Dr Simon C. Peatman MPhys (Oxon) PhD (UEA) AFHEA
School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds
Office: | Priestley 11.06 |
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URL: | www.simonpeatman.me.uk |
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I am a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science (ICAS) in the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds.
I am an Associate Fellow of the HEA and an Associate Editor of the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.
Research interests
- Tropical meteorology
- Intraseasonal variability and the Madden-Julian Oscillation
- Diurnal cycle of convection
- Maritime Continent
- Tropical cyclones
- Indian summer monsoon
- Convectively-coupled equatorial waves
Current projects
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- TerraMaris (PDRA)
- FORecasting for SouthEast Asia (FORSEA), WCSSP SE Asia (Co-I)
PhD supervision
- Alex Lewis – MCSs and machine learning in south-east Asia
- Ashar Aslam – Severe weather over south-east Asia
- Mid-Level Dry Air Intrusions over the Southern Maritime Continent. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 150 (759), 727–745, 2024. 10.1002/qj.4618 .
- Isaac Tan (Monash University) – The dynamics of cold surges over the Maritime Continent
- Wet and dry cold surges over the Maritime Continent. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 128 (12), e2022JD038196, 2023. 10.1029/2022JD038196 .
Previous projects
Below are the previous projects I have worked on at the University of Leeds. For a list of all past research, click here.
- Severe Precipitation In South East Asia (SPISEA), WCSSP SE Asia (PI)
- Coupled Air-Sea Prediction of Extreme Rainfall (CASPER), WCSSP India (co-I)
- Vertical Structure of Weather over South East Asia, WCSSP SE Asia (PDRA)
Curriculum vitae
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2018–2025: | Post-doctoral researcher, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds |
2014–2018: | Post-doctoral researcher, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading |
2010–2014: | PhD, tropical meteorology, University of East Anglia |
2006–2010: | MPhys Physics, St John's College, University of Oxford |