MSc Programme Director (Postgraduate Taught Programmes)

Interaction between convection and the large-scale environment
Tropical weather and climate (including the MJO, tropical cyclones, organised convection)

PI on UPFLO, a 5-year AFESP project that seeks to improve the representation of convective updrafts and anvil clouds in global km-scale models.
Co-I on FORWARDS, a WCSSP SE Asia project that seeks to evaluate high-resolution forecasts of high-impact weather in Southeast Asia.
Reading PI on CIRCULATES, a NERC project within the CloudSense programme that seeks to understand the effects of large-scale circulation and scale interactions on climate sensitivity due to cloud feedbacks.
Co-I on CLOUDY TIME, a NERC Turbulence project linked to the WesCon field campaign, seeking to improve understanding and modelling of turbulence related to cloud and convective processes.
Co-I on 'Morph', a NERC Turbulence project linked to the WesCon field campaign, seeking to improve understanding and modelling of convection in km-scale models in scale-aware numerical representations of convection.
Work following on from my previous NERC Fellowship project seeks to identify the processes that lead to convective self-aggregation (spontaneous clustering) in idealized high-resolution model simulations and to explore the extent to which they are important for convective organization in the real world.
Ongoing work analysing high-resolution simulations over large tropical domains following on from the now-finished NERC-funded Cascade project.

Chimene Daleu is a PDRA on the 'Morph' project investigating the representation of convection in km-scale numerical models, co-supervised with Prof Bob Plant.
Jake Bland is a PDRA on the CLOUDY TIME project investigating and evaluating processes important for convective instability, inhibition and organisation in km-scale models, co-supervised with Prof Sue Gray and Dr Thorwald Stein.
Mark Muetzelfeldt is a PDRA on the UPFLO project investigating processes important for representing convective updrafts and anvil clouds in global km-scale models, co-supervised with Dr Thorwald Stein.
Shammi Akhter has just finished a PhD on factors influencing the genesis and intensity of tropical cyclones in the Bay of Bengal, co-supervised with Dr Kevin Hodges and Dr Benoit Vanniere.
Juan Garcia Valencia is pursuing a PhD on sea surface temperature pattern influence on monsoon variability and change, co-supervised with Prof Andy Turner and Dr Lorenzo Tomassini (Met Office).
Deepti Dahiya is pursuing a PhD on cloud feedbacks on tropical climate at subseasonal scales, co-supervised with Dr Mark Muetzelfeldt, Dr Tobias Becker (ECMWF), Dr Peter Hill (ECMWF) and Dr Lorenzo Tomassini (Met Office).