Scott Hosking

Environmental Data Scientist

Biography

Scott Hosking is an Environmental Data Scientist at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and Senior Research Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute. His research involves using AI and machine learning techniques on vast and various datasets, including the output from global climate models and weather stations. The primary aims of Scott’s work are to identify and understand the key mechanisms that drive year-to-year climate variability over vulnerable regions, the changes in frequency and strength of extreme weather events, and to reduce uncertainties in future climate predictions. His roles include:

Head of the Artificial Intelligence Lab, British Antarctic Survey
Co-Director of the Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in the Application of AI for the study of Environmental Risks, University of Cambridge
Board member of the Cambridge Centre for Climate Science (CCfCS), University of Cambridge
Member of the Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP) network, University of Cambridge
Committee Member, International Commission on Polar Meteorology
Associate Fellow, Royal Meteorological Society

Staff

Tom Andersson – Data Scientist
- Probabilistic machine learning for Arctic climate prediction
Tony Phillips – Climate Model Data and Analysis Software Manager
- Developing new frameworks for leveraging big data
Charles Simpson – Environmental Data Scientist
- Prediction of future climate risks and hazards

Graduate Students

Kenza Tazi (BAS/Univ. Cambridge, AI4ER MRes Student), 2020-
Tudor Suciu (BAS/Univ. Cambridge, AI4ER MRes Student), 2020-
Marc Girona-Mata (Univ. Cambridge, AI4ER MRes Student), 2020-
Anna Vaughan (Univ. Cambridge, AI4ER MRes Student), 2020-
Risa Ueno (BAS/Univ. Cambridge, Industry Partner Max Fordham), 2018-
- PhD Enrichment Student, Alan Turing Institute
- Machine learning for assessing urban climate extremes and energy usage
Robert Edwin Rouse (Univ. Cambridge, Industry Partner Mott MacDonald), 2018-
- Machine learning approaches to assessing future flood risk in megacities
Will Tebbutt (Univ. Cambridge, Industry Partner DeepMind), 2017-
- Developing Bayesian Machine Learning tools for the calibration of climate model ensembles
Matt Amos (Univ. Lancaster), 2017-
- Statistical and machine learning methods for intelligently aggregating chemistry-climate model output
Murk Komal (Univ. Sheffield), 2018-
- Drivers of Arctic climate change and browning events

Past members
Daniel Bannister (Post-Doc, 2015-18, now Scientist at Satavia); Michelle McCrystall (PhD BAS/Cambridge, 2014-17, now post-doc at Exeter University); Fruzsina Agocs (PhD Industrial Placement: Data Intensive Science CDT, Univ. Cambridge, 2019-20); Tom Andersson (MEng Part IIB Dissertation, Machine Learning Group, Cambridge, 2019); Aymeric Delon (Masters Dissertation, ENS-Paris-Saclay, 2019); Stratis Markou (Internship, Machine Learning Group, Cambridge, 2017); Daniel Popa-Christobal (Internship, 2018)

Collaborations

Selected Publications

Changes in European wind energy generation potential within a 1.5C warmer world
J. S. Hosking, D. MacLeod, T. Phillips, C. R. Holmes, P. Watson, E. Shuckburgh, D. Mitchell,
Environmental Research Letters 2018.
Accumulation in coastal West Antarctic ice core records and the role of cyclone activity,
J. Scott Hosking, Ryan Fogt, Elizabeth R. Thomas, Vahid Moosavi, Tony Phillips, Jack Coggins, David Reusch,
Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 44, No. 17, p.9084–9092 2017.
Future circulation changes off West Antarctica: Sensitivity of the Amundsen Sea Low to projected anthropogenic forcing,
J. Scott Hosking, Andrew Orr, Thomas J. Bracegirdle, John Turner,
Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 43, p.367–376 2016.
The influence of the Amundsen-Bellingshausen Seas Low on the climate of West Antarctica and its representation in coupled climate model simulations,
J. S. Hosking, A. Orr, G. J. Marshall, J. Turner, T. Phillips,
Journal of Climate, Vol. 26, No. 17, p.6633–6648 2013

Full publication list (2010-) available –> here

Publications from NERC Open Research Archive

2020

Bracegirdle, T.J. , Holmes, C.R. , Hosking, J.S. , Marshall, G.J. , Osman, M., Patterson, M., Rackow, T.. (2020) Improvements in Circumpolar Southern Hemisphere Extratropical Atmospheric Circulation in CMIP6 Compared to CMIP5. Earth and Space Science, 7. 10.1029/2019EA001065

McCrystall, Michelle R., Hosking, J. Scott , White, Ian P., Maycock, Amanda C.. (2020) The Impact of Changes in Tropical Sea Surface Temperatures over 1979–2012 on Northern Hemisphere High-Latitude Climate. Journal of Climate, 33. 19 pp. 10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0456.1

Amos, Matt, Young, Paul J., Hosking, J. Scott , Lamarque, Jean-François, Abraham, N. Luke, Akiyoshi, Hideharu, Archibald, Alexander T., Bekki, Slimane, Deushi, Makoto, Jöckel, Patrick, Kinnison, Douglas, Kirner, Ole, Kunze, Markus, Marchand, Marion, Plummer, David A., Saint-Martin, David, Kengo, Sudo, Tilmes, Simone, Yamashita, Yousuke. (2020) Projecting ozone hole recovery using an ensemble of chemistry-climate models weighted by model performance and independence.. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions. 10.5194/acp-2020-86

2019

Bannister, Daniel, Orr, Andrew , Jain, Sanjay K., Holman, Ian P., Momblanch, Andrea, Phillips, Tony , Adeloye, Adebayo J., Snapir, Boris, Waine, Toby W., Hosking, Scott , Allen-Sader, Clare. (2019) Bias Correction of High-Resolution Regional Climate Model Precipitation Output Gives the Best Estimates of Precipitation in Himalayan Catchments.. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124. 20 pp. 10.1029/2019JD030804

Kapetas, L., Kazakis, N., Voudouris, K., Martinez, Alejandro Tello, Hosking, Scott . (2019) Modelling Groundwater – Surface Water Interactions Under Climate Change Scenarios: insights from Axios Delta, Greece.. In: ICONHIC 2019: 2nd International Conference on Natural Hazards & Infrastructure Chania, Greece, 23-26 June.

Turner, John , Phillips, Tony , Thamban, Meloth, Rahaman, Waliur, Marshall, Gareth , Wille, Jonathan, Favier, Vincent, Winton, Holly, Thomas, Liz , Wang, Zhaomin, van den Broeke, Michiel, Hosking, Scott , Lachlan-Cope, Thomas. (2019) The dominant role of extreme precipitation events in Antarctic snowfall variability. Geophysical Research Letters, 46. 3502-3511. 10.1029/2018GL081517

2018

Deb, Pranab, Orr, Andrew , Bromwich, David H., Nicolas, Julien P., Turner, John , Hosking, J. Scott . (2018) Summer drivers of atmospheric variability affecting ice shelf thinning in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica. Geophysical Research Letters, 45. 4124-4133. 10.1029/2018GL077092

Hosking, J. Scott , MacLeod, D., Phillips, T. , Holmes, C.R. , Watson, P., Shuckburgh, E.F. , Mitchell, D.. (2018) Changes in European wind energy generation potential within a 1.5°C warmer world. Environmental Research Letters, 13. 10.1088/1748-9326/aabf78

2017

King, John C., Bannister, Daniel , Hosking, J. Scott , Colwell, Steve R.. (2017) Causes of the Antarctic region record high temperature at Signy Island, 30 January 1982. Atmospheric Science Letters, 18. 491-496. 10.1002/asl.793

