Beena is a Climate Researcher currently working on the Horizon Europe ASPECT project, which focusses on providing climate-related information to facilitate climate adaptation. Her role involves: 1) co-producing user needs between scientists and organisations needing usable climate prediction information for timescales ranging from months up to 30 years, and 2) assessing global and regional forecast skill to develop seamless climate prediction information applicable to value-added, user-relevant adaptation decisions/climate services.
She has broad expertise in experimentation, evaluation, and diagnostics of Earth System Models and their components, for studying climate predictability, variability and change. Her recent research has focussed on coupled ensemble forecasting of the atmosphere and ocean, forecast initialisation of the ocean and sea ice, and the impact of observations on climate prediction.
Education
Ph.D., Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany (2002-2006). Thesis titled "Effect of daily surface flux anomalies on the time-mean oceanic circulation". PhD Advisor: J.-S von Storch
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Professional Experience
- 04/2017 - 12/2022: Scientist, Earth System Predictability Section, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, UK.
- 03/2008 - 04/2017: Research Scientist, National Centre for Atmospheric Science - Climate / Univ. of Reading, Reading, UK.
- 07/2007 - 07/2007: Visiting Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany.
- 08/2002 - 08/2002: Visiting Researcher, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.
- 06/2001 - 12/2006: Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology / Meteorological Institute, Univ. of Hamburg, Germany.
External recognition
Contributing Author, Chapter 10 on Detection and Attribution of Climate Change, Physical Science Basis, Working Group 1, United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - Fifth Assessment Report (IPCC - AR5), 2013.