From April 2017 I am also the Service Manager for the new 4-year EU Copernicus-funded Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) Data Rescue Service (C3S DRS) which brings together the Met Office and 13 other subcontracted partners to provide international leadership in the fields of terrestrial and marine data rescue. Building upon existing WMO and international data rescue activities and standards and interlinked closely with ACRE (see ACRE and C3S DRS regional data rescue foci in the schematic below), the Service will construct a managed, integrated, state-of-the-art repository (portal and registry) of information about past, current and planned data rescue projects. It will establish well-defined and quality-controlled procedures for registering current and/or planned data rescue activities and provide access to information about data variables, metadata, data images (linked to ACRE-MERIT: http://www.charlestodd.net/MERIT/), digitisation status and data quality associated with registered activities. This will include consolidating paper archives through to imaging data formatting and quality control plus visualisation of outputs and products, whilst piloting the use of new tools, techniques and approaches in data digitisation. It will also track and update this information for, and provide new terrestrial and marine observations to, C3S via the Copernicus Data Store (CDS).The C3S Data Rescue Service has funding support for data rescue activities and the testing of new data rescue tools and procedures in three new/evolving ACRE regional data rescue regions in the Southern Hemisphere centring on Argentina, South Africa and the higher latitude Pacific sector of the Antarctic continent, which interlink with the new ACRE Australia regional focus.

I lead and coordinate all of the activities of the International Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth (ACRE) initiative (http://www.met-acre.net/). This involves undertaking and facilitating historical global surface terrestrial and marine weather data recovery, imaging and digitisation, ensuring that these data are fed into the international repositories responsible for agglomerating such material, seeing that these repositories provide the best quality and quantity of weather observations for assimilation into all historical and contemporary global reanalyses or reconstructions of 4D weather, and ensuring that reanalyses outputs feed seamlessly into the needs of climate applications, impacts and extremes communities worldwide. Under the global ACRE umbrella, I am responsible for setting up specific regional data rescue foci with ACRE Chile, ACRE Pacific, ACRE Canada, ACRE Japan, ACRE SE Asia, ACRE Arctic, ACRE Antarctica, ACRE Oceans, ACRE Australia, ACRE South Africa, ACRE Argentina and ACRE China.

Improved the climatic record with which to assess the roles of natural climate variability and human-induced climatic change on severe storms across the UK and Europe. Led the development of new versions of the Hadley Centre monthly global MSLP data set HadSLP2 back to 1850, and a near-real time HadSLP2r product (http://www.hadobs.com/). Led the development of a daily MSLP product over the North Atlantic-European region back to 1850 for the EC-funded FP5 EMULATE project.

Undertook research into climatic variability and change, with particular emphasis on the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon, low frequency climatic fluctuations, the planetary monsoon system, palaeoclimatic reconstructions and historical data analysis.Provided coordination of climatic variability and change research being undertaken at CSIRO DAR (as part of the Climate Change Research Program (CCRP) with the support of funding from the Governments of Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia) that was examining regional climatic patterns and greenhouse scenarios in the northern Australian region - this involved overseeing of annual reports and initiating 6 monthly visits to the States to liaise and present the latest research to both scientific and public meetings, various Government Departments University groups and consortiums.

Undertook research into climatic variability and change, with particular emphasis on the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon, low frequency climatic fluctuations, the planetary monsoon system, palaeoclimatic reconstructions and historical data analysis.Provided coordination of climatic variability and change research being undertaken at CSIRO DAR (as part of the Climate Change Research Program (CCRP) with the support of funding from the Governments of Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia) that was examining regional climatic patterns and greenhouse scenarios in the northern Australian region - this involved overseeing of annual reports and initiating 6 monthly visits to the States to liaise and present the latest research to both scientific and public meetings, various Government Departments University groups and consortiums.

Undertook research into climatic variability and change, with particular emphasis on the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon, low frequency climatic fluctuations, the planetary monsoon system, palaeoclimatic reconstructions and historical data analysis.Provided coordination of climatic variability and change research being undertaken at CSIRO DAR (as part of the Climate Change Research Program (CCRP) with the support of funding from the Governments of Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia) that was examining regional climatic patterns and greenhouse scenarios in the northern Australian region - this involved overseeing of annual reports and initiating 6 monthly visits to the States to liaise and present the latest research to both scientific and public meetings, various Government Departments University groups and consortiums.

Used conventional meteorological and oceanographic data and satellite imagery to investigate ocean-atmosphere processes critical to understanding ENSO responses in low-latitude Australasia and examined their predictive potential.Investigatied the seasonal cycle of the oceanic heat budget in northern Australian waters, with possible implications for understanding oceanic modulation of ENSO events in Australasia.Investigated associations between ENSO and climatic fluctuations over the Australian region during the period of meteorological record.

Tutoring and demonstrating in climatology and remote sensing