading on projects related to the changing water cycle, Earth's energy balance and climate (PAGODA, DEEP-C, SMURPHS)
• Professor Albert Osso - Visiting Scientist from University of Graz (EU INDECIS)

• Philip Craig: impact relevant metrics over Europe (EU INDECIS)
• Daniel Watters: diurnal cycle of precipitation (PhD project)
• Dr Peter Hill: radiation-cloud interactions over west Africa (DACCIWA project)
• Caroline Wainwright: rainfall seasonality with a focus on Africa and part of the TAMSAT group
• Zahra Mousavi Earth's radiation budget and rainfall (PhD project)
• Dr Ross Maidment: Africa rainfall in the TAMSAT group
• Dr Adrian Champion: atmospheric precursors for extrme summer rainfall in the UK as part of SINATRA
• Kerian Ferreira: Hadley Cell changes and water resources (PhD project)

Other interests

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Public Engagement including the Media and Schools
• Adult Education courses/lectures on Weather and Climate
• Associate Editor - Journal of Climate
• National Centre for Earth Observation
• Walker Institute for Climate Systems Resarch - Research Associate
• Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget Satelite International Science Teams and Advisory Panel member
• NASA Libera project (Understanding Earth's Energy Budget - CERES follow-on)
• NASA Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System Science Team member
• Member of the Natural Environment Research Council peer review college
• EUMETSAT CMSAF review board chair
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lead author
• Buchan Prize from the RMetS

Last update: 1st November 2024