Dr Lewis Ireland

Areas of expertise

• Weather pattern generation and post-processing
• High-impact weather events

Publications by Dr Lewis Ireland

Current activities

Lewis' main interests are related to the health impacts of weather and climate. Recent research involves the development of a medium-range weather pattern forecasting tool prototype for South Africa, to explore heat-health medium-range impact-based forecasting. This includes generating and identifying weather patterns that heighten the risk of high-impact heatwaves and conducting assessment of temperature-related indices and their ability to predict such events.

Career background

Before joining the Met Office in November 2021, Lewis obtained his PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Exeter in 2018 and was an Astrophysics Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Exeter, where he published several lead-authored peer-reviewed articles covering the evolutionary impact of heat transport in the interior of stars and the interaction between young stars and their circumstellar disks. He also completed a Data Science Fellowship at the Science to Data Science (S2DS) bootcamp in 2018, acquiring knowledge of data science commercial tools and techniques.