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MOSAC16-17 November 2006PAPER No 11.10Title: Collaboration with UK Academic CommunityPresenter: Brian Golding

Met OfficeContactUniversityNotes / recent progressAtmospheric Processes andParametrizations1. Flow over hills model(BLASIUS)2. Large eddy / cloud resolvingmodel (LEM/CRM)Tom AllenBen ShipwayLeeds, Reading,Aberystwyth, ImperialCollege, DurhamReading, Leeds,Imperial College,UMIST andAberystwyth1.5 day workshop on LEM/CRM and BLASIUSusage and development held at Met Office, June2005. This led to software generated in theuniversities being incorporated in the CRMduring 2006.3. Orographic dragparametrizationStuart WebsterLeedsHelen Wells (MetOffice) PhD withAndrew RossExcellent progress on understanding drag oncomplex terrain and processes which controlmountain wake development.4. Turbulent flow over hills Simon Vosper,Andy BrownLeedsAndrew Ross, StephenMobbs,Collaborative work in this area has led todevelopments to the BLASIUS code (forestcanopies and turbulence closure schemes).MetOffice will contribute to new field campaign onIsle of Arran (autumn 2006) throughobservations and BLASIUS modelling support.The latter will involve tests of new pressuresolver.

5. Hazardous winds inorographic regionsSimon VosperLeedsStephen MobbsRecent collaborative field campaign aimed atstudying rotors downwind of Pennines.Collaborative participation (with BAe146 aircraft)in T-REX took place in March-April 2006.Resulting observational and modelling activitieswill contribute to development of the UM.6. Chemical and AerosolTransport in ConvectiveCloudsJon PetchLeedsGerry Devine PhD(CASE) with DougParker and Ken CarslawInvestigated tracer transport in convection andincluded a basic sulphur cycle in the CRM.7. Modelling of tropicalconvection (e.g. GCSS deepconvection WG case 5)Jon Petch, SteveDerbyshireCGAM, ReadingJulia Slingo, SteveWoolnoughOngoing evaluation of model performance.May also evolve into collaboration on a NERCconsortium bid to simulate tropical convectionover large domains, if that bid is successful.8. Met Office funded researchcontract on modelling ofconvection as a turbulentprocessRoy KershawReadingAlan GrantMaking a direct contribution to Met Officeresearch in this area.9. Non-Equilibrium Convection Steve Derbyshire Reading10. Convection and orography Samantha SmithL. Davies PhD (CASE)with Bob PlantLeeds; Victoria Smith,PhD (CASE) withStephen MobbsTwo years completed. Basic CRM methodologydefined and promising initial results obtained.Initial work has focused on use of BLASIUSmodel to examine behaviour of gravity waves inpresence of surface heating. CASE student will

participate in international field campaign, COPS(summer 2006).11. The Importance of Large-Scale Processes for thePrediction of Cirrus Cloudsin Large-Scale ModelsDamian WilsonLeedsHuiyi Yang PhD withSteven DobbieWork has involved setting up a GCSS cirrusworking group case for simulation.12. CLOUDNET Damian Wilson ReadingAnthony Illingworthand Robin HoganUsing data collected by the CloudNet project toinform developments in model paramtrization,for clouds and their properties, particularly cloudinhomogeneity.13. Boundary layer processes inmid-latitude cyclones.Bob BeareReadingIan Boutle PhD (CASE)with Bob PlantStarting autumn 200614. Improvement ofstratocumulusrepresentation in models bythe use of high resolutionobservationsAdrian LockReadingAnthony Illingworthand Robin HoganCollaboration on NERC funded project which isjust starting up.Forecasting Research15. Assimilation of Dopplerradar winds from theChilbolton research radar.Sue BallardSalfordChris CollierFathalla RihanDirect collaboration with Salford has now drawnto a close. The work by a NERC funded PDRA atSalford concentrated on definition of radarerrors and production of superobbed data aswell as undertaking some assimilation and

16. Use of moisture fluxconvergence and inparticular the verticallyintegrated divergence as apredictor for precipitationfor potential use as anobservation operator in 3D-Var via use of the balancedvertical velocity defined bythe Richardson Equation.17. Working with Prof AlanThorpe and post-doc SarahDance on high resolutiondata assimilation.Sue BallardSue BallardReading and SurreyPeter PanagiReadingSarah Danceforecast tests. Met Office staff extended the MetOffice Var system to allow assimilation of radialwinds. We have run experiments with Chilboltonresearch radar single scan data andinvestigated superobbing strategies andspecification of radar and background errors.Work is focussing on impact on convectivestorms, and will use CSIP data for input.Work is now in progress implementing use ofthis work utilising operational multiscan andmultiradar radial Doppler winds.The contract is now complete and we arelooking for resource to implement the resultsmore fully in VAR.Link with Prof Thorpe finished when he movedto NERC. Sarah has been working on 2projects. One is with Dr Mike Cullen at Exeterand the other is on issues related to treatmentof non-Gaussian pdfs in data assimilationthrough ensemble techniques and particlefilters. Part of the current work with Dr Cullen isextending Var to allow for surface friction in thecontrol variable transforms in the global system.We need to ensure that work is extended to

18. Flood Risk from ExtremeEvents (FREE) project onExploitation of new datasources and assimilationtechniques for storm andflood forecastingSue BallardPeter ClarkAnthony IllingworthSarah DanceSue GrayBob Plant (all Reading)Bob Moore (CEH,Wallingford)limited area models to interact with highresolution data assimilation. Sarah Dance is aPDRA funded by NERC through DARC and nowhas a RCUK fellowship.Support for 2 PDRAs for 3 years Research inconvective scale DA (focussing on use of radar,especially refractivity for low level humidity andclear air Doppler), ensemble precipitationprediction and coupling to hydrological models.This has received very high ratings so far andwe firmly hope it will be funded by NERC19. Development of Convectivescale EnKFSue BallardAlan O’NeillRoss BanisterStefano Migliorini(Reading)One PDRA (Stefano Migliorini) and one PhD (tobe appointed) within DARC to research intodevelopment of convective scale EnKF systemwithin the UM framework.20. Exploration of scales inanalysesSue BallardGillian Baxter PhDstudentNancy Nichols, AmosLawless, Sarah DanceReading Maths and MetDARC NERC CASE PhD student investigatingproblems of analysis in limited area domains andneed to capture synoptic evolution on scaleslarger than analysis domain. Idealised studiesusing simple models. Directly related to issues inconvective scale data assimilation.21. Convective Storm InitiationProject (CSIP)Peter ClarkLarge NERC-fundedconsortium, primarilyAlan Blyth (Leeds),Doug Parker (Leeds),Keith BrowningThe CSIP 2005 summer campaign ran verysuccessfully through June, July and August.Results from this and the 2004 pilot are alreadybeing used to validate (and inspire)improvements to UM dynamics, microphysics

22. Predictability of ConvectiveStorms23. Biometeorology of High-Altitude Insect Layering asRevealed by Vertical-Looking Radar(Reading), Chris Collier(Salford), AnthonyIllingworth (Reading)Peter Clark CASE Studentship –Peter Lean, Reading,co-supervised with SueGrayPeter Clark CASE Studentship –Curtis Wood, cosupervised with JanetBarlow (Reading) andIan Woiwood(Rothampstead).and, particularly, turbulence. A small number ofpapers have been published and a substantialnumber of others are in the pipeline.CSIP support for PDRAs at Reading and Leedswill come to an end soon and a follow-upproposal has been submitted to support onePDRA at Leeds.Successfully completed PhD. Usefulmethodologies have been developed to look atpredictability of convection within the UMframework. Peter Lean is now working in theMet Office at Exeter.This is an unusual collaboration, coming to theend of its second year – bringing fairly wellestablished meteorology into entomology toexplain nocturnal insect migration behaviour.This is proving extremely successful in theentomology world (the student has alreadypublished 2 papers which are highly regarded).In the final year of the project a simpleLagrangian dispersion model (sharing much incommon with NAME) was produced to modelimpact behaviour with considerable success.Final thesis now being written up.24. Cloudnet Peter Clark Robin Hogan (Reading) Informal collaboration - provision of mesoscalemodel data for evaluation of model cloudclimatology.25. Urban surface exchange Peter Clark Stephen Belcher(Reading)Follow-up work from CASE student – PDRA hasbeen working for a year to work on improvedtreatment of urban surface exchange in UM.26. 'Sting Jet' diagnostics Peter Clark Sue Gray, Keith Unfortunately funding from Risk Management

