Keywords: Climate physics, Atmospheric, oceanic and planetary well-being, extreme events event attribution extratropical cyclones predictability of weather and climate
Shirin is a doctoral researcher working in collaboration with the UK Met Office. Her research focuses on extreme event attribution using medium-range weather forecasts to assess changes in extreme weather events. She is currently assessing mid-latitude storms, using the storyline approach of event attribution. My supervisory team is Dr Antje Weisheimer, Dr Sarah Sparrow, Dr Fraser Lott, and Dr Nick Leach.
Shirin obtained a BSc in Physics from Heidelberg (Germany) and an MSc in Physics with Extended Research from Imperial College London. Apart from her academic research, she is interested in evidence-based policy and science journalism. For her BSc, Shirin investigated the multicentennial variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in four coupled climate models. She presented the results of this study at EGU 2020. During her research year at Imperial, Shirin studied the interannual variability of tropical cyclones using a statistical-empirical hazard model called STORM which I presented at EGU 2022.
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