Scott Hosking
Environmental Data Scientist
Biography
Dr Scott Hosking is an Environmental Data Scientist at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and The Alan Turing Institute. His research focuses on artificial intelligence and data science methods to identify and understand the physical mechanisms that drive high-impact climate events with the aim to reduce uncertainties in future predictions and help inform environmental policy. He is also leading a large research programme to develop Digital Twins of the natural environment.
His primary roles include:
- Leader of the BAS AI Lab
- Senior Research Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute
- Co-Director of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in the Application of AI for the study of Environmental Risks, University of Cambridge and BAS
More details on research available here
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 available here
Publications from NERC Open Research Archive
2021
Haupt, Sue Ellen, Chapman, William, Adams, Samantha V., Kirkwood, Charlie, Hosking, J. Scott ORCID record for J. Scott Hosking, Robinson, Niall H., Lerch, Sebastian, Subramanian, Aneesh C.. (2021) Towards Implementing AI Post-processing in Weather and Climate: Proposed Actions from the Oxford 2019 Workshop. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Meteorological Society A, 379. 21 pp. 10.1098/rsta.2020.0091
Haupt, Sue Ellen, Chapman, William, Adams, Samantha V., Kirkwood, Charlie, Hosking, J. Scott ORCID record for J. Scott Hosking, Robinson, Niall H., Lerch, Sebastian, Subramanian, Aneesh C.. (2021) Towards implementing artificial intelligence post-processing in weather and climate: Proposed actions from the Oxford 2019 workshop. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Meteorological Society A, 379. 21 pp. 10.1098/rsta.2020.0091
2020
Patterson, David J., Ariel, Yotam, Burks, Beth, Gratcheva, Ekaterina M., Hosking, J. Scott ORCID record for J. Scott Hosking, Klein, Noémie, Protopopova, Lioubov, Ruiz, Efrain Eduardo Tamayo, Schmitt, Susanne, Shackelton, Bobby, Wang, Dieter, Wuebbles, Donald J.. (2020) Spatial finance: Challenges and opportunities in a changing world. Washington, DC, World Bank, 66 pp. (Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions Insight.)
Orr, Andrew ORCID record for Andrew Orr, Hosking, J. Scott ORCID record for J. Scott Hosking, Delon, Aymeric, Hoffman, Lars, Spang, Reinhold, Moffat-Griffin, Tracy ORCID record for Tracy Moffat-Griffin, Keeble, James, Abraham, Nathan Luke, Braesicke, Peter. (2020) Polar stratospheric clouds initiated by mountain waves in a global chemistry–climate model: a missing piece in fully modelling polar stratospheric ozone depletion. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 20. 15 pp. 10.5194/acp-20-12483-2020
Amos, Matt, Young, Paul J., Hosking, J. Scott ORCID record for J. Scott Hosking, 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, 20. 9961-9977. 10.5194/acp-20-9961-2020
Bracegirdle, T.J. ORCID record for T.J. Bracegirdle, Holmes, C.R. ORCID record for C.R. Holmes, Hosking, J.S. ORCID record for J.S. Hosking, Marshall, G.J. ORCID record for G.J. Marshall, 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. 12 pp. 10.1029/2019EA001065
McCrystall, Michelle R., Hosking, J. Scott ORCID record for J. Scott Hosking, 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
2019
Bannister, Daniel, Orr, Andrew ORCID record for Andrew Orr, Jain, Sanjay K., Holman, Ian P., Momblanch, Andrea, Phillips, Tony ORCID record for Tony Phillips, Adeloye, Adebayo J., Snapir, Boris, Waine, Toby W., Hosking, Scott ORCID record for Scott Hosking, 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 ORCID record for Scott Hosking. (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 ORCID record for John Turner, Phillips, Tony ORCID record for Tony Phillips, Thamban, Meloth, Rahaman, Waliur, Marshall, Gareth ORCID record for Gareth Marshall, Wille, Jonathan, Favier, Vincent, Winton, Holly ORCID record for Holly Winton, Thomas, Liz ORCID record for Liz Thomas, Wang, Zhaomin, van den Broeke, Michiel, Hosking, Scott ORCID record for Scott Hosking, Lachlan-Cope, Thomas ORCID record for Thomas Lachlan-Cope. (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 ORCID record for Andrew Orr, Bromwich, David H., Nicolas, Julien P., Turner, John ORCID record for John