Positions:

• Co-chief Editor, Quarterly Journal of Royal Meteorological Society
• Co-chair of the WMO Working Group on Predictability, Dynamics and Ensemble Forecasting
• Department Director of International Partnerships

Research Interests:

• Dynamics of weather systems with emphasis on the evolution of extratropical and tropical cyclones, jet streams, Rossby waves and equatorial waves
• Predictability of the atmosphere including the dependence of high impact weather prediction on larger scale phenomena and the use of ensemble forecasting
• Airborne transport of atmospheric constituents, such as water vapour and pollution
• Designing field experiments to test theories and evaluate physically-based numerical models
• Theory for slowly varying components of the atmosphere and propagation of wave activity

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Research Projects:

• Arctic Summertime Cyclones project and field experiment
• Huracan project investigating the risk of tropical cyclones to western Europe and NE America in a changing climate
• Forecasting for Southeast Asia (FORSEA) - a Newton Fund project focussing on increasing predictive skill across Southeat Asia using the links between equatorial waves and extreme rainfall. Working with met agencies in Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam and Malaysia.
• Fundamental influences of equatorial waves on tropical weather systems (NERC and Newton Fund)
• North Atlantic Waveguide and Downstream Impacts Experiment (NAWDEX)
• Diabatic influences on mesoscale structures in extratropical storms (DIAMET)
• UK-wide wind power resource: extremes and variability, funded by National Grid

Postdoctoral researchers, PhD students & co-supervisors

• Ambrogio Volonte is research staff working on the Arctic Summertime Cyclones project.
• Ben Harvey is research staff in NCAS working with Len Shaffrey. He works on aspects of large-scale dynamics and predictability.
• Guiying Yang is research staff in NCAS working with co-I Steve Woolnough. She works on equatorial waves and their behaviour in observations and models.
• Sam Ferrett working on high impact weather in Southeast Asia, the link with large-scale equatorial waves and predictive skill on a Newton Fund project with co-Is Oscar Martinez-Alvarado, Chris Holloway, Tom Frame, Steve Woolnough and Kevin Hodges.
• Xiangbo Feng is research staff in NCAS working with co-I Kevin Hodges. His research focuses on the predictability of tropical cyclones and ensemble forecasting.
• Dominic Jones recently finished his PhD working with the ECMWF on explaining timescales associated with jet stream variability. His co-supervisors were Tom Frame and Paul Berrisford (ECMWF).
• Kristine Boykin recently finished her PhD working with the Met Office on extracting likely scenarios from high resolution ensemble forecasts in real-time. Her co-supervisors were Tom Frame, Nigel Roberts and Stephen Moseley (Met Office).
• Jake Bland recently finished his PhD working on a project with the ECMWF on the control of cloud and moisture on extratropical cyclone evolution. His lead supervisor is Sue Gray with co-I Richard Forbes (ECMWF).
• James Fallon is a 4th year PhD student working on a project with BT on Understanding forecast value in complex decision-making systems. His lead supervisor is David Brayshaw with co-I Kjeld Jensen (BT).
• David Richardson works at ECMWF and is a PhD student (part-time) working on the behaviour of ensemble forecasts. His lead supervisor is Hannah Cloke.
• Hannah Croad is a 4th year PhD student working with the ECMWF and University of Oklahoma on Arctic summer-time cyclone growth and sea-ice interaction. Her co-supervisors are Ben Harvey, Sarah Keeley (ECMWF) and David Parsons (University of Oklahoma).
• Doug Wood is a 2nd year PhD student working on a project with the ECMWF on the links between Arctic weather systems and predictability in the mid-latitudes. His lead supervisor is Sue Gray with co-I Mark Rodwell (ECMWF).
• Elliot McKinnon-Gray is a 1st year PhD student working on a project with the Met Office on convectively coupled equatorial waves and their role in the predictive skill of forecasts. His co-supervisors are Tom Frame, Anne McCabe and Nigel Roberts (Met Office).
• Xueqing Ling is a 1st year PhD student working on the coupling between Arctic cyclones and the surface. Her lead supervisor is Sue Gray .