Overview

Associate Professor Bob Beare's research involves modelling the atmospheric boundary layer and its interaction with weather systems. Such modelling work has an impact on improving weather and climate predictions, air pollution modelling and wind energy. He has a physics degree from Oxford University and a PhD in meteorology from Reading University. Previously at the Met Office, Bob is now an Associate Professor at CEMPS, Exeter University.

Research interests

• High resolution numerical weather prediction
• Using balance to test parametrization schemes in weather and climate models
• Pollution dispersion in evening boundary layers
• Antarctic boundary layers

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Publications

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2023

• Bowen P. (2023) Improving Moist Thermodynamics in Weather and Climate Models. [PDF]
• Beare RJ, Cullen MJP. (2023) A balanced model of a hurricane vortex coupled to a boundary layer, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, volume 149, no. 757, pages 3290-3300, DOI:10.1002/qj.4556. [PDF]
• Bowen P. (2023) Improving Moist Thermodynamics in Weather and Climate Models.
• Hearn S. (2023) Physics-Dynamics Coupling: Understanding Tropical Processes and Process Interactions in Weather and Climate Models.

2021

• Kealy J. (2021) Improving Turbulence Representation in High-Resolution Numerical Weather Prediction.

2020

• Honnert R, Efstathiou GA, Beare RJ, Ito J, Lock A, Neggers R, Plant RS, Shin HH, Tomassini L, Zhou B. (2020) The Atmospheric Boundary Layer and the “Gray Zone” of Turbulence: A Critical Review, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, volume 125, no. 13, DOI:10.1029/2019jd030317. [PDF]

2019

• Beare RJ, Cullen MJP. (2019) A simple model of a balanced boundary layer coupled to a large-scale convective circulation, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, DOI:10.1175/JAS-D-18-0189.1. [PDF]
• Kealy JC, Efstathiou GA, Beare RJ. (2019) The Onset of Resolved Boundary-Layer Turbulence at Grey-Zone Resolutions, Boundary-Layer Meteorology, volume 171, no. 1, pages 31-52, DOI:10.1007/s10546-018-0420-0.

2018

• Beare R. (2018) Physics–Dynamics Coupling in weather, climate and Earth system models: Challenges and recent progress, Monthly Weather Review, volume 146, DOI:10.1175/MWR-D-17-0345.1. [PDF]
• Thuburn J, Weller H, Vallis GK, Beare RJ, Whitall M. (2018) A Framework for convection and boundary layer parameterization derived from conditional filtering, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, volume 75, no. 3, pages 965-981, DOI:10.1175/JAS-D-17-0130.1.

2016

• Beare RJ, Cullen MJP. (2016) Validating weather and climate models at small Rossby numbers: including a boundary layer, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, volume 142, no. 700, pages 2636-2645, DOI:10.1002/qj.2852.
• Walesby KT, Beare RJ. (2016) Parametrizing the Antarctic stable boundary layer: synthesizing models and observations, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, volume 142, no. 699, pages 2373-2385, DOI:10.1002/qj.2830.
• Efstathiou GA, Beare RJ, Osborne S, Lock AP. (2016) Grey zone simulations of the morning convective boundary layer development, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, volume 121, no. 9, pages 4769-4782, DOI:10.1002/2016jd024860. [PDF]

2015

• Efstathiou GA, Beare RJ. (2015) Quantifying and improving sub-grid diffusion in the boundary-layer grey zone, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, volume 141, no. 693, pages 3006-3017, DOI:10.1002/qj.2585.

2014

• Heinold B, Knippertz P, Beare RJ. (2014) Idealized large‐eddy simulations of nocturnal low‐level jets over subtropical desert regions and implications for dust‐generating winds, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, volume 141, no. 690, pages 1740-1752, DOI:10.1002/qj.2475. [PDF]
• Holloway CE, Petch JC, Beare RJ, Bechtold P, Craig GC, Derbyshire SH, Donner LJ, Field PR, Gray SL, Marsham JH. (2014) Understanding and representing atmospheric convection across scales: Recommendations from the meeting held at Dartington Hall, Devon, UK, 28-30 January 2013, Atmospheric Science Letters, volume 15, no. 4, pages 348-353, DOI:10.1002/asl2.508.
• Taylor AC, Beare RJ, Thomson DJ. (2014) Simulating Dispersion in the Evening-Transition Boundary Layer, Boundary-Layer Meteorology, volume 153, no. 3, pages 389-407, DOI:10.1007/s10546-014-9960-0.
• Beare RJ. (2014) A Length Scale Defining Partially-Resolved Boundary-Layer Turbulence Simulations, Boundary-Layer Meteorology, volume 151, no. 1, pages 39-55, DOI:10.1007/s10546-013-9881-3.

