RESEARCH

Regional Earth System Model

We are developing a high resolution model which couples the atmosphere, ocean, waves, land, biosphere and sea-ice on a regional scale. This model advances our understanding of extreme events and the regional budgets of water, carbon and aerosol. The model is suitable for regional climate change simulations and other sensitivity studies. The core atmospheric module is WRF and the core ocean module is ROMS.

Extreme Events

Extreme events have a profound impact on society. We are developing a new open source catastrophe model (OASIS) for the insurance sector. This model will allow transparent risk calculation of major climate hazards such as floods and windstorms in Europe and elsewhere. We are partnering in this development with Lloyds of London and the Lighthill Risk Network. In another project, with the EDFEnergy, we study how weather extremes affect the supply and demand of electricity. Both these projects are funded through the Climate KIC.

Urban Observations

We model and observe the impact of aerosol on surface radiation and the urban heat island by maintaining over 38 weather stations in London. This is one of the most extensive urban weather station networks in the world.

We are developing software to derive atmospheric properties form ground-based thermal imaging.

Funders: NERC, EPSRC, Big Lottery Fund, Environment Agency, UK Met Office, EU, BP, EIT, Industry

THE TEAM

Research Scientists

Dr Maria Broadbridge

 

Dr Paul Budgell

 

Dr Clea Denamiel

 

Dr Jon Gulley

 

Dr Raluca Radu

 

Dr Mamun Rashid

Dr Nathan Sparks

PhD Students

Matthias Schmid

Benjamin Wong

Dominique Cannavina

Helen Tamura-Wicks

Christina Newinger

Hannah Nissan

James Farley-Nicholls

Rachel White

Marilia Giannakopoulou

 

 

Past members of the group and their first destinations:

 

Nicola Clegg (British Library)

Victoria Williams (EPSRC Fellow in Transport)

Kirsten Mitchell (Insurance)

Adam Hadley (Hedge Fund)

Ashley Tomsett ( IT for KPMG)

Jo Syroka (World Bank)

Alessio Farhadi (BNP, Banking)

Mark McCarthy (UK Met Office)

Paul Wilson (Insurance)

Elizabeth Kennett (UK Met Office)

Nicola Patmore (UK Treasury)

Stephen Smith (Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology)

Matt Rigby (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

Catherine Reiffen (Science Museum, London)

Robert Seaman (UK Met Office)

Andrew Singleton (EU Joint Research Centre, ISPRA)