https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1001-9226

Research Interests:

• Convective-scale and hectometric Numerical Weather Prediction.
• Convection and turbulence in Grey-Zone(s).
• Mesoscale structure of extra-tropical cyclones.
• Urban surface exchange.

Research Projects:

• Improving model representation of turbulent atmospheric processes - the Parachute Project.
  • CoI of Hi-Fi : A novel turbulence closure for high-fidelity numerical weather prediction.
  • CoI of Putting the morph into CoMorph : Adapting convection parametrisation for the hard grey zone.
• Understanding and Representing Atmospheric Convection across Scales - the ParaCon project.
  • PI of the Circle-A Project.
  • CoI of the Paracon Phase-2 Project.
• Sting Jets in severe Northern European windstorms.
• Stochastic Parametrization of convection (PhD project at University of Surrey).
• Flooding from Intense Rainfall: CoI on FRANC Project Exploiting new observations and data assimilation techniques for improved forecasting of convective precipitation. (Website yet to be created.
• Urban surface exchange.

Postdoctoral & graduate student supervision

• Dan Shipley. Post-doctoral research assistant working on the Putting the morph into CoMorph project looking for ways to merge a 3D turbulence scheme (3DTE) with the CoMorph convection scheme in the convection gray-zone.
• Yuqi Bai. Post-doctoral research assistant working on the HiFi project using dynamic methods within a turbulence gray-zone parametrization (3DTE).
• Vibha Selvaratnam . A second-year PhD student (Started October 2022) Working on Utilising higher resolution NWP data to drive atmospheric dispersion models.
• Isabelle Gorst. A second-year PhD student (Started October 2022) Working on Horizontal Convective Rolls in the boundary-layer.

Past postdoctoral & graduate student supervision

• Torsten Auerswald. Post-doctoral research assistant worked on the Circle-A project within ParaCon.
• Todd Jones. Post-doctoral research assistant worked on the Circle-A project within ParaCon.
• Tom Webb. Post-doctoral research assistant worked on the Circle-A project within ParaCon.
• David Flack. Post-doctoral research assistant worked on Flooding from Intense Rainfall.
• Dr Neil Hart Post-doctoral research assistant worked on predictability of Sting jets in extra-tropical cyclones. I co-supervised with Prof. Sue Gray.
• Alanna Power. PhD student (Started October 2020) Worked on improving convective storm simulations through scale-adaptive and flow-adaptive sub-grid methods.
• Dan Shipley. PhD student (Started October 2017) worked on conditional sampling representations in models of convection as part of ParaCon.
• Liam Till. PhD student (Started October 2017) worked on measuring updraughts in convective clouds using Doppler radar.
• Johnathan Chui. PhD student (started January 2015) worked on "Modelling Convection in the Grey Zone". Passed July 2021
• Mark Muetzelfeldt. PhD student (Started October 2015) worked on "Development of scale awareness in the representation of convective cloud systems". Passed April 2020.
• Juwon Kim. PhD student (started October 2014) worked on aerosol/cloud interactions. Passed April 2019.
• Matthew Feist. PhD student (started October 2014) worked on the radar measurement of turbulence in convective clouds. Passed March 2019 (ish)
• Ambrogio Volonte. PhD student (started May 2014) worked on the dynamics of sting jets. Passed May 2018.
• Andrew Oxley. PhD student at the University of Surrey worked on simple models of moist convection for data assmilation. Passed December 2017.
• Duick Young. PhD student (started January 2014) worked on representation of vegetation in urban surface exchange models.
• Laura Baker. PhD student , worked on idealised modelling of Sting Jets. (Passed 2011)
• Curtis Wood. PhD student, worked on meteorological effects on insect layering. (Passed 2007).
• Peter Lean. PhD student, worked on predictability of convective storms. Passed 2006.
• James Done. PhD student finished 2003. Equilibrium in convection.
• Richard Forbes PhD student 1998-2001. Ice sublimation in extratropical cyclones.

Other interests

• General interest in mesoscale organisation.
• Philosophy of Modelling.