2013

• Holtslag AAM, Svensson G, Baas P, Basu S, Beare B, Beljaars ACM, Bosveld FC, Cuxart J, Linvall J, Steenveld GJ. (2013) Stable Atmospheric Boundary Layers and Diurnal Cycles – Challenges for Weather and Climate Models, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, pages 1691-1706.
• Beare RJ, Cullen MJP. (2013) Diagnosis of boundary-layer circulations, Philosophical Transactions A, Royal Society, volume 371, article no. 20110474, DOI:10.1098/rsta.2011.0474. [PDF]

2012

• Beare RJ, Cullen MJP. (2012) Balanced models of boundary-layer convergence, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, volume 138, no. 667, pages 1452-1464, DOI:10.1002/qj.1877.

2011

• Taylor AC, Beare RJ, Thomson D. (2011) Dispersion by transitional atmospheric boundary layers, HARMO 2011 - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Harmonisation within Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling for Regulatory Purposes, pages 381-385.
• Kim HM, Beare RJ. (2011) Characteristics of adjoint sensitivity to potential vorticity, Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, volume 111, no. 3-4, pages 91-102, DOI:10.1007/s00703-010-0119-3.

2010

• Beare RJ, Cullen MJP. (2010) A semi-geostrophic model incorporating well-mixed boundary layers, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc, volume 136, pages 906-917. [PDF]
• Boutle IA, Beare RJ, Belcher SE, Brown AR, Plant RS. (2010) The moist boundary layer under a mid-latitude weather system, Boundary-Layer Meteorology, volume 134, no. 3, pages 367-386, DOI:10.1007/s10546-009-9452-9.

2008

• Boutle IA, Beare RJ, Belcher SE, Plant RS. (2008) A note on boundary-layer friction in baroclinic cyclones, DOI:10.48550/arxiv.0801.4648.
• Brown AR, Beare RJ, Edwards JM, Lock AP, Keogh SJ, Milton SF, Walters DN. (2008) Upgrades to the boundary-layer scheme in the met office numerical weather prediction model, Boundary-Layer Meteorology, volume 128, no. 1, pages 117-132, DOI:10.1007/s10546-008-9275-0.
• Beare RJ. (2008) The role of shear in the morning transition boundary layer, Boundary-Layer Meteorology, volume 129, no. 3, pages 395-410, DOI:10.1007/s10546-008-9324-8.

2007

• Webster HN, Beare RJ, Devenish BJ, Haywood JM, Lock AP, Thomson DJ. (2007) Using plume rise schemes to model highly buoyant plumes from large fires, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Harmonisation within Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling for Regulatory Purposes, HARMO 2007, pages 220-224.
• Webster H, Beare R, Devenish B, Haywood J, Lock A, Thomson D. (2007) Using plume rise schemes to model highly buoyant plumes from large fires, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Harmonisation within Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling for Regulatory Purposes, HARMO 2007.
• Boutle IA, Beare RJ, Belcher SE, Plant RS. (2007) A note on boundary layer friction in baroclinic cyclones, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc, volume 133, pages 2137-2141.
• Beare RJ. (2007) Boundary layer mechanisms in extratropical cyclones, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, volume 133, no. 623, pages 503-515, DOI:10.1002/qj.30.

2006

• Edwards JM, Beare RJ, Lapworth AJ. (2006) Simulation of the observed evening transition and nocturnal boundary layers: Single-column modelling, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc, volume 132, pages 61-80.
• Beare RJ, Edwards JM, Lapworth AJ. (2006) Simulation of the observed evening transition and nocturnal boundary layers: Large-eddy simulation, QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY, volume 132, no. 614, pages 81-99, DOI:10.1256/qj.05.64. [PDF]
• Cuxart J, Holtslag AAM, Beare RJ, coauthors. (2006) Single-column model intercomparison for a stably stratified atmospheric boundary layer, Boundary-Layer Meteorol, volume 118, pages 273-303.
• Beare RJ, MacVean MK, Holtslag AAM, Cuxart J, Esau I, Golaz JC, Jimenez MA, Khairoutdinov M, Kosovic B, Lewellen D. (2006) An intercomparison of large-eddy simulations of the stable boundary layer, BOUNDARY-LAYER METEOROLOGY, volume 118, no. 2, pages 247-272, DOI:10.1007/s10546-004-2820-6. [PDF]

2005

• White AA, Beare RJ. (2005) Flavours of pseudo height, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc, volume 131, pages 759-764.

2004

• Edwards JM, Beare B, Lapworth A. (2004) Modelling of transition boundary layers, 16th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, pages 667-670.
• Beare RJ, Macvean MK. (2004) Resolution sensitivity and scaling of large-eddy simulations of the stable boundary layer, BOUNDARY-LAYER METEOROLOGY, volume 112, no. 2, pages 257-281, DOI:10.1023/B:BOUN.0000027910.57913.4d. [PDF]

2003

• Beare RJ, Thorpe AJ, White AA. (2003) The predictability of extratropical cyclones: Nonlinear sensitivity to localized potential-vorticity perturbations, QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY, volume 129, no. 587, pages 219-237, DOI:10.1256/qj.02.15. [PDF]
• RJBeare, Thorpe AJ, White AA. (2003) The predictability of extratropical cyclones: Nonlinear sensitivity to localized potential-vorticity perturbations, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, volume 129, no. 587, pages 219-237, DOI:10.1256/qj.02.15.

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