Scott Hosking
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Scott Hosking
Environmental Data Scientist
Biography
Scott Hosking is an Environmental Data Scientist at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). 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
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Staff
- Tom Andersson – Machine Learner and 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
- 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
- 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
Alan Turing Institute (ATI) | Amazon | Google DeepMind | European Space Agency (ESA) | European Bank for Reconstruction and Developement | Max Fordham | Mott MacDonald | University of Cambridge | University of Lancaster | Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP) | Department of Business Environment, Innovation and Skills (BEIS) | Department of Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) | Department of International Development (DFID) | University College London | University of Exeter | National Oceanography Centre | UK Met Office | Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar & Marine Research | UCL Centre for Artificial Intelligence
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
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 Discussions. 10.5194/acp-2020-86
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, Thomas, Liz ORCID record for Liz Thomas, Wang, Zhaomin, van den Broeke, Michiel, Hosking, Scott ORCID record for Scott Hosking, 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 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
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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