IMPALA

The goal of the Improving Model Processes for African Climate project (IMPALA) is to improve the representation of key processes for the simulation of African Climate Change in climate models (particularly the Met Office Unified Model) to enable improved predictions of the future climate of Africa. The project is funded under the joint NERC/DfiD Future Climate for Africa Programme.

My post is focussed on improving the representation of atmospheric deep convection in the Met Office Climate Models. I will be designing, performing and analysing cloud resolving simulations of deep convection over large domains, along with companion low resolution simulations to inform parameterisation development at the Met Office. I will be paying particular attention to diagnosing processes controlling the time evolution and spatial orgainisation of convection and the interaction of convection with the land surface.

Here's my most recent talk given at the IMPALA science meeting at the Met office 14/15 January 2019: Analysing high resolution simulations of the diurnal cycle of deep convection

Here's the slides for my talk given at the IMPALA science meeting in Leeds 19/20 January 2017: Development of tools to analyse the TKE budget of an idealised diurnal cycle

Here's the poster I presented at the (Future of Cumulus Parameterisation workshop) in Delft in July 2017: The diurnal cycle of the TKE budget.

This work is closely aligned to the ParaCon project which aims to significantly improve the representation of convection across model scales from 1-100km.