Senior Scientific Software Engineer
Research Department, Integrated Forecast Systems Section, System Design Group
Professional interests:
- Coupled ocean-atmosphere-climate modelling
- Energy efficient computing
- Open-source data analysis software
Career background:
Professional experience
- 2017-present: Scientist, ECMWF.
- 2015-2017: Senior Research Computing Associate, Department of Physics, University of Oxford.
- 2014-2015: Senior Oceanographer, Fugro GEOS Ltd.
- 2011-2014: Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Department of Physics, University of Oxford.
Education
- 2011: PhD Mathematics, University of East Anglia.
- 2007: BSc Hons Meteorology and Oceanography, University of East Anglia.
- 2021
- Simon T. K. Lang, Andrew Dawson, Michail Diamantakis, Peter Dueben, Samuel Hatfield, Martin Leutbecher, Tim Palmer, Fernando Prates, Christopher D. Roberts, Irina Sandu, Nils Wedi (October 2021) More accuracy with less precision, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society n. 741, pp. 4358-4370. DOI: 10.1002/qj.4181
- 2020
- Chris Roberts, Antje Weisheimer, Stephanie Johnson, Timothy Stockdale, Magdalena A. Balmaseda, Philip Browne, Andrew Dawson, Martin Leutbecher, Frederic Vitart (January 2020) Reduced-resolution ocean configurations for efficient testing with the ECMWF coupled model, ECMWF Technical Memoranda n. 858. DOI: 10.21957/6fz18mn9r
- Joe McNorton, Nicolas Bousserez, Anna Agustí-Panareda, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Margarita Choulga, Andrew Dawson, Richard Engelen, Zak Kiping, Simon Lang (January 2020) Representing Model Uncertainty for Global Atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> Flux Inversions Using ECMWF-IFS-46R1. DOI: 10.5194/gmd-2019-314
- Joe McNorton, Nicolas Bousserez, Anna Agustí-Panareda, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Margarita Choulga, Andrew Dawson, Richard Engelen, Zak Kiping, Simon Lang (January 2020) Supplementary material to "Representing Model Uncertainty for Global Atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> Flux Inversions Using ECMWF-IFS-46R1". DOI: 10.5194/gmd-2019-314-supplement
- Joe R. McNorton, Nicolas Bousserez, Anna Agustí-Panareda, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Margarita Choulga, Andrew Dawson, Richard Engelen, Zak Kipling, Simon Lang (May 2020) Representing model uncertainty for global atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> flux inversions using ECMWF-IFS-46R1, Geoscientific Model Development n. 5, pp. 2297-2313. DOI: 10.5194/gmd-13-2297-2020
- 2019
- Philip Browne, Patricia de Rosnay, Hao Zuo, Andrew Bennett, Andrew Dawson (January 2019) Weakly Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere Data Assimilation in the ECMWF NWP System, Remote Sensing n. 3, pp. 234. DOI: 10.3390/rs11030234
- Philip Browne, Patricia de Rosnay, Hao Zuo, Andrew Bennett, Andrew Dawson (January 2019) Weakly coupled ocean-atmosphere data assimilation in the ECMWF NWP system, ECMWF Technical Memorandum n. 836. DOI: 10.21957/eqe8rx02
- 2018
- Hannah M. Christensen, Andrew Dawson, Christopher E. Holloway (August 2018) Forcing Single‐Column Models Using High‐Resolution Model Simulations, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. DOI: 10.1029/2017MS001189
- Andrew Dawson, Peter D. Düben, David A. MacLeod, Tim N. Palmer (October 2018) Reliable low precision simulations in land surface models, Climate Dynamics. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-017-4034-x
- 2017
- Peter D. Düben, Andrew Dawson (March 2017) An approach to secure weather and climate models against hardware faults, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. DOI: 10.1002/2016MS000816
- Peter D. Düben, Aneesh Subramanian, Andrew Dawson, T. N. Palmer (March 2017) A study of reduced numerical precision to make superparameterization more competitive using a hardware emulator in the OpenIFS model, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. DOI: 10.1002/2016MS000862
- Andrew Dawson, Peter D. Düben (June 2017) rpe v5: an emulator for reduced floating-point precision in large numerical simulations, Geoscientific Model Development n. 6, pp. 2221-2230. DOI: 10.5194/gmd-10-2221-2017
- Andrew Dawson (March 2017) short comment in reply to reviewer 2. DOI: 10.5194/gmd-2016-247-AC1
- 2016
- (April 2016) eofs: A Library for EOF Analysis of Meteorological, Oceanographic, and Climate Data, Journal of Open Research Software. DOI: 10.5334/jors.122
- Andrew Dawson (August 2016) Windspharm: A High-Level Library for Global Wind Field Computations Using Spherical Harmonics, Journal of Open Research Software. DOI: 10.5334/jors.129
- Andrew Dawson, Peter Düben (November 2016) rpe v5: An emulator for reduced floating-point precision in large numerical simulations. DOI: 10.5194/gmd-2016-247
- 2014
- Andrew Dawson, T. N. Palmer (July 2014) Simulating weather regimes: impact of model resolution and stochastic parameterization, Clim Dyn. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2238-x
- 2012
- Andrew Dawson, Adrian J. Matthews, David P. Stevens, Malcolm J. Roberts, Pier Luigi Vidale (September 2012) Importance of oceanic resolution and mean state on the extra-tropical response to El Niño in a matrix of coupled models, Clim Dyn. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1518-6
- A. Dawson, T. N. Palmer, S. Corti (November 2012) Simulating regime structures in weather and climate prediction models, Geophys. Res. Lett.. DOI: 10.1029/2012gl053284
- 2010
- Andrew Dawson, Adrian J. Matthews, David P. Stevens (June 2010) Rossby wave dynamics of the North Pacific extra-tropical response to El Niño: importance of the basic state in coupled GCMs, Clim Dyn. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0854-7
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