Turner, Hosking, J. Scott ORCID record for J. Scott Hosking. (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 ORCID record for J. Scott Hosking, MacLeod, D., Phillips, T. ORCID record for T. Phillips, Holmes, C.R. ORCID record for C.R. Holmes, Watson, P., Shuckburgh, E.F. ORCID record for E.F. Shuckburgh, 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 ORCID record for Daniel Bannister, Hosking, J. Scott ORCID record for J. Scott Hosking, 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 ORCID record for J. Scott Hosking, Fogt, Ryan, Thomas, Elizabeth R. ORCID record for Elizabeth R. Thomas, Moosavi, Vahid, Phillips, Tony ORCID record for Tony Phillips, 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 ORCID record for J. Scott Hosking, 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 ORCID record for John Turner, Phillips, Tony ORCID record for Tony Phillips, Marshall, Gareth J. ORCID record for Gareth J. Marshall, Hosking, J. Scott ORCID record for J. Scott Hosking, Pope, James O. ORCID record for James O. Pope, Bracegirdle, Thomas J. ORCID record for Thomas J. Bracegirdle, Deb, Pranab. (2017) Unprecedented springtime retreat of Antarctic sea ice in 2016. Geophysical Research Letters, 44. 6868-6875. 10.1002/2017GL073656
Turner, John ORCID record for John Turner, Hosking, J. Scott ORCID record for J. Scott Hosking, Bracegirdle, Thomas J. ORCID record for Thomas J. Bracegirdle, Phillips, Tony ORCID record for Tony Phillips, Marshall, Gareth J. ORCID record for Gareth J. Marshall. (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 ORCID record for Tracy Moffat-Griffin, Taylor, Mike J., Nakamura, Takuji, Kavanagh, Andrew J. ORCID record for Andrew J. Kavanagh, Hosking, J. Scott ORCID record for J. Scott Hosking, Orr, Andrew ORCID record for Andrew Orr. (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 ORCID record for John Turner, Lu, Hua ORCID record for Hua Lu, White, Ian, King, John C., Phillips, Tony ORCID record for Tony Phillips, Hosking, J. Scott ORCID record for J. Scott Hosking, Bracegirdle, Thomas J. ORCID record for Thomas J. Bracegirdle, Marshall, Gareth J. ORCID record for Gareth J. Marshall, Mulvaney, Robert ORCID record for Robert Mulvaney, 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 ORCID record for John Turner, Hosking, J. Scott ORCID record for J. Scott Hosking, Marshall, Gareth J. ORCID record for Gareth J. Marshall, Phillips, Tony ORCID record for Tony Phillips, Bracegirdle, Thomas J. ORCID record for Thomas J. Bracegirdle. (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 ORCID record for Andrew Orr, Hosking, J. Scott ORCID record for J. Scott Hosking, Phillips, Tony ORCID record for Tony Phillips, Turner, John ORCID record for John Turner, Bannister, Daniel, Pope, James O. ORCID record for James O. Pope, 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 ORCID record for J. Scott Hosking, Orr, Andrew ORCID record for Andrew Orr, Bracegirdle, Thomas J. ORCID record for Thomas J. Bracegirdle, Turner, John ORCID record for John Turner. (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. ORCID record for G. J. Marshall, Turner, J. ORCID record for J. Turner, Fogt, R.L., Schneider, D., Dixon, D.A., Hosking, J.S. ORCID record for J.S. Hosking, 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. ORCID record for Elizabeth R. Thomas, Hosking, J. Scott ORCID record for J. Scott Hosking, Tuckwell, Rebecca R. ORCID record for Rebecca R. Tuckwell, Ludlow, Emily C.. (2015) Twentieth century increase in snowfall in coastal West Antarctica. Geophysical Research Letters, 42. 9387-9393. 10.1002/2015GL065750
Turner, John ORCID record for John Turner, Hosking, J. Scott ORCID record for J. Scott Hosking, Bracegirdle, Thomas J. ORCID record for Thomas J. Bracegirdle, Marshall, Gareth J. ORCID record for Gareth J. Marshall, Phillips, Tony ORCID record for Tony Phillips. (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 ORCID record for J. Scott Hosking, 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. ORCID record for A. Orr, Hosking, J.S. ORCID record for J.S. Hosking, 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 ORCID record for J. Scott Hosking, Bannister, Daniel, Orr, Andrew ORCID record for Andrew Orr, King, John, Young, Emma ORCID record for Emma Young, Phillips, Tony ORCID record for Tony Phillips. (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 