Climate Physics

Research groups in this theme

Atmospheric Dynamics

Atmospheric Processes

Atmospheric Processes

Climate Dynamics

Climate Processes

Earth Observation Data Group

Ice and Fluid Dynamics

Fluid mechanics and thermodynamics of the cryosphere and oceans

Physical Oceanography

Predictability of Weather and Climate

Stratosphere and Climate

Stratospheric dynamics and their influence on surface climate

People

Myles Allen

Statutory Professor
Hannah Christensen

Associate Professor
Roy Grainger

Reader in Atmospheric Physics
Lesley Gray

Professor of Climate Physics
David Marshall

Professor
Scott Osprey

NCAS Scientist
Tim Palmer

Royal Society Research Professor
Philip Stier

Professor of Atmospheric Physics
Antje Weisheimer

Senior NCAS Research Fellow
Andrew Wells

Associate Professor
Tim Woollings

Professor of Physical Climate Science
Raymond Pierrehumbert

Halley Professorship of Physics
Simon Proud

NERC Fellow
Daniel Befort

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Guy Dagan

Postdoctoral research assignment
Alyson Douglas

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Ross Herbert

Post Doctoral Research Assistant
Peter Manshausen

Graduate Student
Andrew McRae

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Beatriz Monge-Sanz

Research Scientist
Matt Patterson

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Adam Paxton

Postdoctoral Researcher
Anton Pershin

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Adam Povey

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Xianyu Tan

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Isabelle Taylor

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Duncan Watson-Parris

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Jan Ackmann
Ryan Boukrouche

DPhil Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics
Oscar Dimdore-Miles

