RESEARCH
Extreme Events-Tropical Cyclones
Extreme events have a profound impact on society. We have developed a novel weather generator: IMAGE. This is part of an open source catastrophe
model project (OASIS) for the insurance sector and others.
We are using fully coupled ocean-atmosphere- wave models (WRF_ROMS_SWAN) to understand the physical processes of tropical cyclones.
A stochastic model of West Pacific land falling cyclones for risk assessment has been developed. In partnership with the UK Met Office,
2nd Institute of Ocean Oceanography in Hangzhou, the Hong Kong Observatory and City University of Hong Kong we are studying
typhoons and producing seasonal forecasts of West Pacific tropical cyclones.
Presentation
on Tropical Cyclones
Regional Climate Models
We are developing a high resolution model which couples the atmosphere, ocean, waves, land, river input and sea-ice on a regional scale.
This model advances our understanding of wind energy and extreme events. The model is suitable for regional climate change
simulations and other ocean-atmosphere-land sensitivity studies.
The core atmospheric module is WRF and the core ocean module is ROMS. Examples of our different models can be found here:
Presentation
on Regional Models
Funders: NERC, EPSRC, UK Met Office, EU, Industry
THE TEAM
Research Scientists
Dr Paul Budgell
Dr Nathan Sparks
Dr Shuai Wang
PhD Students
Mohan Smith
Robbie Parks
Thomas Leahy
Cesar Quilodran Casas
Yi Li
Luke Phillipson
Past members of the group and their destinations:
Nicola Clegg (Electricity North West, Manchester)
Victoria Williams (EPSRC Fellow in Transport, London)
Kirsten Mitchell-Wallace (SCOR, Insurance, Zurich, Switzerland)
Adam Hadley (Hedge Fund, London)
Ashley Tomsett (Deloitte, Nottingham)
Jo Syroka (African Risk Capacity, South Africa)
Alessio Farhadi (BNP, Banking, London)
Mark McCarthy (UK Met Office, Exeter)
Paul Wilson (Risk Management Solutions, Insurance, London)
Elizabeth Kendon
(Kennett) (UK Met Office, Exeter)
Nicola Ranger (Patmore) (Department for International Development, London)
Stephen Smith (Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, London)
Matt Rigby (University of Bristol)
Catherine Reiffen (
Robert Seaman (UK Met Office, Exeter)
Andrew Singleton (Norwegian Met Office, Oslo, Norway)
Marilia Giannakopoulou (EDF Energy, London)
Clea Denamiel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
James Farley-Nichols (Weather Analyst, City Financial, London)
Bronwyn Cahill (Consulting, Berlin, Germany)
Rachel White (University of Washington, USA)
Christina Newinger (Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany)
Raluca Radu (ECMWF, Reading)
Matthias Schmid (Willis Re, London)
Benjamin Wong (DSO
National Laboratories, Singapore)
Hannah Nissan
(Columbia University, New York, USA)
Maria Broadbridge (University of Reading)
Sam Phibbs (Willis Re, London)
Helen Tamura-Wicks
(School of Public Health, Imperial College)
Nicolas Bruneau (National Centre of Oceanography, Liverpool)
Stephen Hardwick (Rediscovery.io, Data Science start-up)
Carlo Corsaro (Rediscovery.io, Data Science start-up)
Arjav Trivedi (Data Science
consultant)