Summer projects 2006

As part of the course, students are required to complete a dissertation on a project established in consultation with a staff member. The dissertation should be roughly 10 000 words in length and must be handed in no later than 11 August 2006. Students are also required to present their work in a 10-minute seminar which will contribute to the final dissertation mark.

The 10 weeks preceding the hand-in date will be exclusively devoted to project work. However, students are encouraged to begin thinking about, researching and planning their project as soon as they have settled on a topic.

Below is a list of suggested topics. Students are encouraged to propose alternative topics based on their own interests and career objectives.

The December 1999 storms in ECMWF Re-Analysis data.
Impact of the North Atlantic Oscillation on Ireland (or country of your choice).
Impact of the El Nino/Southern Oscillation on Ireland (or country of your choice).
The distribution of surface winds under strong maritime cyclones.
Trends in cloudiness over Ireland and solar dimming.
Verification of model forecasts against Valentia soundings.
A wind climatology for Ireland.
Numerical solution of the shallow water equations.
Post-processing and web-based visualisation of meteorological forecasts.
The anomalous tropical hurricane season of 2005.

Here is a resource page for students supervised by R. Caballero in 2006