Thorwald Stein - Associate Professor in Clouds

(Last update: 26 June 2023)

This page presents an overview of achievements in the past 6 months. For my full list of publications, please visit my staff page.

WesCon-WOEST has launched (5 June 2023)

I am part of the NERC-funded project "WesCon - Observing Evolving Turbulent Structures (WOEST)", which was awarded £1.3m as part of the NERC Turbulent Processes research programme. The project complements the WesCon field campaign, coordinated by the Met Office, by providing a large number of research-grade radars and lidars, as well as more than 600 radiosondes. In my research work package, we have developed an automated algorithm that tracks a convective storm using the Chilbolton Advanced Meteorological Radar (as we did in DYMECS), but that also steers the NCAS mobile Ka-band radar, "Kepler" if the storm is within range. This enables us to view the same storm from different angles, providing a more complete picture of the 3D dynamic and turbulent structure. On top of that, we are in live communication with the FAAM research aircraft so that it can target the same storm that we are scanning, to constrain our updraft and turbulence retrievals. Read the University's press release.

Cloud structures and convective aggregation (18 February 2023)

The second paper by Kieron Pope, PhD student supervised by Chris Holloway, Todd Jones and myself, describing the variation of cloud-radiation interactions with different degrees of convective aggregation in RCEMIP simulations has been published online in the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems.