David MacLeod

My research focus is climate risk: understanding weather and climate variability and its impacts. I work on forecast horizons from days to decades ahead.

A key part of my work is evaluation and experimentation with initialised climate models. This supports understanding of the drivers of extreme meteorological events, and the degree to which they can be predicted.

This scientific work forms a cornerstone of my work supporting international humanitarian organisations to use forecasts for anticipatory action.

To communicate key ideas to non-scientific partners (and in my teaching) I also use and design "serious games". These are play-orientated activities designed to interactively explore concepts and build core understanding in an engaging way.