Over the years my duties moved from research towards end-user application aspects of weather forecasting. First in modelling of air-pollution transport and expanding to broader aspects of numerical weather prediction with focus on turbulence models. I have been interested in modelling aspects of atmospheric physics from the very beginning of my research journey. I started as a PhD student doing research in turbulence modelling and, after completing my PhD in 2004, I stayed with the team as Research Associate. I have been with WFRT since the beginning. UBC Science Co-op Employer / Supervisor Recognition Award (2021).
I also enjoy travelling, gardening, and cooking. Outside of work, I love to spend time in the mountains, trail running and snowboarding. I also have expertise in weather instrumentation, contributing to many of our team’s field projects. These range from synoptic-scale research on the effects of the Tibetan Plateau on the global circulation, microscale snow research for the 2010 Vancouver winter olympics, Canada-wide wildfire smoke modelling, mesoscale numerical weather forecasts for Western Canada, to short-term forecasting and climatological analyses of heavy precipitation and flooding in the Rocky Mountains to name a few. I thrive on variety, and over the years I have worked on many different research projects spanning very different scales. Now, as Associate Director, I contribute to research and development strategies and help to keep the team operating, supervising our students’ projects and goals across the board. I moved here from England to do my PhD, with an MSc in Meteorology from the University of Reading. I have been with the WFRT since January 2006.
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I am also the author of two textbooks: “Practical Meteorology: An Algebra-based Survey of Atmospheric Science” which is free online, and “An Introduction to Boundary Layer Meteorology.”īut I am most proud of my research team. On alternating years I teach grad courses ATSC 507 Numerical Weather Prediction Meteorology, and ATSC 595D Atmospheric Dispersion Modeling. In the past I’ve taught ATSC 303 on weather instruments, and ATSC 212 on Computer Programming for Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences. Each year I teach ATSC 201 Meteorology of Storms, and I help teach EOSC 114 Natural Disasters.
I also led the development of ATSC 113 Weather for Sailing, Flying, and Snow Sports. Our newest course ATSC 313 is on Renewable Energy Meteorology. Our productivity can be seen in our roughly 120 journal publications and extensive participation in technical conferences.Īs a professor, I also have fun teaching courses at all levels. In addition to operational daily NWP, we do extensive research, including field work utilizing suites of specialized sensors including new instruments we have devised (rocketsonde buoy system, expendable smoke and weather sensors), theoretical work on atmospheric behavior and smoke dispersion, development of machine learning algorithms for big data analysis, and research on ensemble NWP.
This work is sponsored by a wide range of agencies and clients, including the Canadian federal government, provincial and territorial governments, regional and local governments, national and regional nonprofit organizations, energy industries, transportation industries, a wide range of consulting companies. We use both dedicated in house computer clusters and remote cloud computing for our forecasts.
Our 20-member team focuses on making high-resolution, real-time daily, operational ensemble numerical weather forecasts (NWP) for all of Canada, with emphasis on the complex terrain of western Canada. I am a Certified Consulting Meteorologist, and fellow of both the Canadian Meteorological & Oceanographic Society (CMOS) and the American Meteorological Society (AMS). I also have extensive experience in atmospheric boundary layers, turbulence, dispersion, and air quality. As director of the Weather Forecast Research Team (WFRT), my goal is to improve numerical weather prediction and apply it to the benefit of society.
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