27. Use of the UM for urban airqualityPeter ClarkBrowning (Reading)Ranjeet Sokhi,(Hertford)Solutions to fund a PDRA looking atcharacteristics of severe wind-storms (forapplication in the Insurance industry) fellthrough but a proposal has been submitted forNERC funding.Informal collaboration using UM as areplacement for MM5 in chemical transportmodels. NERC student recently appointed.28. Use of the UM foratmospheric chemistrymodelling.29. Variational Inference forStochastic DynamicEnvironmental ModelsPeter ClarkPeter ClarkRanjeet Sokhi,(Hertford) plus othersfrom IC, UEA,Manchester, CEH.Dan Cornford (Aston)John Shawe-Taylor(UCL),Manfred Opper (ex-Southampton, now TUBerlin),Ian Roulstone (Surrey)UWERN has funded the development of aninterface to enable UM data to drive the USEPACMAQ chemistry and transport model. JCMM hasacted as advisor in best use of model data.Project on novel, non-Gaussian approaches toDA in stochastic systems. Primarily involved inadvisory capacity.30. Modelling chemistry in deepconvection. ACTIVE.31. Convective scale modellingin support of ICEPICRichard ForbesMaria Rousseau(Cambridge)Informal collaboration assisting Cambridge inuse of the UM at convective scale to simulatethe Hector Storm in support of observationaland modelling studies of chemical transportthrough deep convective systems.Richard Forbes Alan Blyth (Leeds) Informal collaboration comparing UMsimulations of early stage convection withICEPIC data.32. EPSRC FloodRisk Brian Golding Ian Cluckie (Bristol)

Management ResearchConsortium.33. 2-D spatial rainfall modelling Peter Dempsey Imperial College &Sheffield UniversityThe Met Office is a member of a consortium fora DTI-sponsored SAM* project to study radarrainfalldata for 2-D spatial rainfall modelling inurban drainage applications. (*SAM = Systembased Analysis and Management of urban floodrisks)34. Environmental conditionsfor ignition and smoulderingPenny Marno Edinburgh University Sub-contract to undertake fire testing and fuelmoisture measurements for peat to establish theenvironmental conditions for ignition andsmouldering, as part of the project to developthe Met Office Fire Severity Index35. Dust modelling Mark Harrison Reading UniversityEllie HighwoodAdditional funding provided to tailor the work ofa post-doc to the Met Office dust project.36. Probability Hazard MatrixProjectCranfield University(Shrivenham)Adam Zagorecki andKen McNaught.Investigating the Value of EnvironmentalInformation in Military Decision-Making (e.g.Apache sensor systems).37. Comparison of MOSESoutputs with observations.Roderick SmithUEASupervisor: StephenDorlingPhD Student: Xin KongInformal collaboration on comparison of MOSES-PDM, in-situ and satellite estimates of soilmoisture content. Some MOSES-PDM data andthe stand-alone MOSES code supplied to a PhDstudent. Thesis completed June 2006. Somesensitivity studies done with MOSES, varying soil

