My research work
I am employed by the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO), and formerly worked for the Data Assimilation Research Centre (DARC), at the University of Reading as a computational scientist in the field of data assimilation.I currently work for much of my time at the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts on their Reanalysis project. Reanalysis combines past meteorological observations into complete, comprehensive and coherent atmospheric datasets using an up-to-date version of a weather forecast model.
In recent years I have worked on a variety of projects, which have included:
- The assimilation of ozone profiles from the EOS/MLS instrument into the ECMWF IFS weather forecast model, using 3D and 4Dvar techniques. This work is now being extended to include studies of stratospheric water vapoour assimilation.
- The insertion of observation processing code into the Met Office Unified Model to enable the assimilation of MIPAS ozone retrievals for research purposes.
- The development of GDEVL, the Global Data Evaluation and Visualisation Laboratory. GDEVL is a hardware/software solution to the problem of analysing and visualising vast amounts of four-dimensional geophysical data, for example that which may be generated by high-resolution weather forecast models.
- Globmodel - I am the webmaster for the project
- Work led by colleagues at Noveltis (Toulouse) studying the impact of novel satellite observations (along-track winds and projected observations from DIMIWO) to assess their impact on numerical weather prediction.
