Research students

• Miranti Hastuti. In progress, Ensemble-Based Assimilation of Satellite All-Sky Radiances for Convective-Permitting NWP in Indonesia
  
• Dony Christianto. In progress. Interactions Between Regional and Local Circulations in the Maritime Continent
  
• Kaustubh Mittal. In progress. Discovering the Mechanisms Behind Forecast Busts
  (CASE student)
• Patience Mulovhedzi. In progress. Representation of convection in the CKEM model
  
• Alanna Power. Thesis accepted pending corrections. Improving convective storm simulations through scale-adaptive and flow-adaptive sub-grid methods
  
• Lewis Blunn. Completed 2021. Developing high-resolution NWP for local-scale air quality prediction over cities
  (CASE student. Winner of poster prize at the 2018 NCAS staff conference.)
• Jonathan Chui. Completed 2021. Grey-zone convective modelling
• Michael Johnston. Completed 2020. Island convection and interactions with larger scales
• Mark Muetzelfeldt. Completed 2020. Scale dependence of convective transports
  (CASE student. Winner of 2017 departmental poster prize.)
• Jan Kamieniecki. Completed 2018. Fundamental properties of tropical circulations: Thermodynamic analysis of coupled column models
• David Flack. Completed 2017. Convective-scale predictability
  (Winner of 2015 Quo Vadis prize. Weather research division nominee for 2016 University PhD researcher of the year)
• Seonaid Dey. Completed 2016. New tools for the evaluation of convective-scale ensemble systems
  (CASE student. Winner of 2014 departmental PhD poster prize, 2015 MPE centre for doctoral training poster prize and 2015 NWP oral presentation prize at the joint 27th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting and 23rd Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction.)
• David McNamara. Completed 2016. Moisture cycle in mid-latitude cyclones
• Robert Warren. Completed 2014. Anchoring of convective storms
  (CASE student)
• Chimene Daleu. Completed 2013. Interactions between tropical convection and large-scale dynamics
  (Science faculty nominee for 2013 University PhD researcher of the year award)
• Michael Whitall. Completed 2012. Stochastic parameterizations
  (CASE student)
• Ian Boutle. Completed 2010. Boundary layer processes in mid-latitude cyclones
  (CASE student)
• Laura Davies. Completed 2008. Non-equilibrium convection
  (CASE student)

PhD examiner

• Cristian Valer Vraciu. 2024. Towards a unified theoretical framework of atmospheric convection parameterization
• Jake Bland. 2024. Extratropical Lowermost Stratospheric Biases: Characteristics, Causes and Consequences
• Dan Shipley. 2021. The multi-fluid approach to modelling turbulent convection
• Megan Bickle (Leeds). 2021. The role of wind shear in organised deep moist convection in the West African Monsoon
• Alejandro Hermoso. (Balearic Islands) 2021. Advancements in mesoscale ensemble prediction strategies: Application to Mediterranean high-impact weather.
• John Kealy (Exeter). 2020. Improving turbulence representation in high-resolution numerical weather prediction
• Carlo Cafaro. 2019. Information gain that convective-scale models bring to probabilistic weather forecasts
• Maxime Colin (Sorbonne/UNSW). 2019. Identifying the sources of convective memory in cloud-resolving simulations
• Rhiannon Davies (UEA) 2016. Modelling and observations of the atmospheric boundary layer of the Arctic marginal ice zone
• Tom Webb. 2015. High-resolution atmospheric modelling of a tropical island for space geodesy
• Aidan Brocklehurst. 2015. The effect of the urban environment on the wind-driven infiltration of buildings
• Claudio Sanchez (Exeter). 2015. Seamless evaluation of stochastic physics parametrization
• Michael Glinton. 2014. The role of convective symmetric instability in numerical weather prediction
• Salvatore Pascale. 2011. Maximum entropy production as a constraint on the climate system
• Alison Fowler. 2010. The assimilation of misplaced boundary layer features
• Anil Padhra. 2010. Estimating the sensitivity of urban surface drag to building morphology
• Victoria Sinclair. 2009. Boundary-layer ventilation by baroclinic life cycles

Thesis committees

• Juan-Garcia Valencia. In progress. Sea surface temperature pattern influence on monsoon variability and change in global kilometre-scale simulations (Chair)
• Hette Houtman. In progress. Trapped lee waves as a source of low-level drag on the atmosphere
• Beth Saunders. 2024. Urban surface-atmosphere exchanges: scintillometry observations and NWP evaluation
• Jake Bland. 2024. The control of cloud and moisture on extratropical cloud evolution (Chair)
• Dan Shipley. 2021. Multi-fluid modelling of idealised buoyant convection (Chair)
• William McIntryre. 2020. Mathematical modelling of atmospheric convection for better regional climate change prediction (Chair)
• Carlo Cafaro. 2019. Information gain that convective-scale models bring to probabilistic weather forecasts
• Matthew Feist. 2018. What controls the structure of UK thunderstorms?
• Ambrogio Volonte. 2018. Dynamics of sting jets and their relation to larger-scale drivers. (Chair)
• Tom Webb. 2015. Effective atmospheric modelling for space-based geodesy. (Chair)
• Aidan Brocklehurst. 2015. The effect of the urban environment on the wind-driven infiltration of buildings. (Chair)
• Johannes de Leeuw. 2014. On the origin of summer precipitation variability in Western Europe. (Chair)
• Michael Glinton. 2014. The role of convective symmetric instability in numerical weather prediction (Chair)
• Dan Peake. 2012. Coastal ventilation of pollution
• Salvatore Pascale. 2011. Maximum entropy production as a constraint on the climate system (Chair)
• Alison Fowler. 2010. The assimilation of misplaced boundary layer features
• Anil Padhra. 2010. Atmospheric response to heterogeneous urban surfaces (Chair)
• Gillian Baxter. 2009. Data assimilation for nested models (Chair)
• Victoria Sinclair. 2009. Pollutant ventilation from the boundary layer
• Yonghui Lei. 2008. Decadal variability in Chinese summer rainfall
• Jon Shonk. 2008. Representing cloud inhomogeneity in a radiation scheme
• Alistair Hind. 2008. Storm track variability
• Peter Lean. 2006. Predictability of convective storms