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Sarah-Jane Lock Dr Sarah-Jane Lock

Post-Doctoral Research Assistant

Telephone number: +44(0) 113 34 35605
Email address: s.j.lock@leeds.ac.uk
Room: 10.128

Link to personal page

Personal CV

Biography

Currently, working on the UM Dynamical Core (Gung-Ho) project, Phase 1 (2011-2013) - researching numerical methods for use in the next generation dynamical core for weather and climate forecasting (PI: Alan Gadian / Stephen Mobbs). The project is a collaboration between the UK Met Office, the Science & Technology Facilities Centre and several UK universities.

Work also continues in exploring cut-cell methods for representing orography in atmospheric models, which commenced during my PhD:

  • PhD project (2011-current): Beth Good (supervisors: Alan Gadian, Andrew Ross, Sarah-Jane Lock) exploring methods for simulating turbulent flows over steep terrain;

  • Support under the WRF Development Testbed Center Visitor Program 2009 and 2011 from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR, US) enables further progress in collaboration with Joe Klemp & Bill Skamarock (NCAR). 

Qualifications

2008 - PhD, University of Leeds; Supervisors: Alan Gadian, Alison Coals; entitled "Development of a new numerical model for studying microscale atmospheric dynamics"

1999 - Msci Theoretical Physics (I), Queen Mary, University of London

Memberships/Fellowships

Member of Royal Meteorological Society & Institute of Physics

Research Interests

  • numerical methods for atmospheric dynamics;
  • cut-cell representation of orography in atmospheric numerical models;
  • finite-volume methods for irregularly-shaped grids;
  • time-stepping methods, in particular, explicit schemes;
  • numerical analyses of time-integration methods.

Project details

Project title

Gung-Ho! (UM Dynamical Core project): 2011-2013 (Researcher Co-Investigator)

Supervisors

Alan Gadian (PI) / Stephen Mobbs (Co-I)

Funding

NERC-funded

Start date

February 2011

Publications

Featured in Queen Mary University of Leeds Physics Careers guide (November 2011): link to PDF from http://ph.qmul.ac.uk/undergraduate/careers

Publications