Dr Eleanor Blyth

Dr Eleanor Blyth

Land Surface Modeller

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Maclean Building
Benson Lane
Crowmarsh Gifford
Wallingford
Oxfordshire
OX10 8BB
T: +44 (0)1491 838800
F: +44 (0)1491 692424
E-mail: Dr Eleanor Blyth
 

Background

My background is in representing the land surface in meteorological and hydrological models. I have expertise in the relevant processes: evaporation, soil processes, the generation of runoff and also photosynthesis. One activity is to use data from different biomes of the world to test and calibrate the existing JULES (Joint UK Land Environment Simulator). In addition, research interests include assessing methods to represent heterogeneous terrain (snow, vegetation, soil moisture, topography) and changing the representation of key hydrological processes.

Current research

  • Representation of arctic and sub-arctic processes. This includes snow, soil freezing and the hydrological functioning of organic soils
  • Responsible for coordinating the science in JULES
  • Creating a Benchmarking system to test and improve land surface models applied globally
  • Studying feedbacks in the climate system that affect water resources

Positions held:

  • Member of the GEWEX (Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment) Science Steering Group
  • Member of GEWEX-GLASS representing Benchmarking
  • Science Coordinator of JULES
  • Co-chair of IAHS Hydrometeorology Working Group
  • UK IAHS committee: Coupled Land-Atmosphere Systems / Hydrometeorology
  • QUEST IT (Quantifying and Understanding the Earth System Integrating Team)
  • Head of Land Surface Processes group at CEH, UK
  • Coordinator of ILAMB: International Land Atmosphere Model Benchmarking
  • Work-Block leader on Feedbacks in the Global Water Cycle for WATCH (EU IP)

 

 

 

Selected publications

For recent publications, please see the NERC Open Research Archive.

2009 and earlier

Blyth, E.M., Gash, J.H.C., Lloyd, A., Pryor, M., Weedon, G.P. and Shuttleworth, J.W. (2009) Evaluating the JULES model with Fluxnet data. Journal of Hydrometeorology. In press.

Blyth, E.M., Shuttleworth, W.J. and Harding, R.J. (2009) Summary of the GEWEX international symposium on global land-surface evaporation and climate. Hydrological Processes, vol. 23, issue 23, 3411-3412

Blyth, E.M. (2008) Modelling catchment scale evaporation – what are the errors? Chapter in book: Water Resource Research Progress. Nova Publishers. ISBN: 1-60021-973-X

Wolf, A., Blyth, E., Harding, R., Jacob, D., Keup, E. & Callaghan, T.  (2008) Sensitivity of an ecosystem model to hydrology and temperature. Climatic Change, 87, 75-89

Roderfeld, H., Blyth, E., Dankers, R., Huse, G., Slagstad, D., Ellingsen, I., Wolf, A., Zockler, C. & Lange, M. (2008) Potential impact of climate change on ecosystems of the Barents Sea region. Climatic Change, 87, 283-303

Onuchin, A., Balzter, H., Borisova H. and Blyth, E. (2006) Climatic and geographic patterns of river runoff formation in Northern Eurasia. Advances in Water Resources, 29, 1314-1327

Blyth, E.M., J.G. Evans, J.W. Finch, R. Bantges and R.J. Harding, (2006) Spatial variability of the English agricultural landscape and its effect on evaporation. Forest Ag Met, 138, 19-28

Essery, R., Blyth, E., Harding, R., Lloyd, C.  (2005) Modelling albedo and distributed snowmelt across a low hill in Svalbard. Nordic Hydrology, 36, 207-218

Blyth, E.M., Finch, J., Robinson, M. and Rosier, P. (2004) Can soil moisture be mapped onto the terrain? HESS 8, 923-930.

Harding, R.J., Jackson, N.A., Blyth, E.M. and Culf, A. (2002) Evaporation and energy balance of a sub-Arctic hillslope in northern Finland. Hyd Proc. 16, 1419-1436

Taylor, C.M. and Blyth, E.M. (2000) Rainfall controls on evaporation at the regional scale: An example from the Sahel. J. Geo Res – atmos. 105, 15469-15479.

Blyth, E.M. (1999) Estimating potential evaporation over a hill. B. Lay. Met. 92, 185-193.

Blyth, E.M., Harding, R.J. and Essery, R. (1999) A coupled dual source GCM SVAT. HESS. 3, 71-84.

Blyth, E.M. and Dolman, A.J. (1995) The roughness length for heat of sparse vegetation. J. Appl. Met. 34, 583-585

Blyth, E.M. (1995) Using a simple SVAT scheme to describe the effect of scale on aggregation. B. Lay. Met. 72, 267-285.

Blyth, E.M., Dolman, A.J. and Wood, N. (1993) Effective resistance to sensible heat and latent heat flux in heterogeneous terrain. QJRMS. 119, 423-442.