Adrian Mark Tompkins

Permanent Scientific Staff
Senior Research Scientist
Adrian Mark Tompkins
Earth System Physics
+39 040 2240 579
tompkins@ictp.it
+39 040 2240 579
tompkins@ictp.it
SISSA-251
http://users.ictp.it/~tompkins
0000-0003-0975-6691

Adrian Mark Tompkins

I am a research scientist in the Earth System Physics section of ICTP.

My research interests focus on cloud and convection dynamics and physics, and their representation in weather forecast and climate models, and how the organisation of convection in the tropics may impact climate sensitivity.

I am a research scientist in the Earth System Physics section of ICTP.

My research interests focus on cloud and convection dynamics and physics, and their representation in weather forecast and climate models, and how the organisation of convection in the tropics may impact climate sensitivity.

Regarding the mandate of ICTP, I am particularly concerned with how weather prediction and climate models can be better applied in developing countries. I have taught at over 35 schools, workshops and training events in Africa, Asia and C/S America in the past 13 years, being the main director/organiser of over 25 of these events in over 12 African countries. In recent years, these have also focussed on training of the use of open-access tools and datasets, particularly those available within the Copernicus climate services framework, hosted and operated by my previous employer ECMWF.

More recently, my research has branched in climate applications of particular relevance to Africa, mostly in the area of health. I am the lead developer of a open-source, regional dynamical malaria transmission model that accounts for climate and population and also a (highly efficient!) agent-based model for cyclic human mobility. If you would like to partner me with projects in this area, please get in touch.

I am a member of the technical advisory group of the malaria section of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH). I also served as a member on the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Working Group on sub-Seasonal to Interdecadal Prediction (WGSIP) from 2012 to 2019 and as member and then co-chair of the scientific advisory committee (SAC) of the West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) since its inception

