TROPICAL WEATHER SYSTEMS GROUP


The tropical weather systems group is concerned with enhancing 
our understanding of weather systems in the tropics ranging from 
the mesoscale to the continental scale. Research combines 
observations with a hierarchy  of numerical models of varying 
complexity. 


My research is mainly focussed on improving our understanding of the 
West African monsoon and how it interacts with the tropical Atlantic.
This includes work on the life-cycle of African easterly waves including
how they interact with convection and the African easterly jet and how 
they develop into tropical cyclones. It also includes work on seasonal 
to interannual variability of the West African monsoon and how this 
interacts with the tropical Atlantic