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| Storm Risk Mitigation The Storm Risk Mitigation programme comprises 3 main projects: Tempest focusing on how climate change will affect extratropical cyclones, Diamet that aims to improve the forecasting of the structure of cyclonic storms and Demon that addresses the impacts of storm rainfall and detailed predictions of urban flooding. I am working to integrate different aspects these projects by extending the technique of potential vorticity tracers used in Diamet to study the structure of storms in climate resolution models and the ability of those models to produce rainfall predictions that are useful for flood prediction. Cascade I previously worked as part of the Cascade project studying the formation and development of tropical convection. In particular, I was studying a West Africa test case and using predictions of the outgoing longwave radiation from numerical models to follow the predicted diurnal cycle in the growth and dissipation of thunderstorms. The results from different model resolutions and configuration were compared to that derived from the GERB instrument on Meteosat-8. |