Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science

Atmospheric Dynamics Research Group

The Atmospheric Dynamics group carries out research into atmospheric flows on scales from a few metres up to global scales, in regions of climatic significance around the world. Studies currently include orographic processes and gravity waves; convection, squall lines and frontal dynamics; boundary-layer turbulence and transport. Members of the group also carry out research on coastal oceanography and air-sea interactions. The research in the group spans a range of techniques including field measurements, laboratory experiments and numerical modelling.

Group members

Current Research projects in Atmospheric Dynamics

• AMMA
  African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis
• Cascade
  Cloud System Resolving Modelling of the Tropical Atmosphere
• Atmosphere-canopy interactions over complex terrain
• Mixing in an estuarine plume lift off zone
• NCAS Directorate
• NCAS Directorate 2
• NCAS Weather
• NCAS UFAM
• NCAS Climate
• Overlay Journal Infrastructure for Meteorological Sciences (OJIMS) Project
• Tethersonde Development
• T-REX
  Terrain induced rotor experiment

Completed research projects

• The Pennines experiment 2004
• Gaudex 2003
• Measurements of the flow through a mountain pass
• Laboratory simulations of flows over hills
• Numerical modelling of flows over mountains
• A programme of field experiments
• Detailed hydrography and 3-D modelling of a tidal intrusion fronts
• Spatial and temporal variability of the upper ocean on the New England Continental Shelf
• Turbulence and suspended particulate matter dynamics in the Dee estuary
• JET2000: Aircraft observations of the African Easterly Jet system (2000-2004)