Lawrence, Professor Bryan

Professor of Weather and Climate Computing

Address

University of Reading

Department of Meteorology

University of Reading

Earley Gate

Whiteknights Road

Reading

RG6 6ET

 
ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9262-7860
twitter
@bnlawrence
email
+44 118 378 6507  
Website
https://www.bnlawrence.net  
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Publications

  • Adloff, Fanny; Lawrence, B. N.; Joussaume, Sylvie; Lautenschlager, Michael; Bessembinder, Janette; Biercamp, Joachim; Cofiño, Antonio; D’Anca, Alessandro; Fladrich, Uwe; Hines, Adrian; Juckes, Martin; Kazeroni, Rémi; Kershaw, Philip; Kindermann, Stefan; Nassisi, Paola; Pagé, Christian; Serradell, Kim; Valcke, Sophie; From climate models to informing policy decisions: the end-to-end importance of an effective research infrastructure. [doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu21-15251] Mar 2021
  • Senior, Catherine A.; Jones, Colin G.; Wood, Richard; Sellar, Alistair; Belcher, Stephen; Klein‐Tank, Albert; Sutton, Rowan; Walton, J.; Lawrence, B. N.; Andrews, Timothy; Mulcahy, Jane; U.K. Community Earth System Modeling for {CMIP}6. Journal Of Advances In Modeling Earth Systems, 12 (9) , [doi:10.1029/2019ms002004] Sep 2020
  • Pascoe, Charlotte; Lawrence, B. N.; Guilyardi, Eric; Juckes, Martin; Taylor, Karl E.; Documenting numerical experiments in support of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 ({CMIP}6). Geoscientific Model Development, 13 (5) , 2149--2167, [doi:10.5194/gmd-13-2149-2020] May 2020
  • Pascoe, Charlotte; Lawrence, B. N.; Guilyardi, Eric; Juckes, Martin; Taylor, Karl E.; Documenting numerical experiments in support of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 ({CMIP}6). Geoscientific Model Development, 13 (5) , 2149--2167, [doi:10.5194/gmd-13-2149-2020] May 2020
  • Galea, Daniel; Lawrence, B. N.; Kunkel, Julian; Detecting Tropical Cyclones using Deep Learning Techniques. [doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-9870] Mar 2020
  • Juckes, Martin; Taylor, Karl E.; Durack, Paul J.; Lawrence, B. N.; Mizielinski, Matthew S.; Pamment, Alison; Peterschmitt, Jean-Yves; Rixen, Michel; Sénési, Stéphane; The {CMIP}6 Data Request ({DREQ}, version 01.00.31). Geoscientific Model Development, 13 (1) , 201--224, [doi:10.5194/gmd-13-201-2020] Jan 2020
  • Juckes, Martin; Taylor, Karl E.; Durack, Paul J.; Lawrence, B. N.; Mizielinski, Matthew S.; Pamment, Alison; Peterschmitt, Jean-Yves; Rixen, Michel; Sénési, Stéphane; The {CMIP}6 Data Request ({DREQ}, version 01.00.31). Geoscientific Model Development, 13 (1) , 201--224, [doi:10.5194/gmd-13-201-2020] Jan 2020
  • Juckes, M. N.; Taylor, K. E.; Durack, P. J.; Lawrence, B. N.; Mizielinski, M. S.; Pamment, J. A.; Peterschmitt, J. -Y.; Rixen, M.; Senesi, S.; The CMIP6 Data Request (DREQ, version 01.00.31). Geoscientifc Model Development, 13 (1) , 201-224, [doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-201-2020] 2020
  • Pascoe, Charlotte; Lawrence, B. N.; Guilyardi, Eric; Juckes, Martin; Taylor, Karl E.; Designing and Documenting Experiments in CMIP6. Geoscientific Model Development Discussions 1--27, [doi:10.5194/gmd-2019-98] Jun 2019
