
Dr Richard Keane
- Position: Research Fellow and Met Office Senior Scientist
- Areas of expertise: meteorology; fluid dynamics; numerical modelling; scientific editing.
- Email: R.J.Keane@leeds.ac.uk
- Location: 10.03 Priestley Building
- Website: ORCID
Profile
- 2005-2007 UK Government Scientist.
- 2007-2010 Postdoc in Meteorology, University of Reading
- 2010-2013 Postdoc in Meteorology, LMU Muenchen.
- 2013-2016 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Deutscher Wetterdienst (Vorhersagbarkeit und Verifikation).
- 2016- Senior Scientist, UK Met Office (Model evaluation and diagnostics). Based in ICAS, Leeds.
Publications:
2019). Regional Differences in the Response of Rainfall to Convectively Coupled Kelvin Waves over Tropical Africa. J. Climate, 32, 8143–8165. DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0014.1
(C.M. Wainwright, J. H. Marsham, R. J. Keane, D. P. Rowell, D. L. Finney, E. Black & R. P. Allan (2019). ‘Eastern African Paradox’ rainfall decline due to shorter not less intense Long Rains. npj Clim Atmos Sci 2, 34. DOI:10.1038/s41612-019-0091-7
R. J. Keane, K. D. Williams, A. J. Stirling, G. M. Martin, C. E. Birch & D. J. Parker (2019). Fast biases in monsoon rainfall over southern and central India in the Met Office Unified Model, JCli. DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0650.1
D. L. Finney, J. H. Marsham, L.S. Jackson, E. J. Kendon, D. P. Rowell, P. M. Boorman, R. J. Keane, R. A. Stratton & C. A. Senior (2019). Implications of improved representation of convection for the East Africa water budget using a convection-permitting model, JCli. DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0387.1
R. J. Keane, R. S. Plant & W. J. Tennant (2016). Evaluation of the Plant-Craig stochastic convection scheme (v2.0) in the ensemble forecasting system MOGREPS-R (24 km) based on the Unified Model (v7.3), GMD. DOI: 10.5194/gmd-9-1921-2016
R. J. Keane, G. C. Craig, G. Zängl & C. Keil (2014). The Plant-Craig stochastic convection scheme in ICON and its scale-adaptivity, JAS. DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-13-0331.1.
R. J. Keane, P. L. Read & G. P. King (2014). On the stirring properties of the thermally-driven rotating annulus, Physica D. DOI: 10.1016/j.physd.2013.11.004.
L. Davies, C. Jakob, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , & (2013). A single-column model ensemble approach applied to the TWP-ICE experiment, JGR-A. DOI: 10.1002/jgrd.50450.
R. J. Keane & R. S. Plant (2012). Large-scale length and time-scales for use with stochastic convective parametrization, QJRMetS. DOI: 10.1002/qj.992.
R. J. Keane, P. L. Read & G. P. King (2010). Effectiveness of stirring measures in an axisymmetric rotating annulus flow, Physica D. DOI: 10.1016/j.physd.2010.01.023.
Research interests
- Atmospheric convection
- Indian Monsoon
- Probabilistic NWP and forecast verification
- Stochastic parameterisation of convection
- Global model evaluation
Qualifications
- MPhys, Physics, University of Oxford
- DPhil, Physics (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics), University of Oxford
Professional memberships
- Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society
Research groups and institutes
- Atmospheric and Cloud Dynamics
- Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science