and land-use parameters – possible publicationsto follow.38. Interpretation of roundBritain flights measuringpollutantsDerrick RyallCEH Edinburgh (DavidFowler)Provision of NAME to help intepret round britain(AMPEP) flights to estimate emmisons of arange of pollutants. Benefits include data forevaluating NAME.39. Characterising atmosphericresponse to aheterogeneous urbansurfaceDave Thomson /Doug MiddletonReading University(Janet Barlow & AnilPadhra (CASE student))We hope this will lead to developments of urbanparametrizations for the NAME model.40. Mace Head / IrishEnvironment Agency datainterpretation contracts41. Ozone trajectories andtracer work42. Supplying back-maps forLeverhulme trust projectunder contract to UEAAlistair ManningAlistair ManningBristolBristol University(Dudley Shallcross)Alistair Manning UEA Supplying back mapsInterpretation of Mace Head and Carnsore Pointobservations to estimate baseline concentrationsand European emissionsImproving the ozone trajectory model and usingBristol University tracer experiments to test theNAME model43. Urban meteorology and airpollution modellingDoug MiddletonUniversity ofHertfordshire (ProfRanjeet Sokhi)Honorary Senior Research Fellowship. Also jointwork on contract for Environment Agency onchemistry in plumes using NAME.44. Collaboration following onfrom ISB52 project on useof lidar data for urbanboundary layers andDoug MiddletonUniversity of Salford(Prof Chris Collier andDr Fay Davies)Preparing further analyses, conference talks andpapers comparing model results (e.g. NAME,ADMS, UM) with lidar/amdar data.

pollution.45. Discussions of joint researchproposals urbanmeteorology and airpollutionDoug MiddletonKing's College London(Prof Sue Grimmond)University ofBirmingham (Dr JennySalmond) ImperialCollege (Prof HelenApSimon)Discussions deployment sonic anemometers andscintillometers over London. Will get access tourban data (if funded). Also member of APRIL(Air Pollution Research In London) SteeringCommitteeNumerical Modelling46. Use of Portable UM at CGAMand porting assistance toIBM (HPCx)PUM Manager Reading ,Lois Steenman-ClarkContinuing contact with the CGAM group asUM6.1 use becomes established.47. Use of PUM at CSAR,Manchester and portingassistance to SGI AltixPUM ManagerManchester,Zoe ChaplinHelp with PUM6.1 beta release andbenchmarking on a new cluster system (Bull)48. FLUME Steve Mullerworth Manchester,Graham RileySome consultancy this year to help with theFLUME project.49. Other current UM licenceholders (excluding climate)(if this is an active collaborationit will be referenced elsewhere)PUM ManagerQueen Mary’s, UCLMin ZhuSept 200450. Southampton LES over Urban environments: Feb 2005

Zhengtong Xie,51. Lancaster52. Leeds,53. Leeds54. BathPhilip Younger / KeithBevenJohn Dobbie / AlanGadianJuma Al-Maskari / AlanGadianDuncan Hodgescoupling UM with flooding model: Mar 2005Physics of Cirrus Clouds, Oct 2005Mesoscale Modelling: Isle of Aarran, Oct 2005Attenuation of Satellite Comms: Dec 200555. Collaboration on forecastverificationClive WilsonExeterDavid StephensonCollaboration expected to strengthen during thecoming year.56. Exploiting MeteosatSecond Generation (GERB,SEVERI) to evaluate NWPmodels - SINERGEE project.Sean MiltonReadingRichard Allan / TonySlingoSupplying SINERGEE data to ESSC as part of theRADAGAST project to look at cloud, aerosol,clear sky radiative transfer over Africa usingGERB and ARM data57. AMMA-UK collaborations –collaboration with onperformance of UM (surfaceSean MiltonLeedsDoug Parker (+othersImproved understanding of parametrizationdeficiencies.

fluxes, convection) in westAfrican monsoon. UM dataprovided to BADC.in AMMA-UK)58. Surface Fluxes (TurbulentExchange) over the ArcticIcecapSean MiltonLeeds,Catheryn Birch / IanBrooks.CASE studentship starting Oct 2006Data Assimilation andEnsembles59. NWP Data AssimilationSection collaborates inseveral ways with DARC.We are on their SSC. Weprovide them with our dataassimilation software, andalso with computer time todevelop and test it.Andrew LorencDARC, ReadingAlan O’Neill60. Participation in EU ASSETproject.David JacksonDARC, ReadingWilliam Lahoz61. Ozone assimilation David Jackson DARC, ReadingWilliam Lahoz62. PV control variable. Mike Cullen DARCRoss BannisterContract let to enable operational trialling

