Scientist
Research, Earth System Assimilation, Coupled Assimilation
Summary:
Peter Weston is working on the assimilation of microwave sounder radiances. His current research topics include assimilating microwave temperature sounding channels in the presence of cloud and precipitation (all sky assimilation) and accounting for correlated observation errors.
Professional interests:
- Microwave radiance assimilation
- Use of satellite radiances in cloud and precipitation
- Diagnosis and specification of observation error statistics
- Monitoring the data quality of active microwave instruments
Career background:
2016-present: EUMETSAT research fellow at ECMWF working on the assimilation of microwave sounder radiances
2010-2016: Scientist at UK Met Office working on the assimilation of infrared sounder radiances
2005-2009: Studied for an MMath at the University of Oxford
- 2024
- David Fairbairn, Patricia de Rosnay, Peter Weston (January 2024) Evaluation of an Adaptive Soil Moisture Bias Correction Approach in the ECMWF Land Data Assimilation System, Remote Sensing. DOI: 10.3390/rs16030493
- Christoph Herbert, Patricia de Rosnay, Peter Weston, David Fairbairn (July 2024) Towards unified land data assimilation at ECMWF: Soil and snow temperature analysis in the SEKF, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1002/qj.4808
- 2023
- David Fairbairn, Patricia De Rosnay, Peter Weston (December 2023) Evaluation of an Adaptive Soil Moisture Bias Correction Approach in the ECMWF Land Data Assimilation System. DOI: 10.20944/preprints202312.0259.v1
- 2022
- (May 2022) Assimilation of AMSU-A in All-Sky Conditions, Monthly Weather Review. DOI: 10.1175/mwr-d-21-0273.1
- Peter Weston, Patricia de Rosnay (May 2022) Q3 2021: Operations Service Report, Contract Report for ESA SMOS ESL contract 4000130567/20/I-BG. DOI: 10.21957/5j2zpdm6v
- Peter Weston, Patricia de Rosnay (May 2022) Q4 2021: Operations Service Report, Contract Report for ESA SMOS ESL contract 4000130567/20/I-BG. DOI: 10.21957/cbh822cej
- Peter Weston, Patricia de Rosnay (May 2022) Q1 2022: Operations Service Report, Contract Report for ESA SMOS ESL contract 4000130567/20/I-BG. DOI: 10.21957/hbtm1mmc4
- Peter Weston, Patricia de Rosnay (May 2022) Annual SMOS brightness temperature monitoring report 2020/21, Contract Report for ESA SMOS ESL contract 4000130567/20/I-BG. DOI: 10.21957/lc3zcuvgn
- Patricia de Rosnay, Philip Browne, Eric de Boisséson, David Fairbairn, Yoichi Hirahara, Kenta Ochi, Dinand Schepers, Peter Weston, Hao Zuo, Magdalena Alonso‐Balmaseda, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Massimo Bonavita, Niels Borman, Andy Brown, Marcin Chrust, Mohamed Dahoui, Giovanna Chiara, Stephen English, Alan Geer, Sean Healy, Hans Hersbach, Patrick Laloyaux, Linus Magnusson, Sébastien Massart, Anthony McNally, Florian Pappenberger, Florence Rabier (July 2022) Coupled data assimilation at ECMWF: current status, challenges and future developments, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1002/qj.4330
- 2021
- Peter Weston, Patricia de Rosnay (October 2021) SMOS Brightness Temperature Monitoring Quality Control Review and Enhancements, Remote Sensing. DOI: 10.3390/rs13204081
- (April 2021) Statistical approaches to assimilate ASCAT soil moisture information—I. Methodologies and first assessment, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1002/qj.3997
- Peter Weston, Patricia de Rosnay (January 2021) Quarter 4 2020: Operations Service Report, ESA Contract Report. DOI: 10.21957/ak85dkm53
- Peter Weston, Patricia de Rosnay (January 2021) Annual SMOS brightness temperature monitoring report, ESA Contract Report. DOI: 10.21957/kbzamln6f
- Peter Weston, Patricia de Rosnay (April 2021) Quarter 1 2021: Operations Service Report, ESA Contract Report. DOI: 10.21957/bp7d12ws
- Peter Weston, Patricia de Rosnay (July 2021) Quarter 2 2021: Operations Service Report, ESA Contract Report. DOI: 10.21957/1s1hcs6bl
- Peter Weston, Patricia de Rosnay, Stephen English (May 2021) GRDS test-bed report, ESA Contract Report. DOI: 10.21957/8kv6wj087
- David I. Duncan, Niels Bormann, Alan Geer, Peter Weston (October 2021) Assimilation of AMSU-A in All-sky Conditions, EUMETSAT/ECMWF Fellowship Programme Research Report. DOI: 10.21957/b3qsdrf2l
- 2020
- Peter Weston, Patricia de Rosnay (October 2020) Quality Control Plan for Brightness Temperature Modelling, ESA Contract Report n. SMOS ESL contract 4000130567/20/I-BG. DOI: 10.21957/kfuqck834
- Peter Weston, Patricia de Rosnay, Stephen English (November 2020) GRDS test-bed plan, ESA Contract Report. DOI: 10.21957/h18ip7rud
- 2019
- Peter Weston, Alan Geer, Niels Bormann (September 2019) Investigations into the assimilation of AMSU-A in the presence of cloud and precipitation, EUMETSAT/ECMWF Fellowship Programme Research Report. DOI: 10.21957/ewahn9ce
- Alan Geer, Niels Bormann, Katrin Lonitz, Peter Weston, Richard Forbes, Stephen English (November 2019) Recent progress in all‑sky radiance assimilation, ECMWF Newsletter, issue 161, pp. 20-25. DOI: 10.21957/mb31c8ag74
- Patricia de Rosnay, Peter Weston (December 2019) SMOS long term assessment based on re-analyses: strategy and work plan, ESA Contract Report. DOI: 10.21957/lqpjq6e1y
- 2018
- Geer A.J., Lonitz K., Weston P., Kazumori M., Okamoto K., Zhu Y., Liu E.H., Collard A., Bell W., Migliorini S., Chambon P., Fourrié N., Kim M.-J., Köpken-Watts C., Schraff C. (September 2018) All-sky satellite data assimilation at operational weather forecasting centres, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1002/qj.3202
- Janjić T., Bormann N., Bocquet M., Carton J.A., Cohn S.E., Dance S.L., Losa S.N., Nichols N.K., Potthast R., Waller J.A., Weston P. (September 2018) On the representation error in data assimilation, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1002/qj.3130
- 2017
- Bennitt G.V., Johnson H.R., Weston P.P., Jones J., Pottiaux E. (September 2017) An assessment of ground-based GNSS Zenith Total Delay observation errors and their correlations using the Met Office UKV model, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1002/qj.3097
- 2014
- Weston P.P., Bell W., Eyre J.R. (September 2014) Accounting for correlated error in the assimilation of high-resolution sounder data, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1002/qj.2306
- Eyre J.R., Weston P.P. (September 2014) The impact of the temporal spacing of observations on analysis errors in an idealised data assimilation system, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1002/qj.2227
Contact Details:
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