Current Post: Senior Research Associate

Room Number: 2.40

Telephone: 01603 591424 (+44 1603 591424)

Fax: 01603 591327 (+44 1603 591327)

Email: g.n.petersen@uea.ac.uk

Research Interests

Weather and climate at mid-latitudes and in the Arctic; orography impact on airflow, e.g. in the surroundings of Greenland; uncertainty in weather forecasting.

Biography

I completed a PhD in dynamical meteorology, studying the impact of Greenland on airflow in the Northern Hemisphere, at the University of Oslo, Norway. I then moved to England and worked as a research fellow at the Department of Meteorology, University of Reading for two years. My project was on the predictability of weather, focusing on the impact of targeted observations during a field campaign, A-TReC, in 2003. I arrived in Norwich in June 2006 to work with Ian Renfrew on the Greenland Flow Distortion Experiment (GFDex).

Significant Publications

Petersen, G. N. and A. J. Thorpe, (2006) The impact on weather forecast of targeted observations during A-TReC. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., in press.

Thorpe, A. J. and G. N. Petersen, (2006) Predictability and targeted observations, in Predictability of weather and climate, ed. Tim Palmer and Renate Hagedorn, doi: 10.2277/0521848822.

Petersen, G. N., H. Ólafsson, and J. E. Kristjánsson, (2005) The effect of upstream wind direction on atmospheric flow in the vicinity of a large mountain. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 131, 1113-1128, doi: 10.1256/qj.04.01.

Petersen, G. N., J. E. Kristjánsson, and H. Ólafsson, (2004) Numerical simulations of Greenland´s impact on the Northern Hemisphere winter circulation. Tellus A, 56, 102-111, doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0870.2004.00047.x.

Petersen, G. N., H. Ólafsson, and J. E. Kristjánsson, (2003) Flow in the lee of idealized mountains and Greenland. J. Atmos. Sci., 60, 2183-2195