63. Collaboration with university(UWERN) participants inJCMMVarious UWERN/JCMM64. BL control variable Mike Cullen UWERN (Sarah Dance) Contract let to enable operational trialling65. Development ofstratospheric modelconfigurations.Mike Keil UGAMP, Reading66. Greenland flow distortionexperimentRichard SwinbankReading (Sue Gray)UEA(Ian Renfrew, NinaPetersen)Providing sensitive area predictions to helptarget dropsondes during the field campaign67. Understanding of AfricanEasterly Waves and theirPredictability: a MoistSingular Vector approachRichard Swinbank,Ken Mylne, SeanMiltonVector University ofReading (Brian Hoskinsand Ros Cornforth)This study aims to further the understanding ofAfrican Easterly Waves,their predictability, andpossible improved initial perturbationsforensemble forecasts.68. Use of new dynamicalvariables in numericalmethodsMike CullenSt Andrews (DavidDevlin)69. Long standing collaboratorson mathematicalunderstanding ofatmospheric dynamics (e.g.1996 Newton Instituteprogramme)Mike CullenOxford, Surrey,AberystwythWorkshop funded for 2007 in Edinburgh

70. On Industrial Advisory groupfor MSC in mathematicalmodelling71. Computation of StochasticForcing in Large-ScaleAtmosphere/Ocean GeneralCirculation Models72. The Effect of BalancedControl Variable Transformsin Variational DataAssimilationMike Cullen BathMike Cullen CASE Studentship –Oxford (Anthony Lock)Mike Cullen CASE Studentship –Reading(David Katz)Completing late 2006.73. Adaptive grid generationusing mass transportmethods74. Efficient solution methodsfor elliptic pdesMike CullenMike CullenCASE studentship-Bath (Emily Walsh)GWRT studentship-Bath (Sean Buckeridge)75. Targeting for adaptiveobservationsAndrew Lorenc CASE Studentship -Reading (Tom Frame)76. Space Weather Mike Keil EPSRC studentship UCL(with Alan AylwardNew student just started on coupling the UMwith a space weather model77. Stochastic Parameterisationof Convective for EnsemblesNeill Bowler CASE Studentship –Reading (Michael Ball)Starting Autumn 2006

(Ken Mylne) (Reading supervisor –Bob Plant)78. Public Understanding ofProbability ForecastsMark Roulston ExeterObservations Based Research79. We maintain a standingcollaboration with theUniversity of Hertfordshire intheir development ofaircraft-mounted probes forthe counting and sizing ofatmospheric ice crystals.Phil BrownHertfordshire (Prof.Paul Kaye)Small Ice Detector Mk2 (SID-2) flown duringsummer 200580. Ice and PrecipitationInitiation in Cumulus(ICEPIC), studying theinitiation of precipitation andice-phase particles in UKsummertime convectivecloudsPhil BrownAlan Blyth, LeedsTom Choularton,ManchesterField project in 2005/06. Data analysis andassociated modeling studies are underway.81. Rain in Cumulus overOceans (RICO), studies ofthe warm-rain process andprecipitation evolution in thetrade cumulus regime. Partof a larger collaboration withPhil Brown Alan Blyth, Leeds +student/postdocField project in 2005. Data analysis andassociated modeling work underway.

US field project.82. Stratocumulus and drizzlestudiesPhil Brown Anthony Illingworth /Robin Hogan, ReadingDiscussions underway with a view to developingcollaboration in study of Sc-topped boundarylayer and drizzle impacts over southern UK,through combined radar and aircraft studies.83. Development of a cirrusradiometer.Clare LeeCardiff (Prof PeterAde).NERC grant with CASE student. Start date01/10/06..Case Student: CarolynCook84. Planning for intercomparisonbetween assortedinstruments on BAe146-301and ground basedinstruments to investigateproblems with modelling ofthe radiative properties ofozone in the IRAlan VanceGeraint Vaughan,ManchesterPlans in place waiting for suitable weatherwindow.85. TAFTS instrumentdevelopment and researchin to clear air spectroscopyand cirrus clouds.Jonathan P TaylorImperial CollegeLondon (Harries)Case Student: CarolineCoxOngoing research in to impacts of cirrus on far-IR radiative transfer using data from Eaquatecampaign in 2004.86. The role of dimers in thewater vapour continuum.Jonathan P Taylor,Stuart NewmanReading (Shine),Imperial College(Harries), UCL(Tennyson), RAL (KConsortium grant being submitted to NERC.

