I am happy to give talks on weather prediction and climate modeling, with a particular focus on the uncertainties involved in these predictions. I also have a growing interest on Machine Learning applied to these areas, and have given many recent talks on this topic.
Recorded Talks:
Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, many talks are recorded so they can be watched and, indeed, presented remotely. Here are a selection:
Machine Learning for Uncertainty Quantification in Earth System Modelling. Lecture at Prob_AI Hub Launch Event. 9 April 2024. Aimed at audience with ML/AI expertise, but not climate expertise.
Climate science: an introduction. Lecture for course on Environmental Ethics at Ripon College Cuddesdon. Aimed at a non-scientific audience.
The Fractal Dimension of Clouds in Convection Permitting Models. Boulder Stochastic seminar series. 15 June 2021. Aimed at scientific audience.
Machine Learning for Stochastic Parametrisation. CWI Seminar series on Machine Learning and Uncertainty Quantification for Scientific Computing. 10 June 2021. Aimed at scientific audience.
Butterflies and Hurricanes: The Physics of Weather Prediction. Oxford University Physics Society talk. 28 January 2021. Aimed at undergraduate physics audience.
Stochastic modelling for weather and climate prediction. Plenary talk at SIAM Conference on Mathematics of the Planet Earth. 7 August 2020. Aimed at scientific audience.
Media: Podcasts
Oxford Sparks(link is external) podcast, published online 4th Nov 2016
“In Press”(link is external) UK science podcast and accompanying blog, published online, 15th Aug 2016
“The Other Half”(link is external) US science podcast, published online, 4th Apr 2016
Media: Articles
Stochastic modeling for weather and climate prediction. Article for SIAM News magazine - a companion article to my talk (see link above). Suitable for a mathematically literate audience. (April 2021)
Outlook for the weekend? Chilly, with a chance of confusion
A short article published in Significance, the magazine of the Royal Statistical Society and the American Statistical Association, discussing how statistics is important when making probabilistic forecasts. (October 2015)
Banking on better forecasts: the new maths of weather prediction(link is external)
A short article on the Guardian website, discussing how we use computer simulators to make a weather forecast. Suitable for a mathematically literate audience. (January 2015)
Butterflies and Hurricanes: The Science of Weather Prediction
A general interest article written for the Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Alumni newsletter, The Sundial. (September 2014)
Predicting Predictability
A short article published in the Oxford Physics Department's newsletter (page 3), suitable for a general audience. (July 2012)