People
The Oxford Team
Prof Myles R. Allen
School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford
Myles Allen is the founder of climateprediction.net and was the first to propose the use of Probabilistic Event Attribution to quantify the contribution of human and other external influences on climate to specific individual weather events. He is Professor of Geosystem Science in the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford and Head of the Climate Dynamics Group in the University’s Department of Physics.
Andy Bowery
Andy Bowery is the Senior Software Engineer / Systems Architect of climateprediction.net. Andy works as a researcher at the Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford.
Dr Neven S. Fuckar
Dr Neven S. Fuckar is a weather and climate scientist who focuses on the detection and attribution of extreme events in the context of a changing climate. Neven is working on the HIASA (High Impact weather Attribution over South Africa) project using observations, reanalysis products, and CMIP5/6 and large-ensemble weather@home2 simulations to investigate properties, drivers, and impacts of extreme events (particularly heat waves, droughts, and floods).
Neven completed his PhD in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at Princeton University, USA, where he investigated large-scale ocean dynamics and the ocean’s role in climate. Prior to joining the Environmental Change Institute, Neven worked at the University of Hawaii, USA, and the Catalan Institute of Climate Sciences and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain, where he was involved in a spectrum of research subjects: coupled climate dynamics and modelling, Arctic sea ice, seasonal to decadal predictions, bias correction and forecast verification, climate change, and extreme events.
Dr Sihan Li
Sihan is currently working on the AFLAME project looking at Brazilian wildfires. She joined the CPDN team in Oxford in April 2017 to work on the TNC project, using weather@home simulations to investigate the impacts of recent extreme weather events on the Amazonian biosphere, looking at what role climate change played in the likelihood of those extreme weather events, as well as how the change in biosphere would affect the local climate.
Prior to joining ECI, she completed her Ph.D. at Oregon State University, where she worked on the weather@home project over western US region, looking at drivers of extreme drought events in the US, future regional climate change projections over the western US, as well as investigating uncertainties due to internal variability and physical parameter perturbations.
Dr Friederike E. L. Otto
Friederike was the scientific coordinator of the climateprediction.net project the role has been taken over by Sarah Sparrow. Friederike is leading the World Weather Attribution project and Transition Into The Anthropocene (TITAN). Her main research interest is the quantification of uncertainty and validation of climate models, in particular with respect to extreme events, in order to undertake attribution studies of extreme weather events to external climate drivers. A major focus of this work is to explore the propagation of uncertainty from external drivers to actual impacts of climate change on time-scales of up to 30 years. Friederike is the deputy director of the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford.
Dr Sarah N. Sparrow
Sarah Sparrow is the coordinator for CPDN responsible for work unit deployment and experiment submission and day-to-day management of the team. Sarah’s background is in atmospheric dynamics and she is interested in how large scale dynamics translates to climate impact studies. She is experienced in data driven coupling of climate model output to impact models and leads research proposals in this area. Sarah has extensive experience in preparing and analysing large ensembles of climate model output. She has tutored at several international attribution workshops and summer schools. Sarah is a senior researcher at the Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford.
Professor David Wallom
David Wallom is the technical director of climateprediction.net. he leads Oxford participation in a number of climate impact projects including studies on climate effects on NW timber industry and the effects of extreme weather events on south and east Asia. He is an associate director and leader of the Volunteer Computing Group at the Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford.