Baker, Dr Laura

Senior Research Scientist

Address

University of Reading

Department of Meteorology

University of Reading

Earley Gate

Whiteknights Road

Reading

RG6 6ET

 
ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0738-9488
email
+44 118 378 5214  
Website
http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~rx738026/home/  
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Publications

  • Beverley Jonathan D.; Woolnough S.; Baker L. H.; Johnson Stephanie J.; Weisheimer A.; O’Reilly Christopher H.; Dynamical mechanisms linking Indian monsoon precipitation and the circumglobal teleconnection. Climate Dynamics [doi:10.1007/s00382-021-05825-6] Jun 2021
  • Baker L. H.; Shaffrey Len; Hawkins Ed; Has the risk of a 1976 north-west European summer drought and heatwave event increased since the 1970s because of climate change?. Quarterly Journal Of The Royal Meteorological Society, 147 (741) , 4143-4162, [doi:10.1002/qj.4172] 2021
  • Parker Tess; Woollings Tim; Weisheimer A.; O'Reilly Christopher H.; Baker Laura; Shaffrey Len C.; Seasonal Predictability of the Winter North Atlantic Oscillation From a Jet Stream Perspective. Geophysical Research Letters, 46 (16) , 10159--10167, [doi:10.1029/2019gl084402] Aug 2019
  • Baker L. H.; Shaffrey Len C.; Sutton R.T.; Weisheimer A.; Scaife A. A.; An Intercomparison of Skill and Overconfidence/Underconfidence of the Wintertime North Atlantic Oscillation in Multimodel Seasonal Forecasts. Geophysical Research Letters, 45 (15) , 7808--7817, [doi:10.1029/2018gl078838] Aug 2018
  • Beverley Jonathan D.; Woolnough S.; Baker Laura H.; Johnson Stephanie J.; Weisheimer Antje; The northern hemisphere circumglobal teleconnection in a seasonal forecast model and its relationship to European summer forecast skill. Climate Dynamics [doi:10.1007/s00382-018-4371-4] Jul 2018
  • Baker L. H.; Shaffrey Len C.; Scaife A. A.; Improved seasonal prediction of UK regional precipitation using atmospheric circulation. International Journal Of Climatology [doi:10.1002/joc.5382] Dec 2017
  • Bellouin Nicolas; Baker Laura; Hodnebrog Øivind; Olivié Dirk; Cherian Ribu; Macintosh Claire; Samset Bjørn; Esteve Anna; Aamaas Borgar; Quaas Johannes; Myhre Gunnar; Regional and seasonal radiative forcing by perturbations to aerosol and ozone precursor emissions. Atmospheric Chemistry And Physics, 16 (21) , 13885--13910, [doi:10.5194/acp-16-13885-2016] Nov 2016
  • MacIntosh C. R.; Allan R. P.; Baker L. H.; Bellouin N.; Collins W.; Mousavi Z.; Shine K. P.; Contrasting fast precipitation responses to tropospheric and stratospheric ozone forcing. Geophysical Research Letters, 43 (3) , 1263--1271, [doi:10.1002/2015gl067231] Feb 2016
  • Stohl A.; Aamaas B.; Amann M.; Baker L. H.; Bellouin N.; Berntsen T. K.; Boucher O.; Cherian R.; Collins W.; Daskalakis N.; Dusinska M.; Eckhardt S.; Fuglestvedt J. S.; Harju M.; Heyes C.; Hodnebrog Ø.; Hao J.; Im U.; Kanakidou M.; Klimont Z.; Kupiainen K.; Law K. S.; Lund M. T.; Maas R.; MacIntosh C. R.; Myhre G.; Myriokefalitakis S.; Olivié D.; Quaas J.; Quennehen B.; Raut J.-C.; Rumbold S. T.; Samset B. H.; Schulz M.; Seland Ø.; Shine K. P.; Skeie R. B.; Wang S.; Yttri K. E.; Zhu T.; Evaluating the climate and air quality impacts of short-lived pollutants. Atmospheric Chemistry And Physics, 15 (18) , 10529--10566, [doi:10.5194/acp-15-10529-2015] Sep 2015
  • Baker L. H.; Collins W.; Olivié D. J. L.; Cherian R.; Hodnebrog Ø.; Myhre G.; Quaas Johannes; Climate responses to anthropogenic emissions of short-lived climate pollutants. Atmospheric Chemistry And Physics, 15 (14) , 8201--8216, [doi:10.5194/acp-15-8201-2015] Jul 2015
  • Martínez-Alvarado Oscar; Baker Laura H.; Gray Suzanne L.; Methven John; Plant Robert S.; Distinguishing the Cold Conveyor Belt and Sting Jet Airstreams in an Intense Extratropical Cyclone. Monthly Weather Review, 142 (8) , 2571–2595, [doi:10.1175/mwr-d-13-00348.1] Aug 2014
  • Martínez-Alvarado Oscar; Baker L. H.; Gray S. L.; Methven J.; Plant R. S.; Distinguishing the cold conveyor belt and sting jet air streams in an intense extratropical cyclone. Mon. Weather Rev., 142, 2571--2595, 2014
  • Baker L. H.; Rudd A. C.; Migliorini S.; Bannister Ross Noel; Representation of model error in a convective-scale ensemble prediction system. Nonlinear Processes In Geophysics, 21 (1) , 19--39, [doi:10.5194/npg-21-19-2014] Jan 2014
  • Baker L. H.; Gray S. L.; Clark P. A.; Idealised simulations of sting-jet cyclones. Quarterly Journal Of The Royal Meteorological Society, 140 (678) , 96--110, [doi:10.1002/qj.2131] Mar 2013
  • Baker Laura; Martínez-Alvarado Oscar; Methven John; Knippertz Peter; Flying through extratropical cyclone Friedhelm. Weather, 68 (1) , 9–13, [doi:10.1002/wea.2047] Jan 2013
  • Martínez-Alvarado Oscar; Gray Suzanne L.; Clark Peter A.; Baker Laura H.; Objective detection of sting jets in low-resolution datasets. Meteorological Applications, 20 (1) , 41–55, [doi:10.1002/met.297] Oct 2011
  • Gray S. L.; Martínez-Alvarado Oscar; Baker L. H.; Clark P. A.; Conditional symmetric instability in sting-jet storms. Quarterly Journal Of The Royal Meteorological Society, 137 (659) , 1482–1500, [doi:10.1002/qj.859] Jul 2011
  • Baker Laura; Sting jets in severe northern European wind storms. Weather, 64 (6) , 143--148, [doi:10.1002/wea.397] Jun 2009