Andrew Turner, Curriculum Vitae, September 2016

Andrew Turner, Curriculum Vitae, September 2016
Employment
2014–
Lecturer in Monsoon Systems
Joint NCAS-Climate & Department of Meteorology, University of Reading
Performing monsoon research nationally and internationally, in collaboration with the
NCAS/Met Office Monsoon Working Group and GEWEX/CLIVAR Monsoons Panel.
2011–2014
NERC Fellowship — The future of the Indian Monsoon
NCAS-Climate, University of Reading
Examination of monsoon processes in current and future climates, working in collaboration with the NCAS/Met Office Monsoon Working Group, Joint Weather & Climate
Research Programme and Asian-Australian Monsoon Panel.
2009–2011
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow — Monsoons
NCAS-Climate, University of Reading
Examination of monsoon processes in current and future climates, working in collaboration with the NCAS/Met Office Monsoon Working Group and Joint Weather & Climate
Research Programme.
2006–2009
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (EU-ENSEMBLES project)
NCAS-Climate, University of Reading
Monsoon variability on intraseasonal–interdecadal timescales and interactions with
ENSO. The effects of climate change on the monsoon-ENSO system.
Education
2002–2005
PhD at the Department of Meteorology, University of Reading
1998–2002
MPhys (2.1) at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford
Research grants awarded
• NERC Large grant Robust spatial projections of real-world climate change (REAL projections): A. G.
Turner is Co-I (NE/N018591/1; £768K FEC; £614K @80%RC to UoR).
• Belmont Forum/JPI-Climate Collaborative Research Action on Climate Predictability and Interregional
Linkages Better understanding of Interregional Teleconnections for prediction in the Monsoon and Poles
(BITMAP) (2016-2019): A. G. Turner is PI (NE/P006795/1; e1132K of which sums to UoR are £377K
FEC; £302K @80%RC).
• NERC/MoES Drivers of Variability in the South Asian Monsoon Interaction of Convective Organisation
with Monsoon Precipitation: Atmosphere, Surface & Sea (INCOMPASS) (2015–2018): A. G. Turner is
PI; also Co-Is at Leeds, Met Office, CEH and numerous in India led from IISc (NE/L01386X/1; £1,369K
FEC; £1,095K @80%RC of which sums to UoR are £552K FEC; £441K @80%RC).
• CSSP-China project WP4.1 Modelling physical and dynamical processes over the Tibetan Plateau and
their regional effects over East Asia (2015–2018): A. G. Turner is a Co-I; Reinhard Schiemann is PI.
• CSSP-China project WP3.1 East Asian climate cariabiltiy and predictability (2015–2018): A. G. Turner
is a Co-I; Nick Klingaman is PI.
• DFID/NERC Future Climate For Africa Improving Model Processes for African climate (IMPALA)
(2015–2019): A. G. Turner is Co-I and WP1 lead; S. J. Woolnough is UoR PI; C. Senior is overall
project PI at the Met Office (NE/M017222/1; £406K FEC; £325K @80%RC).
• MoES (Ministry of Earth Sciences, India) National Monsoon Mission Improved Indo-UK capability for
seamless forecasting of monsoon rainfall: from days to the season (2014–2017): A. G. Turner is PI; also
Co-Is at NCMRWF, India and UK Met Office ($298K to UoR).
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• CSSP-China (year-1) project WP2.3 Predictability of regional climate and modes of variability (2014–
2015): A. G. Turner is PI (£62K to UoR).
• CSSP-China (year-1) project WP3.3 High resolution modelling of the East Asian monsoon (2014–2015):
A. G. Turner is a Co-I; P.-L. Vidale is PI.
• NERC/MoES Changing Water Cycle (South Asia) directed programme Hydrometeorological feedback
and changes in water storage and fluxes in northern Indian basins (2012–2016): A. G. Turner is UoR PI;
project lead is W. Buytaert at Imperial College; also Co-Is at the British Geological Survey and 4 Indian
institutions (NE/I022485/1; £206K FEC; £165K @80%RC).
• NERC/MoES Changing Water Cycle (South Asia) directed programme South Asian PRecIpitation: a
SEamless Assessment - SAPRISE (2012–2015): A. G. Turner is UoR Co-I for joint project; E. J. Highwood is UoR PI; project lead is M. Collins at Exeter University; partners also at UK Met Office and 6
Indian institutions (NE/I022469/1; £330K FEC; £264K @80%RC).
• NERC Fellowship The future of the Indian monsoon (2011–2014): A. G. Turner is sole investigator
(NE/H015655/1; £330K FEC; £264K @80%RC).
• NERC-Met Office JWCRP project Modelling Monsoon Systems (2010–2013): A. G. Turner is UoR PI;
G. Martin is Met Office PI (agreement no. R8/H9/37; approximately £255K to UoR).
Prizes
• The L F Richardson Prize of the Royal Meteorological Society 2009.
Community activities – International
• Associate Editor of Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society (September 2014–present).
• Co-Chair of the WCRP GEWEX/CLIVAR Monsoons Panel (2014–present)
• Coordinated production of CLIVAR Research Opportunity document on Intraseasonal, seasonal and
interannual variability and predictability of monsoons presented at CLIVAR SSG, Kiel (May 2013).
• Appointed expert reviewer of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report’s Second Order Draft of Climate Change
2013: The Physical Science Basis.
• Lead organizer of the CLIVAR Asian-Australian Monsoon Panel International Workshop on Interdecadal
Variability of the Global Monsoons, Nanjing, China (September 2012).
• Member of the WCRP CLIVAR Asian-Australian Monsoon Panel (2009-2014).
• Co-convener of the Global monsoon, tropical cyclones and tropical dynamics session at the Davos Atmosphere and Cryosphere Assembly (July 2013).
• Co-convener of the Global Monsoons session at the EGU General Assembly, Vienna (2010–2015) –
involving all aspects of session design, abstract selection, scheduling.
• More than 50 articles reviewed since 2008 for a variety of ISI journals.