  • Balaji, Venkatramani; Taylor, Karl E.; Juckes, Martin; Lawrence, B. N.; Durack, Paul J.; Lautenschlager, Michael; Blanton, Chris; Cinquini, Luca; Denvil, Sebastien; Elkington, Mark; Guglielmo, Francesca; Guilyardi, Eric; Hassell, Dc; Kharin, Slava; Kindermann, Stefan; Nikonov, Sergey; Radhakrishnan, Aparna; Stockhause, Martina; Weigel, Tobias; Williams, Dean; Requirements for a global data infrastructure in support of CMIP6. Geoscientific Model Development, 11 (9) , 3659--3680, [doi:10.5194/gmd-11-3659-2018] Sep 2018
  • Lawrence, B. N.; Rezny, Michael; Budich, Reinhard; Bauer, Peter; Behrens, Jörg; Carter, Mick; Deconinck, Willem; Ford, Rupert; Maynard, Christopher; Mullerworth, Steven; Osuna, Carlos; Porter, Andrew; Serradell, Kim; Valcke, Sophie; Wedi, Nils; Wilson, Simon; Crossing the chasm: how to develop weather and climate models for next generation computers?. Geoscientific Model Development, 11 (5) , 1799--1821, [doi:10.5194/gmd-11-1799-2018] May 2018
  • Hassell, D.; Gregory, J. M.; Blower, J.; Lawrence, B. N.; Taylor, K. E.; A data model of the Climate and Forecast metadata conventions(CF-1.6) with a software implementation (cf-python v2.1). Geoscientific Model Development, 10, 4619–4646, [doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-4619-2017] Dec 2017
  • Hassell, David; Gregory, Jonathan; Blower, J.; Lawrence, Bryan N.; Taylor, Karl E.; A data model of the Climate and Forecast metadata conventions (CF-1.6) with a software implementation (cf-python v2.1). Geoscientific Model Development, 10 (12) , 4619–4646, [doi:10.5194/gmd-10-4619-2017] Dec 2017
  • Hassell, David; Gregory, Jonathan; Blower, J.; Lawrence, Bryan N.; Taylor, Karl E.; A data model of the Climate and Forecast metadata conventions (CF-1.6) with a software implementation (cf-python v2.1). Geoscientific Model Development, 10 (12) , 4619–4646, [doi:10.5194/gmd-10-4619-2017] Dec 2017
  • Lawrence, Bryan N.; Rezny, Michael; Budich, Reinhard; Bauer, Peter; Behrens, Jörg; Carter, Mick; Deconinck, Willem; Ford, Rupert; Maynard, Christopher; Mullerworth, Steven; Osuna, Carlos; Porter, Andrew; Serradell, Kim; Valcke, Sophie; Wedi, Nils; Wilson, Simon; Crossing the Chasm: How to develop weather and climate models for next generation computers?. Geoscientific Model Development Discussions 1–36, [doi:10.5194/gmd-2017-186] Sep 2017
  • Hassell, Dc; Gregory, J. M.; Blower, Jon; Lawrence, B. N.; Taylor, Karl E.; A CF data model and implementation. Geoscientific Model Development Discussions 1--41, [doi:10.5194/gmd-2017-154] Jul 2017
  • Massey, Neil; Kershaw, Philip; Pritchard, Matt; Pryor, Matt; Pepler, Sam; Churchill, Jonathan; Lawrence, Bryan; Evolving JASMIN: high performance analysis and the data deluge. [doi:10.5281/zenodo.2597525] 2017
  • Massey, Neil; Kershaw, Philip; Pritchard, Matt; Pryor, Matt; Pepler, Sam; Churchill, Jonathan; Lawrence, Bryan; Evolving JASMIN: high performance analysis and the data deluge. [doi:10.5281/zenodo.2597524] 2017
  • Balaji, Venkatramani; Maisonnave, Eric; Zadeh, Niki; Lawrence, B. N.; Biercamp, Joachim; Fladrich, Uwe; Aloisio, Giovanni; Benson, Rusty; Caubel, Arnaud; Durachta, Jeffrey; Foujols, Marie-Alice; Lister, Grenville; Mocavero, Silvia; Underwood, Seth; Wright, Garrett; CPMIP: measurements of real computational performance of Earth system models in CMIP6. Geoscientific Model Development, 10 (1) , 19--34, [doi:10.5194/gmd-10-19-2017] Jan 2017
