Department of Meteorology, University of Reading

Current research projects:

SF-NARMAX: Northwest European Seasonal Weather Prediction from Complex Systems Modelling. Aims to improve Northwest European regional seasonal weather prediction through the development of innovative probabilistic statistical forecasts of the state of the North Atlantic jet stream and by comparison of these forecasts with those produced using dynamical seasonal forecasting models. Funded by NERC.

UK Centre for Greening Finance and Invenstment. Aims to accelerate the adoption and use of climate and environmental data and analytics by financial institutions internationally. Funded by UKRI.

Previous research projects:

VegCast: Aims to develop a state-of-the-art crop forecasting model that will provide growers with predictions of the timing of harvest and yield estimates for their broccoli crops. Funded by Ceres Agri-Tech.

IMPETUS (Improving Predictions of Drought for User Decision-Making). Part of the NERC UK Droughts and Water Scarcity programme. My particular role in the project was to evaluate and improve the skill of seasonal-to-decadal forecasts of UK drought.

ECLIPSE: This project aimed to assess emission reduction strategies for short-lived climate forcers and evaluate their effects on climate change and air quality.

DIAMET. My work focussed on investigating sources of forecast error in high-resolution forecasts. In particular I developed and evaluated a method of representing model error in a convective-scale ensemble system.

I completed my PhD in 2011, also at Reading University, supervised by Suzanne Gray and Peter Clark (Met Office). My project, working with my two supervisors and Oscar Martinez-Alvarado, was looking at sting jets in severe northern-European windstorms.