Responsibilities:
Pier Luigi Vidale is Professor of Climate System Science at the UoR Meteorology Dept. and Senior Scientist at the Climate Directorate of
the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS-Climate ) in Reading.
Prof Vidale took on a new role in 2021, as first Director of the University of Reading - ECMWF Research Collaboration, which has now expanded to a new 15-year programme, called Advancing the Frotiers of Earth System Prediction, and broader partnership with ECMWF, Met Offfice and NCAS. Further particulars on this new activity are available here, including news: (AFESP)
Research Interests:
- High-resolution Global Climate Modelling
- Land Surface Processes and biosphere-atmosphere interactions
Research Projects:
Current:
- EERIE: European Eddy-Rich Earth System Models: (Horizon Europe)
- HRCM: High-resolution global Climate Modelling, a national capability research programme enabled by a long-term partnership between NERC and the Met Office.
- nextGEMS: Next Generation Earth Modelling Systems (Horizon 2020)
- Huracan: Hurricane Risk Amplification and Changing North Atlantic Natural Disaster (NERC-NSF)
- REPRESA (CLARE)
- ICCP-GSRA: International Core-to-Core Project on Global Storm Resolving Analysis (JSPS, led by Masaki Satoh, AORI, Japan)
- HRCM: High-resolution global Climate Modelling, a national capability research programme enabled by a long-term partnership between NERC and the Met Office.
Past:
- PRocess-based climate sIMulation: AdVances in high- resolution modelling and
European climate Risk Assessment: PRIMAVERA (Horizon 2020)
- Drivers of regional East Asian monsoon variability (DREAM), Met Office Climate Science for Service Partnership, CSSP China
- Wind Storm Climate Service (WISC) EU-Horizon 2020 Copernicus C3S Insurance Climate Services
- Improving Predictions of Drought for User Decision-Making (IMPETUS), NERC
- Hydrological cycle understanding via process-based global detection, attribution and prediction (Horyuji PAGODA): PAGODA address the uncertainties and inconsistencies in modelling the water cycle.
- Soil water - climate feedbacks in Europe in the 21st century: understanding the driving mechanisms of European heat waves (SWELTER-21)
- UK on PRACE: weather resolving Simulations of Climate for globAL Environmental risk. One of the world's top (petascale) projects in exploiting supercomputing for
climate science.(UPSCALE)
Coordination of research team:
- Dr. Alex Baker is the PRIMAVERA and British Petroleum collaboration scientist on high-impact weather and climate risk.
- Dr. Patrick McGuire is the University of Reading / NCAS-CMS Land Surface Processes Computational Scientist.
- Dr. Torsten Auerswald is the NCAS-core scientist on high-resolution global climate modelling.
Post-graduate student supervision in recent years:
- Pinelopi Loizou:a PhD study on the decadal variability of Tropical Cyclones.
- Bethan Harris: a PhD study on Thermodynamic constraints on tropical cyclone intensity and frequency.
- Noel Clancy: a PhD study on Investigating the impacts of air pollutants on vegetation, carbon dioxide and climate.
- Armenia Franco Diaz: a PhD study on Large-scale drivers of the seasonal to decadal variability in Mesoamerica's hydrological cycle.
- Joseph Taylor: a PhD study on The impact of extreme weather events on tropical island diversity.
- Gabriel Pereira: a PhD study on Lagrangian Coherent Structures and the global water cycle.
- Jane Delfino: a PhD study on The impact of typhoons in the Philippines.
Other interests
- Next-generation Global Climate Models and High-Performance Computing
- Quantification of risks posed by Tropical Cyclones (hurricanes, typhoons)
- Sustainability of biofuel production from the point of view of water resources