Graduate student
Beth Dingley

Graduate student (DTP)
Josh Dorrington

Graduate student (DTP)
Jorge Garcia-Franco

Graduate Student
Fraser Goldsworth

Graduate student (DTP)
William Jones

Graduate Student (DTP)
Milan Kloewer

Graduate Student (DTP)
Tom Langton

Graduate Student (DTP)
Syarif Romadhon

Graduate student
George Spill

Graduate student (DTP)
Adam Stanway

Graduate Student (DTP)
Kevin Thielen

3rd year DPhil student
Rhidian Thomas

AOPP student
Andrew Williams

Graduate Student (DTP)
Shipeng Zhang

Graduate Student
Kristian Strommen

Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Publications

Biomass burning aerosols in most climate models are too absorbing
Nature Communications Nature Research (part of Springer Nature) (2021)
H Brown, X Liu, R Pokhrel et al.
Demons in the North Atlantic: Variability of deep ocean ventilation
Geophysical Research Letters American Geophysical Union (AGU) (2021)
G MacGilchrist, HL JOHNSON, C Lique et al.
A wavelet transform method to determine monsoon onset and retreat from precipitation time‐series
International Journal of Climatology Wiley (2021)
JL García‐Franco, S Osprey, LJ Gray
Machine learning for weather and climate are worlds apart.
Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences 379 (2021) 20200098-
D Watson-Parris
An Idealised Model Study of Eddy Energetics in the Western Boundary ‘Graveyard’
Journal of Physical Oceanography American Meteorological Society (2021)
Z Yang, X Zhai, DP Marshall et al.
Impacts of varying concentrations of cloud condensation nuclei on deep convective cloud updrafts
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences American Meteorological Society 78 (2021) 1147-1172
P Marinescu, S van den Heever, M Heikenfeld et al.
A large-scale analysis of pockets of open cells and their radiative impact
Geophysical Research Letters American Geophysical Union (2021)
D Watson-Parris, S Sutherland, M Christensen et al.
Representing model uncertainty in multi‐annual predictions
Geophysical Research Letters Wiley (2020)
DJ Befort, C O'Reilly, A Weisheimer
Origins of multi-decadal variability in sudden stratospheric warmings
Weather and Climate Dynamics Copernicus Publications 2 (2021) 205-231
O Dimdore-Miles, L Gray, S Osprey
Vertically resolved magma ocean–protoatmosphere evolution
Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets American Geophysical Union (2021)
T Lichtenberg, DJ Bower, M Hammond et al.
Scale‐aware space‐time stochastic parameterization of subgrid‐scale velocity enhancement of sea surface f...
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems American Geophysical Union (AGU) (2021)
J Bessac, HM Christensen, K Endo et al.
Climate impacts of COVID‐19 induced emission changes
Geophysical Research Letters Wiley 48 (2021) e2020GL091805
A Gettelman, R Lamboll, C Bardeen et al.
Machine learning for weather and climate are worlds apart
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences The Royal Society 379 (2021) 20200098
D Watson-Parris
Atmospheric circulation of brown dwarfs and directly imaged exoplanets driven by cloud radiative feedback...
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (2021)
X Tan, AP Showman
Forecast skill of the Indian monsoon and its onset in the ECMWF seasonal forecasting system 5 (SEAS5)
Climate Dynamics Springer (2021)
A Chevuturi, A Turner, S Johnson et al.
An overview of the ORACLES (ObseRvations of Aerosols above CLouds and their intEractionS) project
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Copernicus Publications 21 (2021) 1507-1563
J Redemann, SJ Doherty, B Luna et al.
An overview of the ORACLES (ObseRvations of Aerosols above CLouds and their intEractionS) project
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Copernicus GmbH 21 (2021) 1507-1563
J Redemann, R Wood, P Zuidema et al.
Impact of stochastic physics and model resolution on the simulation of tropical cyclones in climate GCMs
Journal of Climate American Meteorological Society (2021)
P Vidale, K Hodges, B Vanniere et al.
The annual cycle of upper-ocean potential vorticity and its relationship to submesoscale instabilities
Journal of Physical Oceanography American Meteorological Society 51 (2021) 385-402
X Yu, A Naveira Garabato, A Martin et al.
Atmospheric circulation of brown dwarfs and directly imaged exoplanets driven by cloud radiative feedback...
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 502 (2021) 678-699
X Tan, AP Showman
The CLoud–Aerosol–Radiation Interaction and Forcing: Year 2017 (CLARIFY-2017) measurement campaign
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Copernicus Publications 21 (2021) 1049-1084
SJ Abel, PA Barrett, N Bellouin et al.
The representation of winter Northern Hemisphere atmospheric blocking in the ECMWF seasonal prediction sy...
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society Wiley (2021) qj.3974
P Davini, A Weisheimer, M Balmaseda et al.
Cloud adjustments dominate the overall negative aerosol radiative effects of biomass burning aerosols in ...
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Copernicus Publications 21 (2021) 17-33
H Che, P Stier, H Gordon et al.
Revisiting gradient wind balance in tropical cyclones using dropsonde observations
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society Wiley (2020) qj.3947
J Garcia-Franco, J Schwendike
Description and evaluation of aerosol in UKESM1 and HadGEM3-GC3.1 CMIP6 historical simulations
Geoscientific Model Development Copernicus Publications 13 (2020) 6383-6423
C Jones, A Povey, C Scott et al.
OpenEnsemble 1.0: a boon for the research community
Geoscientific Model Development Discussions Copernicus Publications (2020)
H Christensen
Wintertime Southern Hemisphere jet streams shaped by interaction of transient eddies with Antarctic orogr...
Journal of Climate Wiley 33 (2020) 10505-10522
M Patterson, T Woollings, T Bracegirdle et al.
Constraining the Twomey effect from satellite observations: issues and perspectives
ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS Copernicus GmbH 20 (2020) 15079-15099
J Quaas, A Arola, B Cairns et al.
Constraining the Twomey effect from satellite observations: issues and perspectives
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions European Geosciences Union 20 (2020) 15079-15099
J Quaas, A Antti, B Cairns et al.
Autonomous balloons take flight with artificial intelligence
Nature Nature Research 588 (2020) 33-34
SM Osprey
Atmospheric dynamics of hot giant planets and brown dwarfs
Space Science Reviews Springer 216 (2020) 139
AP Showman, X Tan, V Parmentier
Forecasting extreme stratospheric polar vortex events
Nature Communications Springer Nature 11 (2020) 4630
LJ Gray, M Brown, J Knight et al.
Resolving and parameterising the ocean mesoscale in earth system models
Current Climate Change Reports Springer Nature 6 (2020) 137-152
H Hewitt, M Roberts, P Mathiot et al.
Aerosol forcing masks and delays the formation of the North-Atlantic warming hole by three decades
Geophysical Research Letters American Geophysical Union 47 (2020) e2020GL090778
G Dagan, P Stier, D Watson-Parris
Thermal convection over fractal surfaces
Journal of Fluid Mechanics Cambridge University Press 907 (2020) A12
S Toppaladoddi, A Wells, CR Doering et al.
Calibrating large-ensemble European climate projections using observational data
Earth System Dynamics Copernicus Publications 11 (2020) 1033-1049
C O'Reilly, D Befort, A Weisheimer
Calibrating large-ensemble European climate projections using observational data
Earth System Dynamics 11 (2020) 1033-1049
C O’Reilly, D Befort, A Weisheimer
The Southern Hemisphere midlatitude circulation response to rapid adjustments and sea surface temperature...
Journal of Climate American Meteorological Society 33 (2020) 9673-9690
T Wood, A Maycock, P Forster et al.
Modeling sea ice
Notices of the American Mathematical Society American Mathematical Society 67 (2020) 1535-1555
K Golden, L Bennetts, E Cherkaev et al.
An AeroCom–AeroSat study: intercomparison of satellite AOD datasets for aerosol model evaluation
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Copernicus GmbH 20 (2020) 12431-12457
N Schutgens, AM Sayer, A Heckel et al.
Tropospheric forcing of the 2019 Antarctic sudden stratospheric warming
Geophysical Research Letters American Geophysical Union 47 (2020) e2020GL089343
X Shen, L Wang, S Osprey
Prediction of the quasi‐biennial oscillation with a multi‐model ensemble of QBO‐resolving models
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society Wiley (2020)
TN Stockdale, Y Kim, JA Anstey et al.
Number formats, error mitigation, and scope for 16‐bit arithmetics in weather and climate modeling analyz...
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems American Geophysical Union 12 (2020) e2020MS002246
P Düben, T Palmer
Atmospheric circulation of tidally locked gas giants with increasing rotation and implications for white ...
Astrophysical Journal 902 (2020)
X Tan, AP Showman
Atmospheric circulation of tidally locked gas giants with increasing rotation and implications for white-...
Astrophysical Journal IOP Publishing 902 (2020) 27
X Tan, AP Showman
The Phase-curve Signature of Condensible Water-rich Atmospheres on Slowly Rotating Tidally Locked Exoplan...
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS 901 (2020) ARTN L33
F Ding, RT Pierrehumbert
The Impact of Ensemble Meteorology on Inverse Modeling Estimates of Volcano Emissions and Ash Dispersion ...
Atmosphere MDPI AG 11 (2020) 1022-1022
NJ Harvey, HF Dacre, HN Webster et al.
Forword by the CI 2020 workshop Chairs
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (2020) IV-
D Watson-Parris, A Charantonis
The 2020 Climate Informatics Hackathon
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (2020) 134-138
WK Jones, R Lguensat, A Charantonis et al.
Cloud_cci ATSR-2 and AATSR data set version 3
Earth System Science Data Copernicus Publications 12 (2020) 2121-2135
C Poulsen, G McGarragh, G Thomas et al.
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