Areas of expertise:

• Geostatistics.

• Dispersion Modelling.

• Inversion Modelling.

Current activities

 Alan has been developing a scheme to merge rain-rate data from both the radar and rain gauge networks to produce a best possible estimate of rainfall in the UK.

Career background

Alan joined the Met Office in 2011 after completing a PhD at the University of Leicester "Investigating land-air carbon fluxes using a Lagrangian model and satellite retrieved carbon dioxide".