Callum Munday
Callum is an associate professor in climate science at the University of Oxford working on African and tropical climate dynamics. He became interested in the Kalahari Heat Low during his PhD, while investigating the performance of climate models over southern Africa.
Richard Washington
Richard is a professor of climate science at University of Oxford. Originally from Durban in South Africa, he is an expert on African climate and climate change. He has led several field projects including; BODEX and FENNEC in the Sahara; DO4Models in Botswana; CLARIFY in Namibia; and DRYCAB in Zambia.
Kitty Attwood
Kitty is a DPhil student at the University of Oxford, on the NERC-funded Doctoral Training Program. Her research focuses on African climate dynamics, using high resolution climate models alongside observational data. So far she has focused on the Southern African Heat Low, and has produced the first characterisation of the seasonal and diurnal cycle of the feature.
Charlie Knight
Charlie is a DPhil Student in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on rainfall onset over southern Africa to improve predictability of rainfall onset and constrain modelled estimates of future change. Charlie was a key part of the NERC-funded DRYCAB programme, which released radiosondes in Zambia to investigate rainfall onset.
Sebastian Engelstaedter
Sebastian is a researcher in the Oxford Climate Lab, with extensive field experience across many campaigns, including DIRTMAP, BoDEX, AMMA, Fennec, DO4Models, CLARIFY, DRYCAB and RIFTJet. As an expert in computational climate data analysis and field observation, Sebastian brings a wealth of experience to the team.
Chris Reason
Chris is a professor of climate science in the department of Oceanography at University of Cape Town (UCT). He is an expert on African climate, with over 200 publications. He leads one of the top climate science groups in Africa at UCT.
Lynette Van Schalkwyk
Lynette has has extensive knowledge of southern African as a weather forecaster at the South African Weather Service and as a researcher at the University of Cape Town. Her work has demonstrated the key role that drylines play in generating convective storms in the Kalahari region.
Eoin, Siri, Eli, Jamie
All are undergraduates from School of Geography and the Environment at University of Oxford. This was their first venture into the field (of many, we hope!). They will use data from the project in their dissertations.
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