Smith), Cambridge(Jones, R) NPL(Gardiner)87. Assimilation of cloud andprecipitation affectedmicrowave data.88. Impact of temperature ofsea water on its refractiveindex and resulting impacton AATSR SSTmeasurements. Impact ofdesert dust on AATSR SSTs.David Pollard Reading (Alan O’Neill) Dave Pollard registered for PhD at ReadingUniversity,Stuart Newman Edinburgh New emissivity calculations supplied andincorporated in AATSR SST algorithm, impactstudy ongoing89. CAESAR (Cirrus and Anvils:European Satellite andAirborne Radiationmeasurements project)Anthony Baran,Clare LeeImperial (J Pickering),Reading (Hogan), RAL(Poulsen), Manchester(Gallagher)Collaborative field campaigns in 2005 2006 and2007 to study cirrus clouds, involving FAAMBae146 aircraft, Chilbolton radar and CloudSat.90. STACATO (SemiTransparent Airborne Cirrusand ThermodynamicObservations)Anthony Baran,Clare LeeManchester(Gallagher), ImperialCollege (Pickering),Reading (Hogan),Lancaster (McKenzie).Collaborative field campaign investigating thincirrus scheduled for 2009 or 2010 off DarwinAustralia91. Investigations of theradiative/dynamical effectsof mineral dust.Jim HaywoodLeeds (Parker) andESSC, Reading (A.Slingo)Spin off of the SINERGEE project with TonySlingo. 1 paper published and more work incollaboration with Sean Milton’s groupprogressing

92. PI of the Dust and BiomassExperiment (DABEX)investigating the radiativeand optical properties ofmineral dust and biomassburning aerosols in Africa.Jim HaywoodReading (Highwood),Manchester (Coe) andLeeds (McQuaid)universityDABEX campaign (Jan/Feb 2006) on goinganalysis.93. Co-I of Dust Outflow andDeposition to the Ocean(DODO) investigatingmineral dust radiative andoptical properties.Jim HaywoodReading (Highwood),Manchester (Coe) andLeeds (McQuaid)universityDODO1 and DODO2 (Feb and Aug 2006) ongoing analysis.94. United Kingdom Chemistryand Aerosols (UKCA) ModeldevelopmentJim HaywoodLeeds (Carslaw),Cambridge (Pyle)UKCA model has been constrained byobservations of industrial, biomass burning, andsea-salt aerosols. Model development continuesunder CCE in Hadley Centre95. Participation in ABWEXcampaign96. Flow over orography,Canopy flow in forestedHills.Jeremy Price Manchester Experiment to examine wind variance just abovethe bondary layer. Data Supplied to HelenWebster, PMS. April-June 2006.Jeremy Price Leeds Collaboration to examine reverse-flow inforested hilly terrain. Due Autumn 2006 on theIsle of Arran.97. Instrument studies Jeremy Price Manchester Collaboration to examine the effectiveness of ascanning radiometer to delineate thermalplumes. In conjunction with Tim Hewison, OD2.Autumn 2006.

98. Insect studies Jeremy Price Greenwich/ RadarEntomology Unit.99. APPRAISE Jeremy Price Reading, Oxford,Imperial and othersLong-term collaboration providing use offacilities at MRU.MRU will participate in a comparison of skyradiometers and retrieval agortihms for aerosolscattering coefficient. 2006/2007100. FAAM – Facility forAirborne AtmosphericMeasurements BAE146-301 The Met Office andNCAS (NERC Centres forAtmospheric Science )jointly fund and run theFAAM BAe146-301 aircraft.OBR staff collaborate widelywith many universities invarious committees thatoversee the running of thefacility. In addition there iswidespread collaboration inthe conduct of airborneresearch campaigns101. UFAM – UniversityFacility for AtmosphericMeasurement UFAM is afacility of ground basedremote sensinginstrumentation used by theJohn Foot NERC New 10 year agreement now in place.Jeremy Price Leeds Management Sporadic involvement. (Jeremy is part of UFAMmanagement group.)