  • Eyring, Veronika; Gleckler, Peter J.; Heinze, Christoph; Stouffer, Ronald J.; Taylor, Karl E.; Balaji, V.; Guilyardi, Eric; Joussaume, Sylvie; Kindermann, Stephan; Lawrence, Bryan N.; Meehl, Gerald A.; Righi, Mattia; Williams, Dean N; Towards improved and more routine Earth system model evaluation in CMIP. Earth System Dynamics, 7 (4) , 813–830, [doi:10.5194/esd-7-813-2016] Nov 2016
  • Watson-Parris, Duncan; Schutgens, Nick; Cook, Nicholas; Kipling, Z.; Kershaw, Philip; Gryspeerdt, Edward; Lawrence, Bryan; Stier, Philip; Community Intercomparison Suite (CIS) v1.4.0: a tool for intercomparing models and observations. Geoscientific Model Development, 9 (9) , 3093–3110, [doi:10.5194/gmd-9-3093-2016] Sep 2016
  • Jones, Matthew; Blower, J.; Lawrence, Bryan; Osprey, Annette; Investigating Read Performance of Python and NetCDF When Using HPC Parallel Filesystems. High Performance Computing 153–168, [doi:10.1007/978-3-319-46079-6_12] 2016
  • Parton, Graham A; Donegan, Steven; Pascoe, Stephen; Stephens, Ag; Ventouras, Spiros; Lawrence, Bryan N.; MOLES3: Implementing an ISO standards driven data catalogue. International Journal Of Digital Curation, 10 (1) , [doi:10.2218/ijdc.v10i1.365] Feb 2015
  • Osprey, A.; Riley, G. D.; Manjunathaiah, M; Lawrence, B. N.; The development of a data-driven application benchmarking approach to performance modelling. 2014 International Conference On High Performance Computing & Simulation (Hpcs) [doi:10.1109/hpcsim.2014.6903760] Jul 2014
  • Mizielinski, M. S.; Roberts, M. J.; Vidale, P. L.; Schiemann, R.; Demory, M.-E.; Strachan, J.; Edwards, T.; Stephens, A.; Lawrence, B. N.; Pritchard, M.; Chiu, P.; Iwi, A.; Churchill, J.; del Cano Novales, C.; Kettleborough, J.; Roseblade, W.; Selwood, P.; Foster, M.; Glover, M.; Malcolm, A.; Supplementary material to {\&}quot$\mathsemicolon$High resolution global climate modelling$\mathsemicolon$ the {UPSCALE} project, a large simulation campaign{\&}quot$\mathsemicolon$. [doi:10.5194/gmdd-7-563-2014-supplement] Jan 2014
  • Mizielinski, M. S.; Roberts, M. J.; Vidale, P. L.; Schiemann, R.; Demory, M.-E.; Strachan, J.; Edwards, T.; Stephens, A.; Lawrence, B. N.; Pritchard, M.; Chiu, P.; Iwi, A.; Churchill, J.; del Cano Novales, C.; Kettleborough, J.; Roseblade, W.; Selwood, P.; Foster, M.; Glover, M.; Malcolm, A.; Supplementary material to {\&}quot$\mathsemicolon$High resolution global climate modelling$\mathsemicolon$ the {UPSCALE} project, a large simulation campaign{\&}quot$\mathsemicolon$. [doi:10.5194/gmdd-7-563-2014-supplement] Jan 2014
  • Mizielinski, M. S.; Roberts, M. J.; Vidale, P. L.; Schiemann, R.; Demory, M.-E.; Strachan, J.; Edwards, T.; Stephens, A.; Lawrence, B. N.; Pritchard, M.; Chiu, P.; Iwi, A.; Churchill, J.; del Cano Novales, C.; Kettleborough, J.; Roseblade, W.; Selwood, P.; Foster, M.; Glover, M.; Malcolm, A.; High resolution global climate modelling; the UPSCALE project, a large simulation campaign. Geoscientific Model Development Discussions, 7 (1) , 563--591, [doi:10.5194/gmdd-7-563-2014] Jan 2014
  • Mizielinski, M. S.; Roberts, M. J.; Vidale, P. L.; Schiemann, R.; Demory, M.-E.; Strachan, J.; Edwards, T.; Stephens, A.; Lawrence, B. N.; Pritchard, M.; Chiu, P.; Iwi, A.; Churchill, J.; del Cano Novales, C.; Kettleborough, J.; Roseblade, W.; Selwood, P.; Foster, M.; Glover, M.; Malcolm, A.; High-resolution global climate modelling: the UPSCALE project, a large-simulation campaign. Geoscientific Model Development, 7 (4) , 1629–1640, [doi:10.5194/gmd-7-1629-2014] 2014