Publications

Journal article
2016
Health, environmental change and adaptive capacity; mapping, examining and anticipating future risks of water-related vector-borne diseases in Eastern Africa
Geospatial Health (2016)
Taylor, D. | Kienberger, S. | Malone, J.B. | Tompkins, A.M.
Journal article
2015
Generalizing cloud overlap treatment to include the effect of wind shear
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences (2015)
Di Giuseppe, F. | Tompkins, A.M.
Journal article
2015
A generalized deforestation and land-use change scenario generator for use in climate modelling studies
PLoS ONE (2015)
Tompkins, A.M. | Caporaso, L. | Biondi, R. | Bell, J.P.
Journal article
2015
Potential predictability of malaria in Africa using ECMWF monthly and seasonal climate forecasts
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology (2015)
Tompkins, A.M. | di Giuseppe, F.
Journal article
2015
A process-based investigation into the impact of the Congo basin deforestation on surface climate
Journal of Geophysical Research (2015)
Bell, J.P. | Tompkins, A.M. | Bouka-Biona, C. | Sanda, I.S.
Journal article
2015
An assessment of upper troposphere and lower stratosphere water vapor in MERRA, MERRA2, and ECMWF reanalyses using Aura MLS observations
Journal of Geophysical Research (2015)
Jiang, J.H. | Su, H. | Zhai, C. | Wu, L. | Minschwaner, K. | Molod, A.M. | Tompkins, A.M.
Journal article
2015
An interpretation of cloud overlap statistics
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences (2015)
Tompkins, A.M. | Di Giuseppe, F.
Journal article
2015
Comparison of ECMWF analysis and forecast humidity data with CARIBIC upper troposphere and lower stratosphere observations
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society (2015)
Dyroff, C. | Zahn, A. | Christner, E. | Forbes, R. | Tompkins, A.M. | van Velthoven, P.F.J.
Journal article
2014
Impact of climate change on global malaria distribution
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2014)
Caminade, C. | Kovats, S. | Rocklov, J. | Tompkins, A.M. | Morse, A.P. | Colón-González, F.J. | Stenlund, H. | Martens, P. | Lloyd, S.J.
Journal article
2014
Multisectoral climate impact hotspots in a warming world
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2014)
Piontek, F. | Müller, C. | Pugh, T.A.M. | Clark, D.B. | Deryng, D. | Elliott, J. | De Jesus Colón González, F. | Flörke, M. | Folberth, C. | Franssen, W. | Frieler, K. | Friend, A.D. | Gosling, S.N. | Hemming, D. ...
Journal article
2013
A regional-scale, high resolution dynamical malaria model that accounts for population density, climate and surface hydrology
Malaria Journal (2013)
Tompkins, A.M. | Ermert, V.
Journal article
2013
Relative importance of climatic, geographic and socio-economic determinants of malaria in Malawi
Malaria Journal (2013)
Lowe, R. | Chirombo, J. | Tompkins, A.M.
Journal article
2013
A rainfall calibration methodology for impacts modelling based on spatial mapping
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society (2013)
Di Giuseppe, F. | Molteni, F. | Tompkins, A.M.
Journal article
2012
Sensitivity of seasonal climate and diurnal precipitation over Central America to land and sea surface schemes in RegCM4
Climate Research (2012)
Diro, G.T. | Rauscher, S.A. | Giorgi, F. | Tompkins, A.M.
Journal article
2012
Using CloudSat cloud retrievals to differentiate satellite-derived rainfall products over West Africa
Journal of Hydrometeorology (2012)
Tompkins, A.M. | Adebiyi, A.A.
Journal article
2012
Capacity building in meteorological education and research-lessons learned and future prospects
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (2012)
Tompkins, A.M. | Parker, D.J. | Danour, S. | Amekudzi, L. | Bain, C.L. | Dominguez, A. | Douglas, M.W. | Fink, A.H. | Grimes, D.I.F. | Hobby, M. | Knippertz, P. | Lamb, P.J. | Nicklin, K.J. | Yorke, C.
Journal article
2012
Dynamical downscaling of ECMWF Ensemble seasonal forecasts over East Africa with RegCM3
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (2012)
Diro, G.T. | Tompkins, A.M. | Bi, X.
Journal article
2012
Effect of temporal and spatial scales of weather data on crop yield forecasts
Climate Research (2012)
Li, S. | Tompkins, A.M.
Journal article
2011
A simple bias correction technique for modeled monsoon precipitation applied to West Africa
Geophysical Research Letters (2011)
Feudale, L. | Tompkins, A.M.
Journal article
2011
Operational meteorology in West Africa: Observational networks, weather analysis and forecasting
Atmospheric Science Letters (2011)
Fink, A.H. | Agustí-Panareda, A. | Parker, D.J. | Lafore, J.-P. | Ngamini, J.-B. | Afiesimama, E. | Beljaars, A. | Bock, O. | Christoph, M. | Didé, F. | Faccani, C. | Fourrié, N. | Karbou, F. | Polcher, J. | Mumba, Z. ...
Journal article
2011
Partitioning CloudSat ice water content for comparison with upper tropospheric ice in global atmospheric models
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (2011)
Chen, W.-T. | Woods, C.P. | Li, J.-L.F. | Waliser, D.E. | Chern, J.-D. | Tao, W.-K. | Jiang, J.H. | Tompkins, A.M.
Journal article
2010
The ECMWF model climate: Recent progress through improved physical parametrizations
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society (2010)
Jung, T. | Balsamo, G. | Bechtold, P. | Beljaars, A.C.M. | Köhler, M. | Miller, M.J. | Morcrette, J.-J. | Orr, A. | Rodwell, M.J. | Tompkins, A.M.
Journal article
2010
The maintenance of the relative humidity of the subtropical free troposphere
Journal of Climate (2010)
Couhert, A. | Schneider, T. | Li, J. | Waliser, D.E. | Tompkins, A.M.
Journal article
2010
Using continuous ground-based radar and lidar measurements for evaluating the representation of clouds in four operational models
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology (2010)
Bouniol, D. | Protat, A. | Delanoë, J. | Pelon, J. | Piriou, J.-M. | Bouyssel, F. | Tompkins, A.M. | Wilson, D.R. | Morille, Y. | Haeffelin, M. | O'Connor, E.J. | Hogan, R.J. | Illingworth, A.J. | Donovan, D.P. | Baltink, H.-K.
Journal article
2010
Seasonal ensemble predictions of West African monsoon precipitation in the ECMWF system 3 with a focus on the AMMA special observing period in 2006
Weather and Forecasting (2010)
Tompkins, A.M. | Feudale, L.
Journal article
2009
Cloud ice: A climate model challenge with signs and expectations of progress
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (2009)
Waliser, D.E. | Li, J.-L.F. | Woods, C.P. | Austin, R.T. | Bacmeister, J. | Chern, J. | Del Genio, A. | Jiang, J.H. | Kuang, Z. | Meng, H. | Minnis, P. | Platnick, S. | Rossow, W.B. | Stephens, G.L. | Sun-Mack, S. | Tao, W.-K. ...
Journal article
2009
Radiosonde humidity bias correction over the West African region for the special AMMA reanalysis at ECMWF
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society (2009)
Agustí-Panareda, A. | Vasiljevic, D. | Beljaars, A. | Bock, O. | Guichard, F. | Nuret, M. | Mendez, A.G. | Andersson, E. | Bechtold, P. | Fink, A. | Hersbach, H. | Lafore, J.-P. | Ngamini, J.-B. | Parker, D.J. | Redelsperger, J.-L. ...
Journal article
2009
The diabatic heat budget of the upper troposphere and lower/mid stratosphere in ECMWF reanalyses
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society (2009)
Fueglistaler, S. | Legras, B. | Beljaars, A. | Morcrette, J.-J. | Simmons, A. | Tompkins, A.M. | Uppala, S.
Journal article
2009
Vertical heating structures associated with the MJO as characterized by TRMM estimates, ECMWF reanalyses, and forecasts: A case Sstudy during 1998/99 Winter
Journal of Climate (2009)
Jiang, X. | Waliser, D.E. | Olson, W.S. | Tao, W.-K. | L'ecuyer, T.S. | Li, J.-L. | Tian, B. | Yung, Y.L. | Tompkins, A.M. | Lang, S.E. | Grecu, M.
Journal article
2009
A Gill-Matsuno-type mechanism explains the tropical Atlantic influence on African and Indian monsoon rainfall
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society (2009)
Kucharski, F. | Bracco, A. | Yoo, J.H. | Tompkins, A.M. | Feudale, L. | Ruti, P. | Dell'Aquila, A.

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