Hosking, J. Scott , Fogt, Ryan, Thomas, Elizabeth R. , Moosavi, Vahid, Phillips, Tony , Coggins, Jack, Reusch, David. (2017) Accumulation in coastal West Antarctic ice core records and the role of cyclone activity. Geophysical Research Letters, 44. 9084-9092. 10.1002/2017GL074722

Bannister, Daniel, Herzog, Michael, Graf, Hans-F, Hosking, J. Scott , Short, C. Alan. (2017) An assessment of recent and future temperature change over the Sichuan Basin, China, using CMIP5 climate models. Journal of Climate, 30. 6701-6722. 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0536.1

Turner, John , Phillips, Tony , Marshall, Gareth J. , Hosking, J. Scott , Pope, James O. , Bracegirdle, Thomas J. , Deb, Pranab. (2017) Unprecedented springtime retreat of Antarctic sea ice in 2016. Geophysical Research Letters, 44. 6868-6875. 10.1002/2017GL073656

Turner, John , Hosking, J. Scott , Bracegirdle, Thomas J. , Phillips, Tony , Marshall, Gareth J. . (2017) Variability and trends in the Southern Hemisphere high latitude, quasi-stationary planetary waves. International Journal of Climatology, 35. 2325-2336. doi:10.1002/joc.4848

Moffat-Griffin, Tracy , Taylor, Mike J., Nakamura, Takuji, Kavanagh, Andrew J. , Hosking, J. Scott , Orr, Andrew . (2017) 3rd ANtarctic Gravity Wave Instrument Network (ANGWIN) science workshop. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 34. 1-3. doi:10.1007/s00376-016-6197-5

2016

Turner, John , Lu, Hua , White, Ian, King, John C., Phillips, Tony , Hosking, J. Scott , Bracegirdle, Thomas J. , Marshall, Gareth J. , Mulvaney, Robert , Deb, Pranab. (2016) Absence of 21st century warming on Antarctic Peninsula consistent with natural variability. Nature, 535. 411-415. doi:10.1038/nature18645

Turner, John , Hosking, J. Scott , Marshall, Gareth J. , Phillips, Tony , Bracegirdle, Thomas J. . (2016) Antarctic sea ice increase consistent with intrinsic variability of the Amundsen Sea Low. Climate Dynamics, 46. 2391-2402. 10.1007/s00382-015-2708-9

Deb, Pranab, Orr, Andrew , Hosking, J. Scott , Phillips, Tony , Turner, John , Bannister, Daniel, Pope, James O. , Colwell, Steve. (2016) An assessment of the Polar Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) model representation of near-surface meteorological variables over West Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 121. 1532-1548. 10.1002/2015JD024037

Hosking, J. Scott , Orr, Andrew , Bracegirdle, Thomas J. , Turner, John . (2016) Future circulation changes off West Antarctica: Sensitivity of the Amundsen Sea Low to projected anthropogenic forcing. Geophysical Research Letters, 43. 367-376. 10.1002/2015GL067143

Raphael, M.N., Marshall, G. J. , Turner, J. , Fogt, R.L., Schneider, D., Dixon, D.A., Hosking, J.S. , Jones, J.M., Hobbs, W.R.. (2016) The Amundsen Sea Low: Variability, change and impact on Antarctic climate. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 97. 111-121. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00018.1

2015

Thomas, Elizabeth R. , Hosking, J. Scott , Tuckwell, Rebecca R. , Ludlow, Emily C.. (2015) Twentieth century increase in snowfall in coastal West Antarctica. Geophysical Research Letters, 42. 9387-9393. 10.1002/2015GL065750

Turner, John , Hosking, J. Scott , Bracegirdle, Thomas J. , Marshall, Gareth J. , Phillips, Tony . (2015) Recent changes in Antarctic sea ice. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, A, 373. 10.1098/rsta.2014.0163

