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Another Recent Highlight: Papers for RADAGAST Special Section in JGR-Atmospheres: see below

I am currently Professor of Environmental Science and Deputy Director at ESSC, which I joined in March 2002.

Before then, I was Head of Model Parametrizations at the Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research.

Current research projects

The SINERGEE project (click on the links to see the latest comparisons)

This project is led by CGAM and is developing a high resolution version of the new Hadley Centre Global Environmental Model (HadGEM).

RADAGAST

In the RADAGAST project, the US Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program deployed the ARM Mobile Facility at Niamey in Niger (13.5ºN 2ºE), during the field phases of the African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA) and related experiments in 2006. This was a unique opportunity to bring together ARM, AMMA and GERB to tackle some outstanding problems in atmospheric radiation science.

Photographs from my trip to Niamey in December 2005 to see the ARM sites Selected photos
Photographs from my trip to Niamey in January 2006 to take part in DABEX Selected photos

Published papers:

BAMS paper. Miller and Slingo (2007)
GRL paper. Slingo et al. (2006)

Papers submitted to the Special Section of JGR-Atmospheres on results from RADAGAST:

Overview of observations from the RADAGAST experiment in Niamey, Niger. Part 1: Meteorology and thermodynamic variables. Slingo et al. (2008a)
Overview of observations from the RADAGAST experiment in Niamey, Niger. Part 2: Radiative fluxes and divergences. Slingo et al. (2008b)
Simulation of surface and top of atmosphere thermal fluxes and radiances from the RADAGAST experiment. Bharmal et al. (2008)
Bounding the uncertainty of flux divergence calculations in RADAGAST. Settle et al. (2008)
Ground-based infrared retrievals of optical depth, effective radius, and composition of airborne mineral dust above the Sahel. Turner (2008)
Surface shortwave aerosol radiative effect during the ARM Mobile Facility deployment in Niamey, Niger. McFarlane et al. (2008)
Cloud, thermodynamic and precipitation observations in West Africa during 2006. Kollias et al. (2008)
Seasonal contrasts in the surface energy balance of the Sahel. Miller et al. (2008)

New poster; June 2008 Key results from the RADAGAST project

Cascade

This is an exciting and challenging new project to perform cloud system resolving simulations of the tropical atmosphere.Vacancy at ESSC

Personal information

Curriculum vitae on two pages

List of publications

Copies of papers (the reference number is from the list of publications above):

Evaluation of the Met Office global forecast model using Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) data [63]

The ARM Mobile Facility and its first international deplpoyment: measuring radiative flux divergence in West Africa [62]

Observations of the diurnal cycle of outgoing longwave radiation from the Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget instrument [61]

Observations of the impact of a major Saharan dust storm on the atmospheric radiation balance [60]

Exploitation of Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget data using simulations from a numerical weather prediction model: Methodology and data validation [58]

Can desert dust explain the outgoing longwave radiation anomaly over the Sahara during July 2003? [57]

The Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) project [56]

Simulation of the Earth's radiation budget by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts 40-year reanalysis (ERA40) [54]

Slingo, Hodges and Robinson (2004) [53] (pdf)

Ringer, Edwards and Slingo (2003) [51]

Allan and Slingo (2002) [50]

Allan, Slingo and Ringer (2002) [48]

Allan, Slingo and Ramaswamy (2002) [47]

Pope, Pamment, Jackson and Slingo (2001) [44]

Recent presentations

Lectures at the NCAS Summer School in Atmospheric Measurement held on the island of Arran, September 2007

Atmospheric radiation

Remote sensing from satellites

Introduction to climate modelling

Lecture at the first UJCC-NCAS Summer School on climate modelling, Cambridge, September 2007

Elements of atmospheric physics

There are movies in some of these presentations which may won't run. Please get in touch with me if you need them.

Copies of my talk at the Royal Meteorological Society meeting, Reading, Wednesday 25 April 2007

Powerpoint

Acrobat

Invited presentation at the 2006 SORCE Science Team meeting, San Juan Islands, Washington State

Observations of the Earth's radiation budget from geostationary orbit and from the surface

Halley (1686)

"I could think of no better way to design the course of the Winds on the Mapp, than by drawing rows of stroaks in the same line that a Ship would move going alwaies before it; the sharp end of each little stroak pointing out that part of the Horizon, from whence the Wind continually comes; and where there are Monsoons the rows of the stroaks run alternately backwards and forwards, by which means they are thicker there than elsewhere"

Extra-curricular stuff

Met Office Scientific Officers Course 1974-75

Glyndebourne 2004

Photographs from my 2002 trek to Everest base camp. There are a lot more available behind this home page that I haven't explicitly linked to. Contact me if you are interested in seeing them. Selected photos

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Last updated: 1 August 2008