Research - Richard P. Allan
My research is driven by the fundamental question: How much will the Earth warm in the current century and what are the implications for the global water cycle, upon which societies and ecosystems depend? I use Earth Observation data to explore fluctuations in clouds and precipitation, water vapour and the Earth's radiative energy balance and use this information to assess the realism of climate prediction models and improve our understanding of the climate system.
I am involved with the PAGODA and HYDEF projects, which form part of the NERC Changing Water Cycle programme, and also the related PREPARE project.
I work closely with NCEO, NCAS-Climate, the Walker Institute and the Met Office
Please click on the menu items for links to projects I am involved with.
CMIP5
PCMDI data | CMIP5 vocab | useful scripting | Local CMIP5 data | My data | WIKI |
Researchers
- Claire Barber - Phd on changes in marine boundary layer clouds in observations and models
- Viju John - HadIR JWCRP project (developing a climate water vapour satellite dataset)
- David Lavers - HydEF CWC project (understanding the relationship between weather events and river catchment responses)
- Chunlei Liu - PAGODA CWC project (understadning of the global hydrological cycle)
- Ross Maidment - PhD on developing an African rainfall climate dataset (TARCAT)
- Charlie Williams - CALM project (assessing land surface feedbacks in CMIP5 models)
- Matthias Zahn - PREPARE project (links between radiative cooling and precipitation responses)
Right: some recent SEVIRI water vapour and window brightness temperature images (See latest comparisons...). Note, if these are blank then the SEVIRI data are missing!