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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)