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CONVEX: CONVective EXtremes
Using observational evidence and process understanding to improve predictions of extreme rainfall change.
Project leader
Prof Hayley Fowler
Project staff
Dr Stephen Blenkinsop
Dr Steven Chan
Dr Christopher Ferro
Dr Elizabeth Kendon
Nigel Roberts
Professor David B. Stephenson
Sponsors
NERC
Partners
University of Exeter
University of Reading
UK Met Office
UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP)
Land and Water division of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) of Australia
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in the United States
Colorado State University
Description
CONVEX is a three and a half year project which brings together UK climate modelling, statistical modelling, Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) scientists and the impacts community to work together to improve our understanding of the characteristics extreme rainfall and its underlying causative processes. It will provide a better understanding, essential for improved model projections of extreme rainfall change under global warming.