A moisture droplet calculating a budget.
Image courtesy of Richard Keane.
The meetings take place in a hybrid format, both on Microsoft Teams and in person, usually in 11.07. The meetings will take place on Tuesdays at 10am-11am. This is subject to change and we will email in advance if any changes are made!
Some weeks may have two speakers, in which case each person has approximately 25 minutes of discussion-based presenting time. Others have one speaker who will be expected to give a 45-minute seminar with 10 minutes for questions. (This is all quite flexible!) Email Fran Morris, Ben Maybee or Jonathan Coney if you would like to speak on a week when you are not scheduled to do so if there is an empty slot. You can speak more than once.
If you are unable to present at your scheduled time please arrange to swap with somebody and let us know the change once it is agreed.
If possible, short (25-min) presentations should facilitate discussion in the group - these shouldn't necessarily be polished powerpoints that you might present at an Internal Seminar, for example. Plots, pdfs, word documents etc are fine. If you don't have new research to present consider reviewing an interesting paper, or discussing a topic more generally, or going more in-depth about some methodology or data that you or others in the group use in their research.
Of course, if you do want to just practice an upcoming presentation, or give a full-length in-depth seminar, and get some feedback in a friendly environment - dynamics meetings are great for this too! We're just trying to avoid making every session a seminar, and allow for as much time for engagement and discussion as possible.
Meetings are held in Microsoft Teams and in person, usually in 11.07. A standing online meeting invitation will be sent out to the entire Dynamics mailing list. If you're missing an invite, contact Ben or Jonathan. In the 'Files' section you'll also find some examples of previous presentations - feel free to browse those for inspiration or to find out about some the great topics people have presented on in meetings beforehand.
Stuck for an idea? Here are some in-demand topics.
The University's IT department have retired the Mailman mailing list service in favour of a Microsoft product. This has resulted in the removal of some people who are not a part of the university from our mailing list. This isn't great for external people who (for example) collaborate with members of the group or supervise PhD students. The wisdom behind this decision remains unknown to us and there was very little we could do about it. If you have previously attended our meetings and have been removed from our list, and would like to get re-added, please contact us on the above email addresses and we'll see what we can do. Thanks.
Date | Presenter 1 | Topic | Presenter 2 | Topic |
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03/10/2023 | Convection Meeting 11am-12pm | WCO3/Nice debrief | ||
10/10/2023 | Introductory meeting | |||
17/10/2023 | Open Discussion | Dynamics public web pages | John Marsham | k-scale update |
24/10/2023 | Ashar Aslam | Eddies | Joey Smith | Nowcasting |
31/10/2023 | Amethyst | Vorticity Asymmetries Leading to an Eyewall Break in a Landfalling Tropical Cyclone | Jonathan | Lee waves in a future climate |
07/11/2023 | Ben M and John M | Rwanda Debrief | Special guest James Warner from the Met Office | TBC |
14/11/2023 | Steef | Lagrangian mixing | ||
21/11/2023 | Richard Keane | IMERG | Lawrence | TBC |
28/11/2023 | Humphrey Lean | 12:45-13:45 | TBC | |
05/12/2023 | Vacant | TBC | TBC | TBC |
12/12/2023 | xmas-travaganza | TBC | ||
16/01/2024 | NCAS engagement session! | Fairbairn | ||
23/01/2024 | Jack L | Model evaluation of tropical cyclone forecasts? | Michael | TBC |
30/01/2024 | Thermodynamics extravaganza: the meaning of entropy! | |||
06/02/2024 | Greg | TBC | Kilian | TBC |
13/02/2024 | James B | TBC | Domantas | TBC |
20/02/2024 | Dec | Science | ||
27/02/2024 | Simon | TTT-T + science | Kasia | TBC |
Date | Presenter 1 | Topic | Presenter 2 | Topic |
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25/10/2022 | Introductory meeting | |||
01/11/2022 | Fran Morris | Atmospheric Science Words I Did Not Understand 3 Years Ago | Jonathan Coney | Something very fun |
