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Robin Hogan
Professor of Atmospheric Physics
Head of Department for Research
Latest news
- May 2012: A new method to perform reverse-mode automatic
differentiation has been developed using the expression template
programming technique and is found to be 5-9 times faster than the
current leading tools providing the same
functionality: Learn more...
- January 2012: We're moving into the busiest phase of my "DYMECS"
project to evaluate the evolution of thunderstorms in the Met Office
forecast model using radar: Kirsty Hanley has recently started on the
modelling side, Thorwald Stein has started
a DYMECS website to describe the cases so far,
and I appeared on
a NERC
podcast to outline the project.
- January 2012: The second edition
of Forecast
Verification has been published, including a chapter by Robin
Hogan and Ian Mason on verifying forecasts of binary events. This
includes an exhaustive evaluation of different binary performance
measures and a general method to calculate the error on performance
measures.
- November 2011:
My paper has been
accepted showing that ice particles should be treated
as smarties not
gobstoppers when it comes to calculating their radar scattering
properties.
- October 2011: New version of radar
and lidar multiple scattering code released. New features include
full Fortran 90 interface, full adjoint code for retrieval algorithms
using quasi-Newton minimization and efficient modelling of multiple
field-of-view and HSRL lidars.
- December 2010:
Our ice
cloud products derived from combining the CloudSat radar and
Calipso lidar have been released. The method is described in
the 2010
paper by Julien Delanoe and myself
Research
My research concerns clouds, radiative transfer and remote sensing
with radar and lidar. I lead the Clouds
Group, although we overlap heavily with
the Radar Group and many of us participate
in Radiation Group meetings. At Reading I
collaborate with a number of other members of academic staff, and I
am currently involved in funded projects
with Christine
Chiu, Helen
Dacre, Anthony
Illingworth, Bob Plant
and Giles Harrison. I am also
an NCEO PI. Please note that I
am not an expert on weather modification and so will be unable to
answer any queries on this topic.
Some freely available research codes I have written:
Teaching resources
Contact details
- Address Room 2L77, Department of Meteorology, PO Box 243,
Earley Gate, Reading RG6 6BB, UK.
- Tel +44 (0)118 3786416
- Fax +44 (0)118 3788905
- Email r.j.hogan@reading.ac.uk
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A review of Reading Curry Houses in the style of an enduring
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