D. N. Walters

David Walters leads the Met Office Weather Science Research to Operations (R2O) team, who develop, deliver and coordinate upgrades to the Met Office's operational Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) suite and coordinate and improve the Met Office's wider R2O activity. Between 2010 and 2017, David managed the Global Atmospheric Model Development group, responsible for developing global configurations of the Unified Model for use across all weather and climate timescales. David's personal research interests include the role of resolution in global atmospheric model performance and the extension of short-range NWP forecasts to include increased Earth system complexity such as additional land-surface processes, ocean-atmosphere coupling and the inclusion of chemistry and aerosols.