Dr. Emma L Robinson

Emma joined UKCEH in January 2012 as a Research Associate. She now works in the Hydro-climate risks science area as a land-surface modeller.

Projects have involved global, regional and site runs of the JULES model, as well as model intercomparisons and development of driving data sets. She is currently the acting chair of the JULES Science and Applications committee, and current projects include: assessing inter- and intra-seasonal variability of UK meteorology (UK-SCAPE/SPEED); developing a down-scaled and bias-corrected version of UKCP18 for modelling use (UK-SCAPE/SPEED); improving representation of interception and implementing multi-source evaporation scheme in JULES (Hydro-JULES); calculating potential evaporation for modelling past and future climates (Hydro-JULES); and, ongoing support of the CHESS data set.

She was involved in creating and publishing the CHESS-met and CHESS-SCAPE data sets, which contain UK 1km resolution historical and future meteorological data, and their use to drive JULES. She developed new ancillary data for CHESS, including soil parameters.

Emma is proficient in python and fortran, and has developed and run the JULES land surface model. She has also been trained to run UM.

Prior to joining UKCEH, she had several years of experience in data analysis and modelling for gravitational wave detection.