Professional summary

Bethan uses satellite Earth Observation data to research interactions between the land surface and the atmosphere. She has a particular interest in processes occurring on subseasonal-to-seasonal timescales (S2S: 2 weeks to 2 months) and in how the land surface can provide additional predictability for S2S forecasts. She also focuses on designing new methods for evaluating Earth System Models using observations.

Bethan is currently a European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative (ESA CCI) research fellow, investigating land-atmosphere interactions during flash droughts. She is also a member of the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO).

Selected publications

Harris Bethan L. et al. , (2024), Contrasting responses of vegetation productivity to intraseasonal rainfall in Earth system models. Earth System Dynamics Discussions, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/esd-2024-2

Taylor C.M. et al. , (2024), Multiday soil moisture persistence and atmospheric predictability resulting from Sahelian mesoscale convective systems. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024GL109709

Klein Cornelia et al. , (2023), Untangling the importance of dynamic and thermodynamic drivers for wet and dry spells across the tropical Andes. Environmental Research Letters, 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acb72b

Harris Bethan L. et al. , (2022), Satellite‐observed vegetation responses to intraseasonal precipitation variability. Geophysical Research Letters, 49, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2022GL099635

Taylor Christopher M. et al. , (2022), “Late-stage” deforestation enhances storm trends in coastal West Africa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2109285119

Talib Joshua et al. , (2022), The sensitivity of the West African monsoon circulation to intraseasonal soil moisture feedbacks. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 148, 1709-1730, https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4274

Harris Bethan L. et al. , (2022), A moist available potential energy budget for an axisymmetric tropical cyclone. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 79, 2493-2513, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0040.1

Other Publications

Talib Joshua et al. , (2023), Surface-driven amplification of Madden-Julian oscillation circulation anomalies across East Africa and its influence on the Turkana jet. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 149, 1890-1912, https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4487

Harris, Bethan L. and Tailleux, Rémi (2018), Assessment of algorithms for computing moist available potential energy. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 144, 1501-1510, https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3297