Robin Hogan
Senior Scientist, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Professor of Atmospheric Physics, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading

News

2020

• November 2020: The ecRad atmospheric radiation scheme and SPARTACUS-Surface urban and vegetation radiation scheme have both been released under an open-source license.

2019

• October 2019: I have initiated the Correlated K-Distribution Model Intercomparison Project (CKDMIP), whose purpose is to evaluate and improve the gas-optics models for weather and climate models, and the tools we use to generate them.
• May 2019: My SPARTACUS-Urban paper has been accepted, describing how the SPARTACUS approach may be used to compute 3D radiative transfer in urban canopies. It makes use of another recent paper introducing a simple statistical model that accurately describes building layout in cities.

Research

My research concerns radiative transfer, clouds and remote sensing with radar and lidar. Since April 2014 my primary affiliation is ECMWF, where I have responsibility for the radiation scheme. My past and present University of Reading activities are described on the Clouds Group web page. I have research links with colleages in the Radar Group and the Radiation Group.

• My ECMWF homepage
• The Clouds Group
• Publications
• Presentations
• Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
• Overview of research interests

Research profiles:

• Google Scholar
• ResearcherID
• ORCHID

Some freely available research codes I have written:

• Offline version of ECMWF radiation scheme "ecRad"
• Adept automatic differentiation library
• 3D fractal cirrus model
• Radar and lidar multiple scattering model
• Variational polarimetric retrieval of rain and hail
• C and Matlab implementation of the Self-Similar Rayleigh-Gans Approximation
• Fortran and Matlab implementations of the SPARTACUS 3D radiation algorithm for urban areas and vegetation

Teaching resources

• Shallow water model in matlab
• Material for school visits: weather forecasting and thunderstorms
• Resources for Weather and Climate Discussion
• Animations demonstrating radar and radiative transfer phenomena using a 2D Maxwell solver
• How to combine errors (PDF)

Contact details

Primary affiliation

• Address European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Shinfield Park, Reading RG2 9AX, UK.
  
• Tel +44 (0)118 9499733
• Email r.j.hogan at ecmwf.int

Secondary affiliation

• Address Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Earley Gate, PO Box 243, Reading RG6 6BX, UK.
  
• Email r.j.hogan at reading.ac.uk

I am normally at the University on Thursday afternoons.

Not work

A desktop ammusement I wrote for Unix/Linux, now included in several Linux distributions.	A review of Reading Curry Houses in the style of an enduring sci-fi series.