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Leading weather scientists and practitioners from the UK, South Africa, Zambia and Mozambique have commenced a two-week “testbed” to improve early warnings for severe thunderstorms in Southern Africa. Southern Africa remains a region prone to extreme weather, with hundreds of thousands of people and livelihoods put at risk every year. The region is expected to...
CDT Supervisor Professor Christopher Davies has been awarded the Price Medal (G) by the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS). Please see RAS piece on Chris below: Professor Christopher Davies is awarded the Price Medal for a series of investigations modelling the fluid dynamics and material properties of the Earth’s core. This work has helped understand...
Congratulations to the following CDT students who were awarded prizes at our annual CDT Awards Ceremony in December 2023. Megan Richards, Oluwaseun Coker, Jose Florido Lopez and Rhiannon Nicholls were awarded the best paper prize for their publication "On the near-field interaction of vertically offset turbulent plumes" Click here view their paper. CDT Director, Peter...
The Fluid Dynamics CDT hosted the annual EPSRC CDT Thesis Twitter Conference on Monday 6th November 2023. All the entries were brilliant and we loved learning about the cutting-edge research happening at Leeds! Congratulations to CDT Fluid Dynamics student Ciara Higham who was given the Judges Award for her entry "Experimental methods to investigate environmental...
The UK Fluids Conference 2023 was held in Glasgow 17-19th October 2023. Many thanks to the conference co-organisers at the University of Glasgow and the University of Strathclyde. The successful event was attended by over 200 Fluids researchers. Prizes were awarded as follows: Best Poster : Miranda Horne (University of Leeds, CDT Fluid Dynamics Associate) Best...
Congratulations to our CDT co-Director Steve Tobias on being elected an APS Fellow! Steve Tobias [2023] University of Leeds Citation: For significant contributions to astrophysical and geophysical fluid dynamics, combining mathematical analysis and deep physical insight leading to considerable advances in the understanding of solar dynamos, wave-mean flow interactions, and turbulent flows, and for selfless service...
New University of Leeds podcast “How to Fix…” brings you the hopeful solutions to some of the greatest challenges facing our society. Each week, host @ItsRichWilliams will be joined by scientists and researchers at the forefront of these issues. The first episode tackles air pollution, featuring our CDT Co-Director @CathNoakes, and @JimMcQuaid and @DrJamesTate Our...
We are very pleased to have welcomed 9 new students to the CDT this past week. Students attended a comprehensive set of induction activities, including introductory talks, research talks, a poster session, team building, and an outreach demonstration session. Wetropolis - an extreme rainfall and flood demonstrator, shown by Prof Onno Bokhove (https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/24/2483/2020/) Team building...
A group of Leeds researchers has won funding to create new methods to forecast tropical storms, using Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Nowcasting with Artificial Intelligence for African Rainfall project (NAIAR) project aims to use new digital solutions to create 0 to 6 hour predictions – “nowcasting” – for tropical storms, using satellite data. The methods...
The Gabor Medal 2023 was awarded to CDT Co-Director, Professor Catherine Noakes OBE FREng for her pioneering contributions to infection risk modelling and her exceptional leadership in the field through ground-breaking research and a multidisciplinary approach. The Gabor Medal is now awarded annually for distinction of interdisciplinary work between the life sciences with other disciplines....