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.
- 2017- Science Domain Expert in Atmospheric Dynamics, CEMAC, University of Leeds.
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