African atmospheric processes and their scale interactions in observations and model simulations.
Academic Profile
I graduated with a BA in Geography from the University of Oxford in 2022, receiving the Met Office Academic Partnership Award for my dissertation on the Kalahari heat low in southern Africa. I was also awarded the University of Oxford Innovation Award for my internship at Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE), where I analysed precipitation intensity in high resolution climate model simulations over southeast Brazil. I am part of the Oxford Climate Research Lab in the School of Geography and the Environment, with whom I have worked in Zambia as a fieldwork assistant on the DRY-CAB campaign to understand rainfall onset over southern Africa.
Since starting my DPhil I have been a co-investigator on the KAPEX field campaign in South Africa (https://kapex2024.com/) and a field scientist on the MASIKA (REACH) project in Kenya.
Current Research
Scale-interaction of convection and its role in key African meteorological processes using novel observations and model simulations.
Publications
Attwood, K., Washington, R. and Munday, C. (2024) ‘The Southern African Heat Low: Structure, Seasonal and Diurnal Variability, and Climatological Trends’, Journal of Climate, 37(10), pp. 3037–3053. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0522.1.
