Dynamical Processes

Current Members:

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Prof. Sir Brian J. Hoskins (Head of the group)

Research Interests:
Professor Hoskins is interested in increasing the understanding of weather systems and climate processes through theory, experimentation with an hierarchy of atmospheric models and diagnosis of analysed data from forecast centres.

email: b.j.hoskins-at-reading.ac.uk
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Dr. Maarten Ambaum (Lecturer)

Research Interests:
Large scale dynamics of the atmosphere, numerical methods.

email: m.h.p.ambaum-at-reading.ac.uk
web: www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~sws97mha
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Dr. John Methven (Reader)

Research Interests:
Large-scale dynamics and the changing chemical composition of the atmosphere.

email: J.Methven-at-reading.ac.uk
web: www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~swrmethn
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Dr. Kevin Hodges (Senior Research Fellow)

Research Interests:
Validation of GCM's, re-analyses, forecasts; objective identification of weather systems, feature tracking.

email: kih-at-mail.nerc-essc.ac.uk
web: www.nerc-essc.ac.uk/~kih
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Dr. Mike Blackburn (Senior Scientist in CGAM)

Research Interests:
Climate variability and extreme events; idealised test cases for atmospheric GCMs.

email: M.Blackburn-at-reading.ac.uk
web: www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~mike
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Dr. Paul Berrisford (Research Fellow)

Research Interests:
Southern Hemisphere Blocking, Hadley Circulation, Isentropic Modelling.

email: paulb-at-met.rdg.ac.uk
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Dr. Valerio Lucarini (Lecturer in Meteorology and Mathematics)

Research Interests:
Scientific activities covering a quite broad range of subjects in climate dynamics, applied mathematics, and statistical physics, with a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary activities.

email: v.lucarini-at-reading.ac.uk
web: www.met.reading.ac.uk/~sv901069
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Dr. Rosalind Cornforth (Research Fellow)

Research Interests:
Dynamical processes and predictability of West African weather systems. Active involvement with AMMA and Africa-THORPEX.

email: r.j.cornforth-at-reading.ac.uk
web:www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~sws06rjc
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Dr. Len Shaffrey (Research Fellow - NCAS Climate)

Research Interests:
Researching coupled ocean-atmosphere processes and developing high resolution climate models.

email: L.C.Shaffrey-at-reading.ac.uk
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Dr. Thomas Frame (Research Fellow)

Research Interests:
Mid-latitude dynamics, Rossby waves, Predictability

email: t.h.a.frame-at-reading.ac.uk
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Dr. Gui-Ying Yang (Research Fellow - NCAS Climate)

Research Interests:
Convectively coupled equatorial waves in observational data and numerical models.

email: swsyangg-at-met.rdg.ac.uk
web: www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~swsyangg
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Dr. David Brayshaw (Research Fellow)

Research Interests:
Large-scale atmospheric circulation, midlatitude storm tracks, Mediterranean climate, the impacts of climate variability on renewable energy.

email: d.j.brayshaw-at-reading.ac.uk
web: www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~sws06djb
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Dr. Tim Woollings (NERC Postdoctoral Fellow)

Research Interests:
Large-scale midlatitude dynamics.

email: t.j.woollings-at-rdg.ac.uk
web: www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~swr01tjw
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Giacomo Masato (PhD Student)

Research Interests:
Atmospheric blocking dynamics and predictability.

email: g.masato-at-rdg.ac.uk
web: www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~swr07gm



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