About Alasdair Skea

Alasdair works to forecast road surface temperatures.

Areas of expertise

• Road Surface Temperature modelling.
• FORTRAN Programming.
• New product development.
• Site-Specific forecasting techniques.

Publications by Alasdair Skea 

Current activities

Alasdair is the code manager of the Met Office Road Surface Temperature model (MORST) which provides data for the OpenRoad and OpenRunway products.

He is responsible for the scientific development of the model, and for the maintenance and development of the operational system which delivers the model forecasts to Met Office forecasters and products. Alasdair also develops site-specific forecast products by applying post-processing techniques to Numerical Weather Prediction model forecasts from various resolution configurations of the Unified Model and the UKPP system.

As part of his role to develop the operational system, Alasdair works on projects to deliver the IT architecture that supports site-specific forecast product creation.

Career background

Alasdair has been a member of the Post-Processing group since it was formed in 2007. He has been working on site-specific forecasting techniques since joining the Met Office in February 2002, with a short interlude developing a web interfaces for the NAME model. Alasdair graduated with a BSc in Physics from the  Durham University in 2001, and has also gained an MSc in Weather, Climate and Numerical Modelling from the  University of Reading whilst employed by the Met Office.