Examining how rain-baring precipitation systems change during drought, including the role of extreme precipitation in drought development and recovery.
Exploring how climate models simulate drought, including those synoptic-scale processes important for drought development.
Identifying and understanding flash drought (rapid-onset drought)
Exploring how and why drought might change with climate change, and realising the limitations that climate models have in their representation of drought-related processes on the synoptic scale.
Interpreting variability in the pre-instrumental climate using palaeoclimate data, and determining dynamical explanations for past climate variability, with a focus on the last 2000 years.