UK university community foratmospheric research. OBRstaff collaborate with manyuniversity groups in thisarea primarily through theMet Research Unit atCardington.Satellite Applications (2005)102. Assimilation ofsatellite dataBryan Conway,Sue Ballard, JohnEyreReading (Alan O’Neilland others)Frequent interaction between Met Office staff atReading and DARC103. Sea surfacetemperature retrievalRoger SaundersEdinburgh (ChrisMerchant, OwenEmbury)Joint AATSR reprocessing for Climate projectunderway with Edinburgh leading consortium104. Cloud detection insatellite imagery (TRICSproject)Roger SaundersEdinburgh (ChrisMerchant, Chris Old)Student: Shona MackieJoint project under way with PhD Case student(started Oct 2005) and Post Doc working withMSG data.105. Use of advanced IRsounder data for climatestudiesRoger Saunders,John Eyre (+Hadley Centre)Edinburgh (ChrisMerchant), Oxford(Myles Allen), Reading(Tony Slingo)Met Office has asked these universities (andothers) to comment on plans for storing a IASIdata set for climate studies. Some AIRS dataprovided to Edinburgh.106. AATSR SST validation Roger Saunders Leicester (DavidLlewellyn-Jones, GaryCorlett)Exchange of buoy data sets for validation

107. Ocean remotesensingRoger SaundersSouthampton (IanRobinson)Liaison with researchers; delivery of lectures toMSC course and hosting of MSC student atExeter108. Evaluation of WindsatdataSteve EnglishEssex (DavidBebbington)Preliminary comparison of Windsat polarimetricradiances with equivalents calculated from NWPmodel fields.109. Ground-based GPSobservation of atmosphericwater vapourDave Offiler, JohnNashNottingham (RichardBingley)Met Office contracted IESSG, Nottingham U, tosupply systems to process UK GPS network data110. Assimilation ofEnvisat measurements oftemperature, ozone andwater vapour111. Targeted processingand assimilation of satellitedata112. Assimilation ofdynamical information fromsatellite imagery for NWPJohn Eyre CASE Studentship –Reading (Alan O’Neill)Student: Carole PeubeyJohn Eyre CASE Studentship –Reading (Alan Thorpe)Student: Marie DandoJohn Eyre CASE Studentship –Surrey (Ian Roulstone)Student: Alison RuddStudent completed 4 years. Thesis almostcomplete. Important lessons learnt on theproblems of assimilating ozone observations.Student completed 3 years. Thesis almostcomplete. Interesting sensitivities shown todensity at which ATOVS radiances assimilated.Student completed 2 years.113. Assimilation ofground-based remotelysensedobservationsJohn EyreStudentship – Reading(Alan O’Neill). Student:Tim HewisonPart-time Met Office student completed 4 years.Thesis almost complete. Improvedunderstanding of the information content andassimilation problems likely with ground-based

114. Validation of MSGrainfall over AfricaRoger Saunders CASE Studentship –Reading (DavidGrimes) Student: RobinChadwickradiometer data.Student to start in Oct 2006.115. Assimilation ofcloudy satellite radiancesMatthew Szyndel,John EyreCASE Studentship -Reading (Alan O'Neill)Student: Alison FowlerStudent to start in Oct 2006.116. Correlatedobservation errors in dataassimilationDynamics ResearchJohn Eyre CASE Studentship –Reading (Sarah Dance)Student: Laura StewartStudent to start in Oct 2006.117. Collaboration onnumerical methods for GFD.Nigel Wood &Andrew StaniforthExeterCosponsored Exeter U/Met Office Chair(John Thuburn)+1 EPSRC CASEstudentDevelopment of a vertical Lagrangian coordinateRelevance of orders of accuracy of numericalmodellingNumerics of physics-dynamics coupling