Prof. Andrew Turner, PhD

Download my summary poster on Monsoon@Reading research activities.

I always welcome enquiries from potential PhD students, visiting PhD students or for internships during degrees.

Workshops

• Global Monsoons Model Intercomparison Project (GMMIP) contribution to CMIP6 first workshop. 28-30 October 2018, IAP, Beijing, China. Co-organised in my role as Co-Chair of GMMIP with Prof. Tianjun Zhou
• University of Hamburg and University of Reading co-organized workshop: International Workshop on Water and Air Challenges in the HKH Under Climate and Environmental Change: Opportunities Using a Transdisciplinary Approach. 7-8 November 2014, ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal
• Lead organiser of International Workshop on Interdecadal Variability of the Global Monsoons: 10-12 September 2012, Nanjing University of Information Science and Tehcnology (NUIST), Nanjing, China, on behalf of CLIVAR Asian-Australian Monsoon Panel

Ongoing collaborations

• Working together with Dr Gill Martin running the Met Office-NCAS Monsoon Working Group aiming to understand and improve behaviour of monsoon systems in the HadGEM family of Met Office Unified Models

Projects

• Co-I leading UoR contribution to NERC highlight topic grant EMERGENCE, 2019-2022, led by Mat Collins at University of Exeter. Other Co-Investigators at UoR are Ed Hawkins and Pier-Luigi Vidale
• PI leading the DFID/Met Office WCSSP-India STIMULATE project (Seasonal Teleconnections to the Indian Monsoon: Understanding the Large-scale Atmospheric Tropical Environment), 2019-2021. Project also involves University of East Anglia, University of Edinburgh and University of Leeds. Other Co-Investigators at UoR are Nick Klingaman and Kevin Hodges
• PI leading the DFID/Met Office WCSSP-India IMPROVE project (Indian Monsoon PRecipitation over Orography: Verification and Enhancement of understanding), 2019-2021. Other Co-Investigators at UoR are Thorwald Stein and Reinhard Schiemann. Project also involves University of Leeds
• PI leading the Belmont Forum/JPI-Climate Collaborative Research Action on Climate Predictability and Interregional linkages: BITMAP project (Better understanding of Interregional Teleconnections for prediction in the Monsoon and Poles), 2016-2020. International consortium with University of Hamburg and National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts, India. Co-Investigators are Valerio Lucarini (Hamburg), Ashis Mitra and EN Rajagopal (NCMRWF, India).
• PI leading the major NERC/MoES project INCOMPASS (Interaction of Convective Organisation and Monsoon Precipitation, Atmosphere, Surface and Sea). This project involves a ground and airborne field campaign in 2016, using the FAAM aircraft. Supervision of Dr Arathy Menon.

Previous projects and positions

• Co-I leading monsoon research in NERC large consortium grant REAL Projections (Robust Spatial Projections of Real-World Climate Change), 2016-2020, led by Mat Collins at University of Exeter. Supervision of Dr Jon Shonk. Other Co-Investigators at UoR are Ed Hawkins as lead and Rowan Sutton
• Co-I on Met Office CSSP-China project PERCHANCE, 2018-2020. Co-supervision of Dr Amulya Chevuturi, Dr Julia Curio and Dr Liang Guo. Project PI is Dr Nick Klingaman. With Co-Is Prof. Pier-Luigi Vidale, Dr Reinhard Schiemann and Dr Kevin Hodges
• Co-I on Met Office CSSP-China projects 2015-2018:
  • MESETA (CSSP-Tibetan Plateau). Co-supervision of Dr Mike Wong, investigating the relative role of dynamic and thermodynamic forcing on the Asian monsoon and participating in the Global Monsoon MIP, and Dr Julia Curio, investigating Tibetan Plateau Vortices (TPVs) and their downstream impacts on East Asia. Project PI is Dr Reinhard Schiemann.
  • DREAM (Drivers of variability in the East Asian monson). Co-supervision of Dr Liang Guo and Dr Claudia Stephan. Project PI is Dr Nick Klingaman. With Co-Is Prof. Pier-Luigi Vidale and Dr Marie-Estelle Demory..
• Co-I on the Met Office-led IMPALA project under the DFID/NERC Future Climate For Africa programme FCFA. Supervision of Dr Linda Hirons.
• PI on Indian Monsoon Mission project funded by the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES). Supervision of PDRA Dr Stephanie Bush to examine the causes of biases in forecasts of the South Asian monsoon in the MetUM system on time scales of days to the season
• NERC Changing Water Cycle (South Asia) projects:
  • UoR PI on Hydrometeorological feedbacks and changes in water storage and fluxes in northern India (Hydroflux-India) led by Dr Wouter Buytaert at Imperial College; see project homepage. Supervision of PDRA Dr Charlie Williams to determine the local and large-scale monsoon impacts of changes in surface water relating to expansion of agriculture in the Ganges basin
  • UoR Co-I on South Asian PRecIpitation: a SEamless Assessment - SAPRISE led by Prof. Mat Collins at Exeter University. At UoR, project is led by Prof. Ellie Highwood. Supervision of PDRA Dr Liang Guo to determine relative impact of local and remote aerosol forcing on the South Asian monsoon
  Both of the CWC projects involve significant partnerships with Indian institutions as funded by the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MOES).
• PI and Co-I on Met Office CSSP short projects October 2014 - March 2015:
  • PI on WP2.3 - Predictability of regional climate and modes of variability. Working with Ed Hawkins and Emma Suckling on interannual-to-decadal variability for East Asia; and Nick Klingaman and Linda Hirons on subseasonal variability
  • Co-I on WP3.3 - High resolution modelling of the East Asian monsoon; working with Liang Guo on this project led by Pier-Luigi Vidale
• PI on the NERC/Met Office Joint Weather and Climate Research Programme (JWCRP) project Modelling Monsoon Systems together with Gill Martin at the UK Met Office. Supervision of PDRA Dr Stephanie Bush (2010-2014) to explore the sensitivity of monsoon biases in the Met Office Unified model to convective parametrization and model resolution
• Personal NERC Fellowship on The future of the Indian monsoon, exploring future changes in the mean and variability of monsoon rainfall and the uncertainties therein (2011-2014)
• Core-funded Scientist in NCAS-Climate (2009-2011)
• PDRA with Julia Slingo on the EU-ENSEMBLES project (RT4) (2006-2008)

