In 2006 I completed my PhD (funded by the NERC e-science program) in the Environmental Systems Science Centre (ESSC), which also hosts the Reading e-Science Centre. The aim of my project was to explore the predictability of extratropical cyclones using the feature identification and tracking program TRACK. My work involved investigating the impact that different observing systems have on the predictability of storms and comparing the ECMWF and NCEP ensemble prediction systems. The e-Science part of my project involved the development of a TRACK Internet Service which enables users to run the TRACK program from their web browser with remotely distributed data sets. The Internet service was used to compute storm tracks from the EPS data and helped with the large data handling requirements involved in the processing of the EPS data.

For more details about my PhD work please take a look at the following links:

• Observing Systems
• Ensemble Prediction
• e-Science

My thesis can be downloaded from Papers. If you have any questions please send me an email.