Current Post: Reader

Room Number: 2.41

Telephone: 01603 593733 (+44 1603 593733)

Fax: 01603 591327 (+44 1603 591327)

Email: a.j.matthews@uea.ac.uk

Web Page: Personal web page

Publications: EPrints Digital Repository

Posts of Special Responsibility:

• Chair of UG Examining Board

PhD Studentships Available   Tropical ocean-atmosphere interactions in the Indian Ocean: Seaglider observations and ocean modelling

Research Interests

My research interests are in meteorology and oceanography, on both weather and climate time scales, through observational data analysis and computer modelling. These include:

• The Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO). This is the major source of weather variability in the tropical atmosphere and ocean on week-to-week time scales. In addition to research on basic MJO processes, we now issue a daily operational MJO forecast.
• Scale interactions in the climate system, including the Cascade project: very high-resolution modelling of the scale interactions between convection and atmospheric dynamics that lie at the heart of understanding tropical weather and climate.
• 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.
• 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.

Further details can be found at my personal page.



Biography

After an undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences (Cambridge) and an M.Sc. in Atmospheric Sciences (UEA), I completed my Ph.D. in Meteorology at Reading. This was followed by postdoctoral work at Reading, and University of Colorado -- NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory, and a Research Fellowship at the CRC for Southern Hemisphere Meteorology at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. In 1999 I was appointed to a joint position in the School of Environmental Sciences and the School of Mathematics at University of East Anglia, where I am now a Reader.

Significant Publications

• Hicks, P.D., Matthews, A.J., Cooker, M.J. (2010) Triggering of a volcanic dome collapse by rainwater infiltration. J. Geophys. Res., 115, B09212, doi:10.1029/2009JB006831.
• Webber, B.G.M., Matthews, A.J. and Heywood, K.J. (2010) A dynamical ocean feedback mechanism for the Madden-Julian Oscillation. Quart. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc., 136, 740-754. doi: 10.1002/qj.604.
• Matthews, A.J. (2008) Primary and successive events in the Madden-Julian Oscillation. Quart. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc., 134, 439-453. doi: 10.1002/qj.224
• Matthews, A.J., Singhruck, P. and Heywood, K.J. (2007) Deep ocean impact of a Madden-Julian oscillation observed by Argo floats. Science 318, 1765-1769. doi: 10.1126/science.1147312

• Pohl, B., and A. J. Matthews (2007). Observed changes in the lifetime and amplitude of the Madden-Julian oscillation associated with interannual ENSO sea surface temperature anomalies. J. Climate., 20, 2659-2674. doi: 10.1175/JCLI4230.1

• Matthews, A. J., (2004). Intraseasonal variability over tropical Africa during northern summer. J. Climate, 17, 2427-2440 doi: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<2427:IVOTAD>2.0.CO;2

• Matthews, A. J., (2004). The atmospheric response to observed intraseasonal tropical sea surface temperature anomalies. Geophys. Res. Lett., 31(14), L14107, doi: 10.1029/2004GL020474.

• Matthews, A. J., B. J. Hoskins, and M. Masutani, (2004). The global response to tropical heating in the Madden-Julian Oscillation during northern winter Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 130, 1991-2011, doi: 10.1256/qj.02.123.
• Matthews, A. J., and J. Barclay, (2004). A thermodynamical model for rainfall-triggered volcanic dome collapse. Geophys. Res. Lett., 31(5), L05614, doi:10.1029/2003GL019310.

• Matthews, A. J., J. Barclay, S. Carn, G. Thompson, J. Alexander, R. Herd, and C. Williams, (2002). Rainfall-induced volcanic activity on Montserrat. Geophys. Res. Lett., 29(13), 1644, doi:10.1029/2002GL014863.

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