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) at the Universities of Leeds, Durham and Exeter on projects investigating hydrodynamics and sedimentology of: river bifurcations, large river dynamics (Parana) and tidally influence rivers (Columbia). Following this, he remained at the University of Exeter to work on the ICOMEX project
Nadu state in India. In 2013 after completion of a PhD he moved to the United Kingdom, where he initially worked at the University of Leeds and Sussex on different projects. During this time, his main research interests covered climate variability, climate change and drought impact modelling over
IMPALA is a consortium of the Met Office and leading UK and African institutions including the African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development, the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, and the universities of Cape Town, Exeter, Leeds, Nairobi, Oxford, Reading and Yaounde. The IMPALA
COLLABORATIVE SCIENCE University of Leeds, University of Reading, University of Oxford, University of Exeter, University of Edinburgh,University of Bristol, Met Office Carbon cycle in the Amazon Modelling rainfall Impacts & disaster risk reduction CH 4 CO 2 CO 2 CO 2 CH 4 CO 2 CH 4 CH 4 CH 4 CO 2 CH
cuts. Three stages at the Leeds Festival were closed due to strong winds and tents were damaged, while the Creamfields music festival in Cheshire was also delayed. A number of flights at Heathrow were cancelled and the M48 Severn ridge in Gloucestershire was temporarily closed. Weather data
engineers who develop and implement a range of meteorological services across industry sectors, including Surface Transport and Energy. In January 2019 Claire started a part-time PhD with the University of Leeds, investigating machine learning methods to improve convective nowcasting and its applications
International team led by the National Centre for Atmospheric Science and University of Leeds have launched a new project to transform access to early weather warning systems for communities in South Africa, Zambia and Mozambique.
and fertiliser use. Professor Doug Parker, National Centre for Atmospheric Science and University of Leeds, stresses that no one approach will meet every need, and that building close relationships with users will be essential to find the best ways to communicate weather warnings. “The accuracy
prediction, ensuring that data infrastructure supports scalable and reproducible climate science. K-Scale simulations for AI training This work led by the University of Leeds generates kilometre-scale simulations over large domains to improve representation of fine-scale climate processes. Using
computer simulations give unprecedented levels of detail about how the UK’s climate will change over the 21st century, providing an essential tool to guide decision-making and boost resilience. Professor Lowe is also Chair in Interdisciplinary Climate Science at the Priestley Centre, University of Leeds.
of atmospheric convection at the University of Leeds, where she also received an undergraduate degree in Mathematics. Since joining the Met Office, Carol has been involved in the development and maintenance of an idealised version of the Unified Model. This is the main tool which Carol has used in her
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