The Weather and Climate Science for Service Partnership Programme comprises projects designed to build the basis for strengthening the resilience of vulnerable communities to weather and climate variability, supported by the UK government's Newton Fund.
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Vertical Structure of weather over Southeast Asia
Call willl open mid-February
Submissions will be sought on ‘Vertical Structure of weather over Southeast Asia’.
The weather of Southeast Asia is dominated by convective activity which is strongly influenced by both local and large scale processes. The vertical structure of the atmosphere in the region has had little previous attention and there has been no systematic evaluation of model processes in the vertical, particularly with reference to their thermodynamic profiles and relevance to convection initiation. An accurate representation of the vertical structure of the atmosphere and its horizontal variability is likely to be key for models to accurately predict high impact weather in the region.
The project will work on the nature of weather events in the region with a key focus on vertical processes and structures as captured in global and convection permitting models. The overall aim is to identify model processes that play a key role in weather representation and work towards improving these in both parameterised and convection permitting models.
More information: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/collaboration/newton/opportunities/southeast-asia