Areas of expertise

Malcolm's areas of expertise include:

• Costing and scheduling work
• UK climate
• Analysing data
• Wind climatology
• Agricultural meteorology

Publications by Malcolm Lee

Current activities

• Managing the workload of six scientific and data consultants.
• Preparing bids and cost estimates along with delivery times.
• Strategic planning of skills, resources and tools needed to meet customer requirements.
• Financial budget and forecast input to meet corporate needs.
• Reviewing reports written by staff prior to dispatching to customers.
• Leading in the delivery of products to the wind energy market, their verification, and bringing new developments into everyday use.
• Managing our scientific consultancy offerings to the hydrology market.

Career background

• Using radar and raingauge rainfall in the production of optimum areal rainfall estimates
• Development of the Met Office soil moisture and evaporation service - MORECS
• Dispersion modelling and experiments in connection with pollution incidents and Foot and Mouth disease
• Crop growth in relation to slope, aspect and accumulated temperature
• Forecast services tailored for the agricultural and horticultural community
• Developing and routinely delivering gridded UK weather summaries, including UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP) data
• Project management process development
• Financial budgeting and forecasting
• Using model data to produce wind climatologies for the renewable energy industry