Dr Jeremy Price

Areas of expertise

• Boundary layer meteorology and observations, including clouds, fog, and stable boundary layers

• Designing and running observational campaigns

Publications by Jeremy Price

Current activities

Jeremy works as a Scientific Manager in Observation Based Research, located at their out-station in Cardington, Bedfordshire. Currently his responsibilities are:

• Maintaining and developing the field site at Cardington;
• Running the observational boundary layer research programme;
• Managing instrument development projects;
• Fostering collaboration with other research institutes.

Specific research areas:

• Managing the observational component of LANFEX, a field experiment to examine the formation and evolution of fog in a region of hilly terrain;
• Fog formation, evolution and dissipation, with an interest in correctly predicting stability and turbulence in radiation fog;
• Boundary layer clouds. In particular, stratus, stratocumulus, and cumulus spreading into stratocumulus. Studying cloud evolution and the relation between humidity distributions and cloud fraction;
• Stable boundary layers;
• Instrument development, including turbulence probes, and a cloud droplet probe for use on a tethered balloon system;
• Development of a large autonomous portable meteorological observing station based around a 30m tower using a full suite of research quality measurements capable of continuous operation using its own power source.

Career background

• PhD in Atmospheric physics studying stratosphere-troposphere exchange in cut-off-low systems;
• Joined Met Office in 1995, as a Senior Scientific Officer based at Cardington to study stratocumulus cloud;
• Moved to Atmospheric Processes and Parametrizations in 2003 working on a new cloud parametrization scheme (PC2);
• Returned to Cardington Met Research Unit in 2005 to become the new Principal Meteorological Officer.