08/11/2022 | Amethyst Johnson | Simon Peatman | ||
15/11/2022 | Richard Keane and staff | Discussing Richard's CEMAC time and strategy | ||
16/11/2022 | Ruth Geen external seminar and 1:1 meetings | |||
22/11/2022 | Leo Saffin | Steef Boeing | ||
29/11/2022 | Joseph Smith | Alok Pandey | ||
06/12/2022 | End-of-term Dynamics Xmas-stravaganza | |||
13/12/2022 | Christmas Break | |||
20/12/2022 | ||||
27/12/2022 | ||||
03/01/2023 | ||||
10/01/2023 | ||||
17/01/2023 | ||||
24/01/2023 | Summary from AGU by Leo, who I am sure attended every presentation | |||
31/01/2023 | Ben Maybee | Everyone loves the MJO | Ashar Aslam | The summary of Ashar's Dynamical Past, Present, and Future |
07/02/2023 | Richard Keane | It's GLOSEA5 Time | ||
14/02/2023 | Meeting cancelled | |||
21/02/2023 | Declan Finney | Entropy and Potential temperature | ||
28/02/2023 | Special Guest James Warner | From The Met Office TM | ||
07/03/2023 | Zhiqiang Cui | |||
14/03/2023 | Marian Osei | |||
21/03/2023 | Cathryn Birch | Drivers of humid heat extremes in the tropics | ||
28/03/2023 | Michael Baidu | DOUBLE BILL: 1. The Evolution of African Monsoons and its Impacts on Precipitation Seasonality in the Cenozoic and future Climate Change and 2. Prediction of Rainfall Response to the 21st-century Climate Change in Ghana using Machine Learning Empirical Statistical Downscaling | ||
04/04/2023 | Easter / EGU break | |||
11/04/2023 | ||||
18/04/2023 | ||||
25/04/2023 | ||||
01/05/2023 | NOWCASTING SPECIAL! Double meeting 10am-12pm featuring all of our dynamics nowcasting faves (tbc) | |||
23/05/2023 | EGU Roundup from Ashar and Ben |
Date | Presenter 1 | Topic | Presenter 2 | Topic |
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14/10/2021 | Introductory meeting | |||
21/10/2021 | Dynamics lunch | |||
28/10/2021 | Michael Baidu | Evaluation of the Met Office 4.4km Tropical Africa Model (TAM) | ||
04/11/2021 | Dynamics LIVE | Interview with Met Office scientists: James Warner, Andy Hartley, and Caroline Bain discuss model evaluation | Leo Saffin | Paper discussion: Narenpitak et al. (2021) - "From Sugar to Flowers: A Transition of Shallow Cumulus Organization During ATOMIC" |
11/11/2021 | Amethyst Johnson | Diagnosing and reducing tropical cyclone noise in the MetUM | ||
18/11/2021 | Steef Boeing | Some Python modules that could be useful (sometimes) | Sarah Chapman | Impact of climate change on heat related infant (under 5s) mortality in Africa |
25/11/2021 | Beth Woodhams | ‘Characteristics of convective precipitation over tropical Africa in storm-resolving global simulations’ by Tobias Becker, Peter Bechtold and Irina Sandu. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4185 | Zhiqiang Cui | Detrainment layer observed during the EUREC4A field campaign |
02/12/2021 | Simon Peatman | Python surprises! | ||
09/12/2021 | Doug Parker | Improving weather prediction for Africa: a call to arms | ||
16/12/2021 | End-of-term Xmas Dynamics Extravaganza |
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23/12/2021 | Christmas Break | |||
30/12/2021 | ||||
06/01/2022 | ||||
13/01/2022 | ||||
20/01/2022 | meeting cancelled | |||
27/01/2022 | Ben Pickering | A machine learning algorithm that estimates African rainfall better* than EUMETSAT | ||
03/02/2022 | Richard Keane | UM biases in Indian monsoon precipitation | Ben Pickering pt ii | buzz buzz here come the weather drone swarms |
10/02/2022 | Will Torgerson | Intensity fluctuations during rapid intensification of tropical cyclones and links to eyewall replacement cycles | ||
17/02/2022 | meeting cancelled | |||
24/02/2022 | Ben Maybee | MJO impact on East African rainfall | ||
03/03/2022 | Jacob Perez | An intro to eddy-driven jets, and also, some research about the jet stream | ||
10/03/2022 | Neil Ward (visiting) | The strong connection of midlatitude troughs to weather and climate patterns across North Africa | ||
17/03/2022 | Erik Kolstad (visiting) | Climate services and prediction in East Africa | ||
24/03/2022 | Jonathan Coney | Automatic detection and characterisation of gravity waves | ||
31/03/2022 | meeting cancelled | |||
07/04/2022 | Matthias Fisher (visiting) | Introduction | ||