  • Moine, M.-P.; Valcke, S.; Lawrence, B. N.; Pascoe, C.; Ford, R. W.; Alias, A.; Balaji, V.; Bentley, P.; Devine, G.; Callaghan, S. A.; Guilyardi, Eric; Development and exploitation of a controlled vocabulary in support of climate modelling. Geoscientific Model Development, 7 (2) , 479–493, [doi:10.5194/gmd-7-479-2014] 2014
  • Lawrence, B. N.; Bennett, V. L.; Churchill, J.; Juckes, M.; Kershaw, P.; Pascoe, S.; Pepler, S.; Pritchard, M.; Stephens, A.; Storing and manipulating environmental big data with JASMIN In 2013 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, {IEEE}, [doi:10.1109/bigdata.2013.6691556] Oct 2013
  • Osprey, A.; Riley, GD; Manjunathaiah, M; Lawrence, BN; A benchmark-driven modelling approach for evaluating deployment choices on a multicore architecture In Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel & Distributed Processing Techniques & Applications (PDPTA'13), 2013
  • Lawrence, B. N.; Balaji, V.; Bentley, P.; Callaghan, Sarah; DeLuca, C.; Denvil, S.; Devine, G.; Elkington, M.; Ford, R. W.; Aguilar, E.; Lautenschlager, M.; Morgan, M.; Moine, M. -P.; Murphy, S.; Pascoe, C. L.; Ramthun, H.; Slavin, P.; Steenman-Clark, L.; Toussaint, F.; Treshansky, A.; Valcke, S; Describing Earth System Simulations with the Metafor CIM,. Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss. [doi:10.5194/gmdd-5-1669-2012] 2013
  • Guilyardi, Eric; Lawrence, BN; Balaji, V.; Callaghan, Sarah; DeLuca, Cecelia; Denvil, Sebastien; Lautenschlager, Michael; Morgan, M.; Murphy, S.; Taylor, Karl E.; Documenting climate models and their simulations. Bulletin Of The American Meteorological Society, 94, 623–627, [doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00035.1] 2013
  • Juckes, M.; Pascoe, C.; Guilyardi, Eric; Lawrence, BN; Da Costa, E.; Exploring the CMIP5 multi-model archive with structured meta-data In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, pages 8016, 2012
  • Juckes, M.; Balaji, V.; Lawrence, BN; Lautenschlager, M.; Denvil, S.; Aloisio, G.; Kushner, P.; ExArch: Climate analytics on distributed exascale data archives In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, pages 10855, 2012
  • Lawrence, BN; Bennett, V.; Churchill, J.; Juckes, M.; Kershaw, P; Oliver, P.; Pritchard, M; Stephens, A.; The JASMIN super-data-cluster. Arxiv Preprint Arxiv:1204.3553 2012
  • Shaon, A.; Callaghan, Sarah; Lawrence, B. N.; Matthews, B.; Osborn, T.; Harpham, C.; Woolf, A.; Opening Up Climate Research: A Linked Data Approach to Publishing Data Provenance. International Journal Of Digital Curation, 7 (1) , 163--173, [doi:10.2218/ijdc.v7i1.223] 2012
  • Lawrence, B. N.; Balaji, V.; Bentley, P.; Callaghan, Sarah; DeLuca, C.; Denvil, S.; Devine, G.; Elkington, M.; Ford, R. W.; Guilyardi, Eric; Lautenschlager, M.; Morgan, M.; Moine, M. -P.; Murphy, S.; Pascoe, C.; Ramthun, H.; Slavin, P.; Steenman-Clark, L.; Toussaint, F.; Treshansky, A.; Valcke, S; Describing Earth system simulations with the Metafor CIM. Geoscientific Model Development, 5 (6) , 1493--1500, [doi:10.5194/gmd-5-1493-2012] 2012
