Responsibilities:

NCEO Divisional Director of Data Assimilation and NCEO Institutional Lead

Research Interests:

• Mathematical aspects of data assimilation
• Data assimilation for applications in high impact weather and flooding
• Observation error correlations in data assimilation
• Using crowdsourced data for quantitative applications

Research Projects:

• HiSCORE: High resolution data assimilation with Spatially and temporally Correlated ObseRvation Errors (Part of the Advancing the Frontiers of Earth System Predition (AFESP) programme)
• HydroJULES Next generation land-surface and hydrological predictions
• CANARI: Climate Change in the Arctic and North Atlantic Region and Impacts on the UK
• NCEO Long term single-centre science
• EOCIS: Earth Observation Climate Information Service
• EA/DEFRA FCRIP project: A FAIR approach to community flood risk

Postdoctoral & graduate student supervision

• Zak Bell is a PhD student working on multiscale filtering of urban observations.
• Laura Mansfield is a PhD student working on model reduction using emulation for understanding and predicting climate responses to different regional emission forcings
• Gywneth Matthews is a PhD student working on data assimilation for flood model calibration.
• Guannan Hu is a PDRA on the DARE project
• Remy Vandaele is a PDRA on the DARE project

Other interests

• World Meteorological Organization Data Assimilation and Observing Systems Working Group