Challenges and outlook for convection-permitting climate modelling

EJ Kendon, AF Prein, CA Senior… - … Transactions of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Climate projections at very high resolution (kilometre-scale grid spacing) are becoming
affordable. These 'convection-permitting'models (CPMs), commonly used for weather …

Investigating the impact of atmosphere–wave–ocean interactions on a Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone

G Varlas, V Vervatis, C Spyrou, E Papadopoulou… - Ocean Modelling, 2020 - Elsevier
Understanding the governing mechanisms of atmosphere–wave–ocean​ interactions is
critical for unravelling the formation and evolution mechanisms of severe weather …

The Met Office operational soil moisture analysis system

B Gómez, CL Charlton-Pérez, H Lewis, B Candy - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
In this study, the current Met Office operational land surface data assimilation system used to
produce soil moisture analyses is presented. The main aim of including Land Surface Data …

Evaluating benefits of two-way ocean–atmosphere coupling for global NWP forecasts

M Vellinga, D Copsey, T Graham… - Weather and …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
We evaluate the impact of adding two-way coupling between atmosphere and ocean to the
Met Office deterministic global forecast model. As part of preoperational testing of this …

Impact of air–wave–sea coupling on the simulation of offshore wind and wave energy potentials

L Wu, M Shao, E Sahlée - Atmosphere, 2020 - mdpi.com
Offshore wind and wave energy potentials are commonly simulated by atmosphere and
wave stand-alone models, in which the Atmosphere–Wave–Ocean (AWO) dynamical …

The impact of ocean‐wave coupling on the upper ocean circulation during storm events

D Bruciaferri, M Tonani, HW Lewis… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Many human activities rely on accurate knowledge of the sea surface dynamics. This is
especially true during storm events, when wave‐current interactions might represent a …

Hydrological impact of widespread afforestation in Great Britain using a large ensemble of modelled scenarios

M Buechel, L Slater, S Dadson - Communications Earth & Environment, 2022 - nature.com
Ambitious afforestation proposals in the last decade target potential flood mitigation and
carbon storage benefits but without a systematic, large-scale (> 1000 km2) quantitative …

The sensitivity of probabilistic convective‐scale forecasts of an extratropical cyclone to atmosphere–ocean–wave coupling

ES Gentile, SL Gray, HW Lewis - Quarterly Journal of the Royal …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The benefits of dynamical atmosphere–ocean–wave coupling in probabilistic weather
forecasts generated using convective‐scale ensemble prediction systems are to date …

Exceptional atmospheric conditions in June 2023 generated a northwest European marine heatwave which contributed to breaking land temperature records

S Berthou, R Renshaw, T Smyth, J Tinker… - … Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Northwest European shelf experienced unprecedented surface temperature
anomalies in June 2023 (anomalies up to 5° C locally, north of Ireland). Here, we show the …

The impact of wave model source terms and coupling strategies to rapidly developing waves across the north-west european shelf during extreme events

NG Valiente, A Saulter, JM Edwards, HW Lewis… - Journal of Marine …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Prediction of severe natural hazards requires accurate forecasting systems. Recently, there
has been a tendency towards more integrated solutions, where different components of the …