Supervisory roles

PDRA

• Supervisor, Dr Paul-Arthur Monerie in the EMERGENCE project (2020-2021)
• Line Manager and supervisor, Dr James Mollard on the STIMULATE project (2019-2021)
• Line Manager and supervisor, Dr Ambrogio Volonté in the INCOMPASS project (2017-2020)
• Line Manager and supervisor, Dr Kieran Hunt on BITMAP project (2016-2019) followed by the IMPROVE project (2019-2021)
• Line Manager and supervisor, Dr Arathy Menon on the INCOMPASS project (2015-2020)
• Line Manager and supervisor, Dr Jon Shonk on REAL projections project (2017-2020)
• Line Manager and co-supervisor, Dr Mike Wong on CSSP-Tibetan Plateau/MESETA project (2015-2018)
• Co-supervisor, Dr Julia Curio on CSSP-Tibetan Plateau/MESETA project (2015-2018)
• Co-supervisor, Dr Liang Guo on CSSP-DREAM project (2015-2018)
• Co-supervisor, Dr Claudia Stephan on CSSP-DREAM project (2015-2018)
• Line Manager and supervisor, Dr Amulya Chevuturi on Indian Monsoon Mission project (2016-2017)
• Supervisor, Dr Stephanie Bush on Indian Monsoon Mission project (2014-2015)
• Supervisor, Dr Charlie Williams on Changing Water Cycle (South Asia) project Hydroflux-India (2013-2015)
• Co-supervisor, Dr Liang Guo on Changing Water Cycle (South Asia) project SAPRISE (2012-2015)
• Supervisor, Dr Stephanie Bush on JWCRP Modelling Monsoon Systems project (2010-2014)

PhD

lead supervisor indicated in bold where necessary

1. Catherine Toolan on The role of anthropogenic aerosol in near-future sub-Saharan precipitation change, with Dr Laura Wilcox (lead) and Bjørn Samset, CICERO, Oslo (2022-present)
2. Marimel Gler on modelling and forecasting the Indian Ocean dipole, with Dr Linda Hirons, Dr Caroline Wainwright, and Dr Charline Marzin as Met Office CASE supervisor (2021-present)
3. Md. Rabiul Awal on hemispheric energy transports and the Asian monsoon with Dr David Ferriera (2020-present)



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4. Akshay Deoras on The Predictability and Representation of South Asian Monsoon Low-Pressure Systems in Reanalyses and Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Prediction Models with Dr Kieran Hunt (2018-2022)
5. Alex Doyle on Use of Operational Weather Radars for Understanding Indian Monsoon Convection and Evaluating Convection-Permitting Models with Dr Thorwald Stein (2018-2022)
6. Karl Johari Chan on The intraseasonal variability of the Indian summer monsoon: Dynamics, thermodynamics and land-atmosphere-ocean interactions, with Dr Nick Klingaman (2016-2020)
7. Ying Ying Toh on The role of Southeast Asia and Maritime Continent in tropical climate variability and teleconnections, with Dr Chris Holloway (2014-2019) | Paper: Maritime Continent seasonal climate biases in AMIP experiments of the CMIP5 multimodel ensemble
8. Kieran Hunt on Event-based characterisation of synoptic systems in the monsoon trough region, with Dr Pete Inness and CASE supervisors Dr Richard Levine and Dr David Parker at the Met Office (2013-2016) | Paper: On the structure and dynamics of Indian monsoon depressions | Paper: The spatio-temporal structure of precipitation in Indian monsoon depressions | Paper: The effect of horizontal resolution on Indian monsoon depressions in the Met Office NWP model
9. Deepthi Marathayil on The Indian Ocean mean state and variability in a high resolution coupled climate model: HiGEM, with Dr Len Shaffrey (lead) (2008-2013) | related ERL paper
10. Liang Guo on The effect of changes in anthropogenic aerosols on regional rainfall anomalies in China, with Prof. Ellie Highwood (lead) and Dr Len Shaffrey (2008-2012) | related ACP paper
11. Sridhar Gummadi on Simulating the impacts of extreme climate events on crop productivity in current and future climates in India, with Prof. Tim Wheeler (lead) and Dr Tom Osborne (2007-2011)

Visting PhD students

• Rohini
• Inma

Taught projects

• For my MSc and UG supervision roles, see my teaching page