publications

2025

1. 

   On convective penetration of a buoyant plume into a stratified layer

   Charles Powell

   PhD Thesis, University of Cambridge , 2025

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2. 

   Poster: The origin of internal waves from overshooting convective plumes

   Charles Powell, Bruce Sutherland, Peter Haynes, and 1 more author

   In QBOi-SNAP-QUOCA workshop , Cambridge, UK, Mar 2025

   Awarded Poster

   ECR best poster prize

3. 

   Moisture transport by convective overshoots in the tropical tropopause layer

   Charles Powell, Peter Haynes, Alison Ming, and 1 more author

   Weather, Jun 2025

   PDF Website

4. 

   Internal waves generated by a plume impinging on a stratified fluid

   Charles Powell, Bruce Sutherland, Peter Haynes, and 1 more author

   Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Mar 2025

   Bib PDF Website

   @article{powell2025_igw,
     title = {Internal waves generated by a plume impinging on a stratified fluid},
     volume = {1006},
     doi = {10.1017/jfm.2025.40},
     journal = {Journal of Fluid Mechanics},
     author = {Powell, Charles and Sutherland, Bruce and Haynes, Peter and Taylor, John},
     year = {2025},
     month = mar,
     pages = {R2},
   }

2024

1. 

   Hurricane Season 2024 Retrospective

   Charles Powell, and Ruth Petrie

   Dec 2024

   Website

2. 

   Diagnosing tracer transport in convective penetration of a stably stratified layer

   Charles Powell, Peter Haynes, and John Taylor

   Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Oct 2024

   Bib PDF Website

   @article{powell2024,
     author = {Powell, Charles and Haynes, Peter and Taylor, John},
     title = {Diagnosing tracer transport in convective penetration of a stably stratified layer},
     journal = {Journal of Fluid Mechanics},
     year = {2024},
     month = oct,
     volume = {997},
     number = {A48},
     doi = {10.1017/jfm.2024.662},
   }

3. 

   Poster: Minimal moisture models in convective penetration of a stably stratified layer

   Charles Powell, Peter Haynes, and John Taylor

   In UK Climate Dynamics Workshop , Bath, UK, Jul 2024

   Poster

2023

1. 

   Poster: Diagnosing tracer transport in convective penetration of a stably stratified layer

   Charles Powell, Peter Haynes, and John Taylor

   In American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics , Washington D.C., Nov 2023

   Poster

2. 

   Essay: Penetration of convective plumes into a stably stratified layer: turbulent mixing & tracer transport

   Charles Powell

   Jan 2023

   Awarded PDF

   Smith-Knight / Rayleigh-Knight Prize 2023

2022

1. 

   Poster: Penetration of convective plumes into a strongly stably stratified region

   Charles Powell, Peter Haynes, and John Taylor

   In IXth International Symposium on Stratified Flows & 7th SPARC General Assembly , Cambridge & Reading, UK, Oct 2022

   Poster

2021

1. 

   Essay: The Stratospheric Quasi-Biennial Oscillation

   Charles Powell

   May 2021

   Awarded PDF

   Distinction, Part III. Mathematical Tripos

2019

1. 

   Automated Spectrogram Analysis for Meteor Head Echoes

   Charles Powell

   WGN, Journal of the International Meteor Organization, Apr 2019

   Bib PDF Website

   @article{powell2019,
     author = {Powell, Charles},
     title = {{Automated Spectrogram Analysis for Meteor Head Echoes}},
     journal = {WGN, Journal of the International Meteor Organization},
     year = {2019},
     month = apr,
     volume = {47},
     number = {2},
     pages = {55-65},
     adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System},
   }

2018

1. 

   International Meteor Conference 2018 report

   Charles Powell

   WGN, Journal of the International Meteor Organization, Oct 2018

   PDF Website

2017

1. 

   Temporal and Spatial Variation of Meteor Flux in Radio Data

   Charles Powell, and Kristina Veljkovic

   WGN, Journal of the International Meteor Organization, Aug 2017

   Bib PDF Website

   @article{powell2017_2,
     author = {Powell, Charles and Veljkovic, Kristina},
     title = {{Temporal and Spatial Variation of Meteor Flux in Radio Data}},
     journal = {WGN, Journal of the International Meteor Organization},
     year = {2017},
     month = aug,
     volume = {45},
     number = {4},
     pages = {73-81},
     adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System},
   }

2. 

   Modelling & analysis of diurnal variation in meteor flux

   Charles Powell

   WGN, Journal of the International Meteor Organization, Apr 2017

   Bib PDF

   @article{powell2017,
     author = {Powell, Charles},
     title = {{Modelling & analysis of diurnal variation in meteor flux}},
     journal = {WGN, Journal of the International Meteor Organization},
     year = {2017},
     month = apr,
     volume = {45},
     number = {2},
     pages = {32-37},
     webstie = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017JIMO...45...32P},
     adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System},
   }