  • Shaon, Arif; Callaghan, Sarah; Lawrence, B. N.; Matthews, Brian; Woolf, Andrew; Osborn, Timothy; Harpham, Colin; A linked data approach to publishing complex scientific workflows In 2011 IEEE Seventh International Conference on eScience, pages 303--310, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, [doi:10.1109/eScience.2011.49] Dec 2011
  • Williams, Dean N; Lawrence, B. N.; Lautenschlager, Michael; Middleton, Don; Balaji, V.; The Earth System Grid Federation: delivering globally accessible petascale data for CMIP5 In Proceedings of the 32nd Asia-Pacific Advanced Network Meeting, pages 121--130, Aug 2011
  • Williams, Dean N; Taylor, Karl E.; Cinquini, Luca; Evans, Ben; Kawamiya, Michio; Lautenschlager, Michael; Lawrence, B. N.; Middleton, Don; Contributors, ESGF; The Earth System Grid Federation: software framework supporting CMIP5 data analysis and dissemination. Clivar Exchanges, 16 (2) (56) , 40--42, May 2011
  • Guilyardi, Eric; Balaji, V.; Callaghan, Sarah; DeLuca, Cecelia; Devine, Gerry; Denvil, Sebastien; Ford, Rupert; Pascoe, C. L.; Lautenschlager, Michael; Lawrence, B. N.; Steenman-Clark, Lois; Valcke, Sophie; The CMIP5 model and simulation documentation: a new standard for climate modelling metadata. Clivar Exchanges, 16 (2) (56) , 42--46, May 2011
  • Poulsen, C. A.; Watts, P. D.; Thomas, G. E.; Sayer, A. M.; Siddans, R.; Grainger, R. G.; Lawrence, B. N.; Campmany, E.; Dean, S. M.; Arnold, C.; Cloud retrievals from satellite data using optimal estimation: evaluation and application to ATSR. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Discussions, 4, 2389--2431, 2011
  • Kershaw, P; Ananthakrishnan, Rachana; Cinquini, Luca; Heimbigner, Dennis; Lawrence, B. N.; (ed: Arabnia, H.; Gravvanis, G.; Solo, A.; ) A modular access control architecture for the Earth system grid federation In Proceedings of the International Conference on Grid Computing and Applications GCA'11, pages 3--9, CSREA Press, 2011
  • Sayer, A. M.; Poulsen, C. A.; Arnold, C.; Campmany, E.; Dean, SM; Ewen, G. B. L.; Grainger, R. G.; Lawrence, B. N.; Siddans, R.; Thomas, G. E.; Watts, P. D.; Global retrieval of ATSR cloud parameters and evaluation (GRAPE): dataset assessment. Atmospheric Chemistry And Physics, 11 (8) , 3913--3936, [doi:10.5194/acp-11-3913-2011] 2011
  • Lawrence, B. N.; Jones, C.; Matthews, B.; Pepler, S. J.; Callaghan, Sarah; Citation and peer review of data: moving towards formal data publication. International Journal Of Digital Curation, 6 (2) , 4--37, [doi:10.2218/ijdc.v6i2.205] 2011
  • Thomas, G. E.; Poulsen, C. A.; Siddans, R.; Sayer, A. M.; Carboni, E.; Marsh, S. H.; Dean, S. M.; Grainger, R. G.; Lawrence, B. N.; Validation of the GRAPE single view aerosol retrieval for ATSR-2 and insights into the long term global AOD trend over the ocean. Atmospheric Chemistry And Physics, 10, 4849-4866, [doi:10.5194/acp-10-4849-2010] 2010
  • Thomas, G. E.; Poulsen, C. A.; Sayer, A. M.; Marsh, S. H.; Dean, S. M.; Carboni, E.; Siddans, R.; Grainger, R. G.; Lawrence, B. N.; The GRAPE aerosol retrieval algorithm. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 2 (2) , 679--701, [doi:10.5194/amt-2-679-2009] Nov 2009
