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Emma Ford BEng, MSc, Doctoral Scholar

DPhil Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics

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  • Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics

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  • Atmospheric processes
emma.ford@physics.ox.ac.uk
Robert Hooke Building, room F59
Hydro-Climate Extremes
Atmospheric Processes
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Academic Biography

I am a Doctoral Scholar funded by the NERC UKRI Environmental Research Scholarship. I have a First Class BEng Engineering Degree, and the Institute of Civil Engineers Award (2020), and a Master's of Science degree in Water Science, Policy and Management (2021). I am in the fourth year of a four year DPhil/PhD course in across Atmospheric, Planetary and Oceanic Physics and the School of Geography and the Environment. 

I and am co-supervised by Professor Hannah Christensen, Professor Louise Slater, Professor Manuela Brunner. 

My research explores machine learning techniques to understand the physical processes and prediction pathways of hydro-climate extremes in the UK, mainly floods. I have worked on a project testing atmospheric circulation patterns association with flood events, and am currently working on a methodological comparison of machine learning (ML) models for the analysis of flood processes. I am also involved in collaborations with UKCEH and Hydro-Jules, for a UK Model Inter-comparison Project, and the influence of modes of climate variability on global natural flows using the ROBIN dataset. 

I am an advanced coder in Python, and experienced using ML packages like scikit-learn, pytorch, tensorflow and neuralHydrology. I am very interested in extreme events, and the intersection of the analysis of extremes and ML.

Research interests

Atmospheric Drivers of Extreme Floods
Machine Learning - Extreme Events - Prediction
Machine Learning - Random Forest - Neural Networks
Hydroclimate Extremes - Floods - Convective Precip

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