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My research interests are in meteorology and oceanography, on weather and climate time scales, through observational data analysis and numerical modelling:
- The Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), the major source of weather variability in the tropical atmosphere and ocean on week-to-week time scales. MJO processes, and operational MJO forecast.
- We have recently taken part in the CINDY/DYNAMO field experiment to investigate the triggering of the MJO, where we deployed a Seaglider in the Indian Ocean.
- A Pinch of Salt at the Royal Society Exhibition
- Scale interactions in the climate system, including the Cascade project: very high-resolution modelling of the scale interactions between convection and atmospheric dynamics.
- The West African monsoon, as part of the AMMA project.
- Triggering of volcanic activity by intense rainfall, as part of a project on the current eruption (1995-present) at the Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat. Volcanoes@UEA.
- South Pacific Convergence Zone (SPCZ)
- Tropical-extratropical interactions in the atmosphere
- Tropical Atlantic variability and teleconnections with the global climate.
- Normal modes of the atmosphere.
- Earth system science, study of the past climate of the Earth.
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People in my research group and in the wider UEA Met/Ocean/Climate group
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Associate editor for the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.

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Triggering of rainfall over West Africa by the MJO. Cold temperatures in the mid-troposphere are spread westward over Africa by equatorial Rossby waves forced by the suppressed phase of the MJO in a simulation with the UK Met Office climate model. These cold temperatures destabilise the atmosphere and trigger convection in the West African monsoon.
More information: Lavender SL, Matthews AJ, 2009: Response of the West African monsoon to the Madden-Julian Oscillation. J. Climate, 22, 4097-4116.

Five most recent publications

	Peatman SC, Matthews AJ, Stevens DP, 2013: Propagation of the Madden-Julian Oscillation through the Maritime Continent and scale interaction with the diurnal cycle of precipitation. Quart. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc., 139, published online, doi: 10.1002/qj/2161.	Abstract
	Dawson A, Matthews AJ, Stevens DP, Roberts MJ, Vidale PL, 2013: Importance of oceanic resolution and mean state on the extra-tropical response to El Nino in a matrix of coupled models. Climate Dyn., published online, doi: 10.1007/s00382-012-1518-6.	Abstract
	Matthews AJ, 2012: A multiscale framework for the origin and variability of the South Pacific Convergence Zone. Quart. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc., 138, 1165-1178.	Abstract
	Webber BGM, Stevens DP, Matthews AJ, Heywood KJ, 2012: Dynamical ocean forcing of the Madden-Julian Oscillation at lead times of up to five months. J. Climate, 25, 2824-2842.	Abstract
	Webber BGM, Matthews AJ, Heywood KJ, Stevens DP, 2012: Ocean Rossby waves as a triggering mechanism for primary Madden-Julian events. Quart. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc., 138, 514-527.	Abstract

Teaching and administration I teach on several modules in the School of Environmental Sciences and School of Mathematics, including ENV-1A61 Mathematics for Scientists I, ENV-2A21 Mathematics for Scientists III, ENV-2A24 (ENV-2A24K) Meteorology II (with Fieldcourse), MTH-3D52 (MTH-MD52) Dynamical Meteorology (with Advanced Topics). Chair of Examiners for Natural Sciences.

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