  • Latham, S. E; Cramer, R; Grant, M; Kershaw, P; Lawrence, B. N.; Lowry, R; Lowe, D.; O'Neill, K; Miller, P; Pascoe, S.; Pritchard, M; Snaith, H; Woolf, A.; The NERC DataGrid services. Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical And Engineering Sciences, 367 (1890) , 1015--1019, [doi:10.1098/rsta.2008.0238] Mar 2009
  • Lawrence, B. N.; Lowry, R; Miller, P; Snaith, H; Woolf, A.; Information in environmental data grids. Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical And Engineering Sciences, 367 (1890) , 1003--1014, [doi:10.1098/rsta.2008.0237] Mar 2009
  • Juckes, M. N.; Lawrence, B. N.; Inferred variables in data assimilation: quantifying sensitivity to inaccurate error statistics. Tellus Series A-Dynamic Meteorology And Oceanography, 61 (1) , 129--143, [doi:10.1111/j.1600-0870.2008.00376.x] 2009
  • Lowe, D.; Woolf, A.; Lawrence, B. N.; Pascoe, S.; Integrating the Climate Science Modelling Language with geospatial software and services. International Journal Of Digital Earth, 2 (1 supp 1) , 29--29, [doi:10.1080/17538940902866161] 2009
  • Bulgin, C. E.; Palmer, P. I.; Thomas, G. E.; Arnold, C. P. G.; Campmany, E.; Carboni, E.; Grainger, R. G.; Poulsen, C.; Siddans, R.; Lawrence, B. N.; Regional and seasonal variations of the Twomey indirect effect as observed by the ATSR-2 satellite instrument. Geophys. Res. Lett, 35, 11--207, [doi:10.1029/2007GL031394] 2008
  • Lawrence, B. N.; Kershaw, P; Blower, J.; Practical access control using NDG security In Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, 2007
  • Dean, S. M.; Flowerdew, J.; Lawrence, B. N.; Eckermann, S. D.; Parameterisation of orographic cloud dynamics in a GCM. Climate Dynamics, 28 (6) , 581--597, [doi:10.1007/s00382-006-0202-0] Dec 2006
  • Eckermann, S. D.; Wu, DL; Doyle, JD; Burris, JF; McGee, TJ; Hostetler, CA; Coy, L.; Stephens, A.; McCormack, JP; others,; Lawrence, B. N.; Imaging gravity waves in lower stratospheric AMSU-A radiances, Part 2: Validation case study. Atmospheric Chemistry And Physics, 6, 3343-3362, [doi:10.5194/acp-6-3343-2006] 2006
  • Juckes, M. N.; Lawrence, B. N.; Data assimilation for re-analyses: potential gains from full use of post-analysis-time observations. Tellus Series A-Dynamic Meteorology And Oceanography, 58 (2) , 171--178, [doi:10.1111/j.1600-0870.2006.00167.x] 2006
  • Dean, SM; Grainger, RG; Heuff, DN; Lawrence, B. N.; Orographic cloud in a GCM: the missing cirrus. Climate Dynamics, 24 (7) , 771--780, [doi:10.1007/s00382-005-0020-9] 2005
  • Cramer, R; Gutierrez, M.; van Dam, K. K.; Kondapalli, S.; Latham, S. E; Lowry, R; O'Neill, K; Woolf, A.; Lawrence, B. N.; The NERC DataGrid:“GOOGLING” secure data In Proceedings of the U.K. e-science All Hands Meeting, 2004
  • Ajtić, J.; Connor, BJ; Bodeker, GE; Hoppel, KW; Rosenfield, JE; Heuff, DN; Lawrence, B. N.; Dilution of the Antarctic ozone hole into southern midlatitudes, 1998--2000. Journal Of Geophysical Research, 109 (D17) , D17107, [doi:10.1029/2003JD004500] 2004
  • Ajtić, J.; Connor, BJ; Randall, CE; Bodeker, GE; Rosenfield, JE; Heuff, DN; Lawrence, B. N.; Antarctic air over New Zealand following vortex breakdown in 1998. Ann. Geophys., 21, 2175-2183, [doi:10.5194/angeo-21-2175-2003] 2003
  • Stephens, A.; Marsh, K. P.; Lawrence, B. N.; 2003
  • O'Neill, K; Cramer, R; Gutierrez, M.; van Dam, K. K.; Kondapalli, S.; Latham, S. E; Lowry, R; Woolf, A.; Lawrence, B. N.; The metadata model of the NERC DataGrid In Proceedings of the U.K. e-science All Hands Meeting, 2003