ORCID record for Andrew Orr, Phillips, Tony ORCID record for Tony Phillips, Webster, Stuart, Elvidge, Andy, Weeks, Mark, Hosking, Scott ORCID record for Scott Hosking, Turner, John ORCID record for John Turner. (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. ORCID record for Thomas J. Bracegirdle, Turner, John ORCID record for John Turner, Hosking, J. Scott ORCID record for J. Scott Hosking, Phillips, Tony ORCID record for Tony Phillips. (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 ORCID record for John Turner, Hosking, J. Scott ORCID record for J. Scott Hosking, Phillips, Tony ORCID record for Tony Phillips, Marshall, Gareth J. ORCID record for Gareth J. Marshall. (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 ORCID record for J. Scott Hosking, Orr, Andrew ORCID record for Andrew Orr, Marshall, Gareth J. ORCID record for Gareth J. Marshall, Turner, John ORCID record for John Turner, Phillips, Tony ORCID record for Tony Phillips. (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 ORCID record for John Turner, Phillips, Tony ORCID record for Tony Phillips, Hosking, J. Scott ORCID record for J. Scott Hosking, Marshall, Gareth J. ORCID record for Gareth J. Marshall, Orr, Andrew ORCID record for Andrew Orr. (2013) The Amundsen Sea low. International Journal of Climatology, 33. 1818-1829. doi:10.1002/joc.3558
Turner, John ORCID record for John Turner, Bracegirdle, Thomas J. ORCID record for Thomas J. Bracegirdle, Phillips, Tony ORCID record for Tony Phillips, Marshall, Gareth J. ORCID record for Gareth J. Marshall, Hosking, J. Scott ORCID record for J. Scott Hosking. (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. ORCID record for D.G. Vaughan, Steiner, N., Tedesco, M., Kuipers Munneke, P., van den Broeke, M.R., Hosking, J.S. ORCID record for J.S. Hosking. (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 ORCID record for Andrew Orr, Bracegirdle, Thomas J. ORCID record for Thomas J. Bracegirdle, Hosking, J. Scott ORCID record for J. Scott Hosking, 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 ORCID record for Andrew Orr, Bracegirdle, Thomas J. ORCID record for Thomas J. Bracegirdle, Hosking, J. Scott ORCID record for J. Scott Hosking, Jung, Thomas, Haigh, Joanna D., Phillips, Tony ORCID record for Tony Phillips, 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. ORCID record for J.S. Hosking, 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
- 1.5 Degree Challenge
- Water Resources of the Upper Indus Basin
- Artificial Intelligence Lab
- National Capability for Global Challenges
- ACSIS
- Cambridge Centre for Climate Science
- Filchner Ice Shelf System, Antarctica
More details on projects can be found here
2020
Inspiration for environmental AI projects
Blog 24 April, 2020
Earth Day 2020: A new age of Arctic science discovery – the AI way
Blog 24 April, 2020
2019
Official launch of the BAS AI Lab!
Blog 4 December, 2019
AI Lab presents at the First Artificial Intelligence for Copernicus Workshop
Blog 22 November, 2019
AI for Environmental Sciences
Blog 21 July, 2019
Data Study Group: Automated monitoring of seals via high-resolution satellite imagery
Blog 8 April, 2019
2017
Automated clustering of storm tracks for interpreting ice core records
Blog 22 August, 2017
How can machine learning techniques improve our understanding of climate change risks in the future?
Blog 22 February, 2017
2020
Knowledge Snack: Digital Twins of infrastructure and the environment
Event 11 November, 2020
Climate scientists help businesses tackle climate change
News 26 February, 2020
2019
Antarctic snowfall dominated by a few extreme snowstorms
News 25 March, 2019
Using AI to help tackle global environmental challenges
News 26 February, 2019
2018
European wind energy generation potential in a 1.5˚C world
News 17 May, 2018
Pint of Science – Big Data and Scientific Research
Event 14 May, 2018
FEATURED PAPER: Record temperature at Signy
News 19 February, 2018
2017
FEATURED PAPER: Temperature change in Sichuan
News 13 November, 2017
Storms caused massive Antarctic sea ice loss in 2016
News 23 June, 2017
2016
A recent pause in Antarctic Peninsula warming
News 20 July, 2016
FEATURED PAPER: Circulation changes off West Antarctica
News 17 March, 2016
2015
FEATURED PAPER: Recent snowfall increase
News 16 December, 2015
PRESS RELEASE: West Antarctica snow accumulation
News 4 November, 2015