Chemel, Charles, Russo, Maria R., Hosking, J. Scott , Telford, Paul J., Pyle, John A.. (2015) Sensitivity of tropical deep convection in global models: effects of horizontal resolution, surface constraints, and 3D atmospheric nudging. Atmospheric Science Letters, 16. 148-154. 10.1002/asl2.540

Orr, A. , Hosking, J.S. , Hoffmann, L., Keeble, J., Dean, S.M., Roscoe, H.K., Abraham, N.L., Vosper, S., Braesicke, P.. (2015) Inclusion of mountain wave-induced cooling for the formation of PSCs over the Antarctic Peninsula in a chemistry-climate model. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 15. 1071-1086. 10.5194/acp-15-1071-2015

Hosking, J. Scott , Bannister, Daniel, Orr, Andrew , King, John, Young, Emma , Phillips, Tony . (2015) Orographic disturbances of surface winds over the shelf waters adjacent to South Georgia. Atmospheric Science Letters, 16. 50-55. doi:10.1002/asl2.519

2014

Orr, Andrew , Phillips, Tony , Webster, Stuart, Elvidge, Andy, Weeks, Mark, Hosking, Scott , Turner, John . (2014) Met Office unified model high resolution simulations of a strong wind event in Antarctica. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 140. 2287-2297. 10.1002/qj.2296

Bracegirdle, Thomas J. , Turner, John , Hosking, J. Scott , Phillips, Tony . (2014) Sources of uncertainty in projections of 21st century westerly wind changes over the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica, in CMIP5 climate models. Climate Dynamics, 43. 2093-2104. 10.1007/s00382-013-2032-1

2013

Turner, John , Hosking, J. Scott , Phillips, Tony , Marshall, Gareth J. . (2013) Temporal and spatial evolution of the Antarctic sea ice prior to the September 2012 record maximum extent. Geophysical Research Letters, 40. 5894-5898. doi:10.1002/2013GL058371

Hosking, J. Scott , Orr, Andrew , Marshall, Gareth J. , Turner, John , Phillips, Tony . (2013) The influence of the Amundsen–Bellingshausen Seas low on the climate of West Antarctica and its representation in coupled climate model simulations. Journal of Climate, 26. 6633-6648. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00813.1

Turner, John , Phillips, Tony , Hosking, J. Scott , Marshall, Gareth J. , Orr, Andrew . (2013) The Amundsen Sea low. International Journal of Climatology, 33. 1818-1829. doi:10.1002/joc.3558

Turner, John , Bracegirdle, Thomas J. , Phillips, Tony , Marshall, Gareth J. , Hosking, J. Scott . (2013) An initial assessment of Antarctic Sea ice extent in the CMIP5 models. Journal of Climate, 26. 1473-1484. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00068.1

Barrand, N.E., Vaughan, D.G. , Steiner, N., Tedesco, M., Kuipers Munneke, P., van den Broeke, M.R., Hosking, J.S. . (2013) Trends in Antarctic Peninsula surface melting conditions from observations and regional climate modelling. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 118. 315-330. doi:10.1029/2012JF002559

Orr, Andrew , Bracegirdle, Thomas J. , Hosking, J. Scott , Feng, Wuhu, Roscoe, Howard K., Haigh, Joanna D.. (2013) Strong dynamical modulation of the cooling of the polar stratosphere associated with the Antarctic ozone hole. Journal of Climate, 26. 662-668. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00480.1

2012

Orr, Andrew , Bracegirdle, Thomas J. , Hosking, J. Scott , Jung, Thomas, Haigh, Joanna D., Phillips, Tony , Feng, Wuhu. (2012) Possible dynamical mechanisms for Southern Hemisphere climate change due to the ozone hole. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 69. 2917-2932. 10.1175/JAS-D-11-0210.1

Hosking, J.S. , Russo, M. R., Braesicke, P., Pyle, J. A.. (2012) Tropical convective transport and the Walker circulation. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 12. 9791-9797. doi:10.5194/acp-12-9791-2012

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