  • Cramer, R; Gutierrez, M.; van Dam, K. K.; Kondapalli, S.; Latham, S. E; Lowry, R; O'Neill, K; Woolf, A.; Lawrence, B. N.; The NERC DataGrid Prototype In Proceedings of the U.K. e-science All Hands Meeting, [doi:10.1.1.5.4271] 2003
  • Osprey, S. M.; Lawrence, B. N.; A possible mechanism for in situ forcing of planetary waves in the summer extratropical mesosphere. Geophysical Research Letters, 28 (7) , 1183-1186, [doi:10.1029/2000GL011984] Apr 2001
  • Lawrence, B. N.; A gravity-wave induced quasi-biennial oscillation in a three-dimensional mechanistic model. Quarterly Journal Of The Royal Meteorological Society, 127 (576) , 2005--2021, [doi:10.1256/smsqj.57607] 2001
  • Drysdale, Ef; Dunkerton, Tj; Lawrence, B. N.; GRAY, L. J.; Model studies of the interannual variability of the northern-hemisphere stratospheric winter circulation: The role of the quasi-biennial oscillation. Quarterly Journal Of The Royal Meteorological Society, 127 (574) , 1413--1432, [doi:10.1256/smsqj.57415] 2001
  • Rosier, S. M.; Lawrence, B. N.; The January 1992 stratospheric sudden warming: A role for tropical inertial instability?. Quarterly Journal Of The Royal Meteorological Society, 125, 2575--2596, [doi:10.1002/qj.49712555912] 1999
  • Plagmann, M.; Marsh, SH; Baggaley, WJ; Bennett, RGT; Deutsch, KA; Fraser, GJ; Hernandez, G.; Lawrence, B. N.; Plank, GE; Smith, RW; Annual variation of airglow heights derived from wind measurements. Geophysical Research Letters, 25 (24) , 4457--4460, 1998
  • Lawrence, B. N.; Some aspects of the sensitivity of stratospheric climate simulation to model lid height. Journal Of Geophysical Research, 102 (D20) , 23805, [doi:10.1029/97JD01771] 1997
  • Lawrence, B. N.; Randel, W. J.; Variability in the mesosphere observed by the Nimbus 6 pressure modulator radiometer. Journal Of Geophysical Research, 101 (D18) , 23475, [doi:10.1029/96JD01652] 1996
  • Joshi, M. M.; Lawrence, B. N.; Lewis, S. R.; The effect of spatial variations in unresolved topography on gravity wave drag in the Martian atmosphere. Geophysical Research Letters, 23 (21) , 2927--2930, [doi:10.1029/96GL02758] 1996
  • Stone, EM; Stanford, JL; Ziemke, JR; Allen, DR; Taylor, FW; Rodgers, CD; Lawrence, B. N.; Fishbein, EF; Elson, LS; Waters, JW; Space-time integrity of improved stratospheric and mesospheric sounder and microwave limb sounder temperature fields at Kelvin wave scales. Journal Of Geophysical Research, 100 (D7) , 14089, [doi:10.1029/95JD01171] 1995
  • Lawrence, B. N.; Fraser, G. J.; Vincent, R. A.; Phillips, A.; The 4-day wave in the Antarctic mesosphere. Journal Of Geophysical Research, 100 (D9) , 18899, [doi:10.1029/95JD01168] 1995
  • Joshi, M. M.; LEWIS, SR; Lawrence, B. N.; GRAVITY-WAVE DRAG IN 3-DIMENSIONAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELS OF MARS. Journal Of Geophysical Research, 100 (E10) , 21235--21245, [doi:10.1029/95JE02486] 1995
  • Rosier, SM; Lawrence, B. N.; Andrews, DG; Taylor, FW; Dynamical evolution of the Northern stratosphere in early winter 1991-92, as observed by the improved Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder. Journal Of The Atmospheric Sciences, 51 (20) , 2783--2799, [doi:10.1175/1520-0469(1994)051<2783:DEOTNS>2.0.CO;2] 1994

