Mathematics and Statistics

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Dr Cyril Morcrette

Senior Lecturer

 C.Morcrette@exeter.ac.uk

Overview

Due to my French roots, my first name is pronounced "si-RILL" not "SI-roll". Like "cyrillic" but without the "ic". You can hear it here.

I am a senior lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. I work on Streatham Campus one day a week, where I am a member of the Global Systems Institute.

The rest of the week, I work at the Met Office, also in Exeter. I am part of the Atmospheric Processes and Parametrizations team (APP). We develop the parametrization schemes used in the Unified Model and LFric, which the Met Office uses to model weather and climate. Specifically, I am interested in using machine learning to emulate parametrization schemes, making existing schemes cheaper and making too-expensive schemes affordable. I am also keen to explore emulation as a route towards stochastic physics, all as a way of improving the spread in our ensemble forecasts.

I am also interested in using atmospheric models and observations as a source of data from which to learn better ways of representing physical processes that occur on scales smaller than the model grid-boxes but which are key to realistic weather and climate simulations.

Previously, I worked on cloud-cover parametrizations, and I have an interest in aviation icing, and forecasting surface short-wave radiation for solar panel productivity forecasts.

Before that, I did an MPhys at Warwick University, a PhD in atmospheric sciences at the Meteorology Department at Reading University (slantwise convection and conditional symmetric instability) and a 3-year post-doc also at Reading studying the initiation of summer-time convection in the British Isles.

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Publications

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Further information

Students

PhD students
  1. Morgan Sparey (co-supervision with Mark Williamson, Stefan Siegert and Peter Cox, Exeter University, Sept 2023 to present).
  2. Adam Hayes (co-supervision with Lisa Kreusser and Corwin Wright, Bath University, Sept 2023 to present).
  3. James Briant (co-supervision with Daniel Giles and Serge Guillas, University College London, February 2023 to present).
  4. Weiyu Zhang (co-supervision with Alexandru Rap, University of Leeds and Kwinten Van Weverberg and Kalli Furtado, Oct 2021 to present).
  5. Mariana Clare (co-supervision of summer placement with Omar Jamil (Met Office), Imperial College London, Jan-Oct 2021).
  6. Jake Gristey (co-supervision with Christine Chiu, Reading University, Sept 2015 to Oct 2018).
  7. Luke Sheldon (co-supervision with Arnaud Czaja, Imperial College London, Oct 2011 to Dec 2014).
  8. Michael Glinton (co-supervision with Suzanne Gray, Reading University, Oct 2009 to Oct 2013).
MSc project students
  1. Sara Rafter (co-supervision with Stephen Thomson, Exeter University, January-Aug 2024).
  2. Tsz-Lam Anakin Chan (co-supervision with Marion Mittermaier (Met Office) and Chris Budd, Bath University, June-Sept 2023).
  3. Phuong Mai Mellie Nguyen (co-supervision with John Bruun, Exeter University, June-Sept 2023).
  4. Zhou Dingcheng  (co-supervision with Tinkle Chugh, Exeter University, January-Aug 2023).
  5. Joe Carton-Kelly (co-supervision with Stephen Thomson, Exeter University, January-Aug 2023).
  6. Matthew Coward (co-supervision with Kwinten Van Weverberg (Met Office), Bath University, June-Sept 2022).
  7. Toby Cave (co-supervision with Kwinten Van Weverberg (Met Office), Bath University, June-Sept 2022).
  8. Yuzhe Ren (co-supervision with Daniel Giles and Serge Guillas, University College London, June-Sept 2021).
Undegraduate project students
  1. Mathilde Molineaux (2024).
  2. George Bayley (2024).

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