08/04/2022 | Dynamics Easter EGGstravaganza Quiz | Surprise Friday edition at 3pm! | ||
14/04/2022 | Easter Break | |||
21/04/2022 | ||||
27/04/2022 | Bill Boos (visiting, remote) | Jet stream interactions with tropical circulations: the case of the North American monsoon | Dynamics Extraordinary meeting - Wednesday 4pm (online) | |
05/05/2022 | Post-Easter Also-Break | |||
12/05/2022 | ||||
19/05/2022 | ||||
26/05/2022 | EGU/AMS Tropical/Africa MAC feedback | |||
02/06/2022 | Bank holiday - no session | |||
09/06/2022 | Stanislaw Krol |
Date | Presenter 1 | Topic | Presenter 2 | Topic |
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23/10/2020 | Introductory meeting | |||
30/10/2020 | Paloma Trascasa Castro | Characteristics of El Niño Southern Oscillation and remote teleconnections | Fran Morris | Paper discussion: 'The interaction between moist convection and atmospheric circulation in the tropics' |
06/11/2020 | Jennifer Fletcher | Paper discussion: 'Monsoons, ITCZs and the Concept of the Global Monsoon' | Richard Keane | An overview of ERA5 data |
13/11/2020 | Sam Hardy | A brief overview of tropical cyclones | Craig Poku | From dinosaurs to weather – how mathematical modelling is a crucial part of natural sciences |
20/11/2020 | Ben Pickering | A brief introduction to meteorological radar | Lawrence Jackson | The impact of time varying feedbacks on global and regional scale temperature projections |
27/11/2020 | Will Torgerson | Intensity fluctuations in the rapid intensification of hurricane Irma | Steef Boeing | LES and beyond: developments in very high-resolution simulation of the atmosphere |
04/12/2020 | Hellen Msemo | The values of weather and climate information to the Tanzania disaster risk reduction sector using non-monetary approaches | Alex Roberts | Deep convection visualisations using SEVIRI 10.8 BT |
11/12/2020 | End-of-term Xmas Dynamics Extravaganza |
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18/12/2020 | Christmas Break | |||
25/12/2020 | ||||
01/01/2021 | ||||
08/01/2021 | ||||
15/01/2021 | ||||
22/01/2021 | Jayesh Phadtare | The interaction between moist convection and orography | Simon Peatman | The Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO) at 50 |
29/01/2021 | Kelsey Mulder (guest) | An introduction to catastrophe modelling | ||
05/02/2021 | Leif Denby | Connecting convective organisation to the cloud environment in the tropical Atlantic'. | ||
12/02/2021 | Beth Woodhams | A low-level intro to low-level jets | Sam Clarke | The Bokeh Annotation and Reporting Component (BARC) needs you! |
19/02/2021 | Freya Addison | Radar Aeroecology Simulations. | Peter Willets | Presenting the paper: Klingaman, Nicholas P., Gill M. Martin, and Aurel Moise. "ASoP (v1. 0): A set of methods for analyzing scales of precipitation in general circulation models." |
26/02/2021 | Zhiqiang Cui | Microphysics of warm clouds | ||
05/03/2021 | Michael Baidu | Effects of vertical wind shear on Mesoscale Convective Systems (MCSs) in West Africa | Leo Saffin | CoMorph: “The Met Office's new convection parametrization and my limited understanding of it |
12/03/2021 | Fran Morris | Presenting the paper: "Quantifying the circulation induced by convective clouds in kilometer-scale simulations", Annika Oertel and Sebastian Schemm | Feedback on meetings/future planning | |
19/03/2021 | End-of-term Easter Dynamics Extravaganza | |||
26/03/2021 | Easter Break | |||
02/04/2021 | ||||
09/04/2021 | ||||
16/04/2021 | ||||
23/04/2021 | Presentation chat session | |||
30/04/2021 | Writing chat session | |||
07/05/2021 | Feeding back from EGU: A discussion of online conferences / Continuing Writing Discussion | |||
14/05/2021 | MRes Student - Earl Castro | |||
21/05/2021 | Feeding back from AMS Tropical | |||
28/05/2021 | Leo Saffin | Circulation in the outflow of warm conveyor belts | ||
04/06/2021 | Fran Morris | The Ultimate Organised Convection Model Tier List | ||
11/06/2021 | Doug's Maths Students | |||
18/06/2021 | Amethyst Johnson | Transfer Talk Practice! | Fran Morris | RMetS Talk Practice! |
24/06/2021 | Michael Baidu | RMetS Talk Practice! | Group discussion | Speakers for External Seminar series |
02/07/2021 | Jonathan Coney | Transfer Talk Practice! |