Achievements / Science Highlights

  • British Experience with building standards based networks for climate and environmental research, November 2010
  • Rethinking metadata to realise the full potential of linked scientific data, November 2010
  • Provenance, metadata and e-infrastructure to support climate science, November 2011
  • The Earth System Simulation Challenge: from climate models to satellite observations and back again, February 2010
  • Turning petabytes of globally distributed climate model data into policy, January 2010
  • Data To Knowledge Plenary Talk, February 2011
  • Issues to address before we can have an open climate modelling ecosystem, December 2012

Engagements

  • Public blog (approximately 2 articles per month in 2010)., February 2011
  • Public blog and twitter feed., March 2011
  • Provided a public review as part of a panel reviewing the Dutch Knowledge for Climate Programme theme on high quality climate projections., October 2012

Policy advice

  • Presentation and participation in NSF sponsored workshop on cyberinfrastructure data challenges., (International Organisations/Committees), September 2010
  • Data standards for the ESA climate change initiative, (International Organisations/Committees), September 2010
  • Presentations and contributions as part of IPCC TGICA (Task Group on Data and Scenario Support for Impacts and Climate Analysis), (International Organisations/Committees), July 2010
  • GEOSS Support for IPCC assessment, Geneva, February 2011 Provided a talk on data documentation and quality control as part of the "Managing Data to Support the Assessment Process" session at the "GEOSS Support for IPCC assessment" workshop in Geneva, February 2011. (In which I also reported work by the IPCC data distribution centre.), (), January 2011
  • Took part in an EC ICT competitiveness week meeting in Brussels. Delivered a talk on the impact of weather and climate computing on European competitiveness. , (European Union), August 2012
  • Delivered a talk on Exploiting high volume simulations and observations of the climate as part of the 3rd ESA climate change initiative colocation meeting., (), August 2012