Publications
2026 #
An improved approach to identifying tropical cyclones in model data using the cyclone phase space: warm core, symmetric, and intensifying
Leo Saffin, Kevin Hodges, Stella Bourdin, Michael Fiorino, John Methven, Pier Luigi Vidale, and Alexander J Baker
Monthly Weather Review, Submitted
A synoptic overview of the EUREC\(^4\)A field campaign
Leo Saffin, Richard Jones, Juliane Schwendike, Arlene Laing, Kathy-Ann Caesar and etc.
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, In Review
2025 #
HuracanPy: A Python package for reading and analysing cyclone tracks
Stella Bourdin and Leo Saffin
Journal of Open Source Software
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2024 #
Large Uncertainties When Diagnosing the “Eddy Feedback Parameter” and Its Role in the Signal-To-Noise Paradox
Leo Saffin, Christine M. McKenna, Rémy Bonnet, and Amanda C. Maycock
Geophysical Research Letters
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2023 #
Kilometer-Scale Simulations of Trade-Wind Cumulus Capture Processes of Mesoscale Organization
Leo Saffin, Adrian Lock, Lorenzo Tomassini, Alan Blyth, Steven Böing, Leif Denby, and John Marsham
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
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2022 #
Climate Modeling in Low Precision: Effects of Both Deterministic and Stochastic Rounding
E. Adam Paxton, Matthew Chantry, Milan Klöwer, Leo Saffin, and Tim Palmer
Journal of Climate
2021 #
Circulation conservation in the outflow of warm conveyor belts and consequences for Rossby wave evolution
Leo Saffin, John Methven, Jake Bland, Ben Harvey, and Claudio Sanchez
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
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EUREC\(^4\)A
Bjorn Stevens, Sandrine Bony, David Farrell, Felix Ament, Alan Blyth, Christopher Fairall, Johannes Karstensen, Patricia K. Quinn, Sabrina Speich, and etc.
Earth System Science Data \
2020 #
Reduced‐precision parametrization: lessons from an intermediate‐complexity atmospheric model
Leo Saffin, Sam Hatfield, Peter Düben, and Tim Palmer
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
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2017 #
Processes Maintaining Tropopause Sharpness in Numerical Models
Leo Saffin, Suzanne L. Gray, John Methven, and Keith D. Williams
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
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Linking weather forecast errors with the processes responsible
Leo Saffin
PhD Thesis
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2016 #
The non‐conservation of potential vorticity by a dynamical core compared with the effects of parametrized physical processes
Leo Saffin, John Methven, and Suzanne L. Gray
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
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