Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/M006417/1
Insights from observations, models and theory on the role of the ocean in weather and climate
Training Grant Award
- Lead Supervisor:
- Professor R Marsh, University of Southampton, Sch of Ocean and Earth Science
- Grant held at:
- University of Southampton, Sch of Ocean and Earth Science
- Science Area:
- Atmospheric
- Marine
- Overall Classification:
- Marine
- ENRIs:
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Global Change
- Science Topics:
- Climate & Climate Change
- Ocean - Atmosphere Interact.
- Ocean Circulation
- Abstract:
- We propose a 5-day advanced residential course at the UK Met Office, comprising lectures and computing practical activities. Our aim is to provide students with the knowledge and expertise to more skilfully analyse, interpret and design the recently implemented UK Met Office operational coupled seamless forecasting from short (coupled Numerical Weather Prediction), through medium (monthly/seasonal), to long (decadal to multi-centennial) timescales, focussing on the ocean. We anticipate that students will have a reasonable prior knowledge of ocean modelling and observations. We can teach up to ~40 (room capacity) late stage post-graduate or early-career researchers, of whom around half will be NERC-funded PhD students, with the other half from UKMO. This proposed course grows out of the Joint Ocean Modelling Programme (JOMP), of the NERC Joint Weather and Climate Research Programme, initiated in response to the need for combined efforts of the Met Office and NERC to ensure that the UK continues to be at the forefront of development and application of global ocean modelling using NEMO (Nucleus for European Modelling of the Ocean), a state-of-the-art modeling framework for oceanographic research, operational oceanography seasonal forecast and climate studies. The proposed training will provide the next generation of ocean/climate scientists with knowledge and experience of: ocean climate processes and their representation in models, and associated contribution to forecast errors; analysis of NEMO output data; expert use of real-time ocean observations; synthesizing model predictions and observations. NERC PhD students will also gain a basic understanding of the vital work of the Met Office. Each year, we estimate that NERC funds around 20 students to undertake PhD projects that address the role of the oceans in the climate system. In our experience, individual supervisors and university departments struggle to train these students in the analyses/use of both ocean and climate model systems, and in handling and interpreting large observational datasets. The proposed course would provide a unique national focus for such training, and we anticipate that it would help to network students with ocean modelling/data experts at the Met Office in particular. We also note that a substantial number of PhD students are interested in careers with climate research centres such as the UK Met Office (others include ECMWF and overseas equivalents), and we anticipate that the proposed course would help to inform students of such career pathways.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/M006417/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Doctoral Training
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Advanced Training
This training grant award has a total value of £22,812
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - Other Costs |
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| £22,812 |
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