NCAS Weather
Principal Investigator: Professor Douglas Parker
Co-Investigators: Dr Alan Gadian, Dr Ralph Burton, Dr John Marsham
Sponsor: NERC
Start Date: 1 April 2006
End Date:
Our work for NCAS-Weather concerns the following:
- Convective (cumulus) clouds, their dynamics and microphysics;
- Influence of convection on larger-scale dynamics, and interaction with the land surface;
- Physics and modelling of stratocumulus cloud decks;
- New-generation high-resolution modelling techniques.
More details of specific projects and results can be found on our individual research pages, and the pages associated with some of our projects:
African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA)
Convective Storm Initiation Project (CSIP)
Cascade: Cloud-resolving simulations of the tropical atmosphere
Convective and Orographically-induced Precipitation Study (COPS)
DIAMET: DIAbatic influence on Mesoscale structures in ExTratropical storms
VAMOS Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study (VOCALS)
We have also contributed to the national, NCAS efforts to further understand and predict the fate of emissions from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland.
Value to Leeds: £567,555