Professor Liz Ritchie-Tyo

Bio

Liz Ritchie-Tyo is a Professor of Atmospheric Sciences in the School of Earth, Atmosphere & Environment. Prof. Ritchie’s broad research interests are tropical cyclones, tropical meteorology, extreme weather and climate impacts on societies. Her research interests include physical understanding, estimation, and prediction of tropical cyclogenesis, tropical cyclone structure and intensity change, the extratropical transition of tropical cyclones and their downstream impacts, and tropical cyclone landfall impacts on natural environments and societies. Her expertise includes climate and environmental impacts on extreme weather behaviour, weather phenomena, tropical cyclone storm surge and sedimentation from fresh-water inundation.