My Research

My main research interests are seasonal prediction and large scale modes of variability. I am currently looking at the predictability of Arctic Sea Ice.

Past Research

I have just completed a post-doc working in partnership with the Met Office looking at how we could improve the seasonal forecasting model to improve predictions for the Atlantic European sector. In particular I focussed on the North Atlantic Oscillation and how models of varying resolution represent it; more details can be found in the PACE section of my web pages. We have also looked into the impact of North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperatures on Atlantic climate. We have found a significant impact and more details are on a poster presented at IAMAS in 2009

For my thesis I looked at temperature variability patterns in the Northern Hemisphere and how these might be affected by changes in carbon dioxide.

I have spent some time looking at the impacts of ozone depletion on the Southern Annular Mode and I am developing a fixed dynamical heating verion of the Met Office Unified Model. This has turned out to be far more tricky than I first imagined so this is now a spare time project which I am hoping to start testing soon....