Atmospheric Science

Our research involves exploiting new observational datasets and combining with numerical models of the atmosphere to improve our understanding of the global energy and water cycles of our planet and their role in weather forecasts and climate change. The work is organised into several projects, described briefly below, which contribute to four research foci:

Clouds, aerosol and the Earth‘s Radiation Budget
Tropical and extratropical weather systems
Variability and trends in the global water cycle
Evaluation of weather and climate prediction models

Researchers

Dr. Richard Allan	NERC Advanced Fellow
Miss Claire Barber	PhD Student
Prof. Lennart Bengtsson	Senior Research Fellow
Mr Adrian Champion	PhD Student
Dr. Lizzie Froude	Research Fellow
Dr. Kevin Hodges	Senior Research Fellow
Dr. Kevin Pearson	Research Fellow
Mr. Tom Philp	PhD Student
Dr. Jeff Settle	Senior Research Fellow
Mrs Helen Whitall	MPhil Student
Dr. Margaret Woodage	Research Fellow
Dr. Matthias Zahn	PREPARE Post-doctoral Researcher

Past Members

Dr. Nazim Ali Bharmal	(Durham)
Dr. Ruth Comer	(Met Office)
Dr. Joanna Futyan	(Career Break)
Dr. Peter Henderson	(CIRES/NOAA)
Dr. Gary Robinson	(Meteorology)
Prof. Anthony Slingo

Projects

Please use the navigation at the left of the screen to read about the current work of the ESSC Atmopsheric Science Research Group. Through these projects, we contribute to the Climate and the High Impact Weather themes of the National Centre for Earth Observation, helping us to better monitor, understand and predict global environmental changes.