Climate Physics

Research groups in this theme

Atmospheric Dynamics

Atmospheric Processes

Atmospheric Processes

Climate and Ocean Physics

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
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

University Lecturer
Laure Zanna

Visiting Professor
Raymond Pierrehumbert

Halley Professorship of Physics
Simon Proud

NERC Fellow
Jan Ackmann

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Daniel Befort

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Matthew Chantry

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Guy Dagan

Postdoctoral research assignment
Lucia Deaconu

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
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
Christopher O'Reilly

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Matt Patterson

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Adam Paxton

Postdoctoral Researcher
Anton Pershin

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Adam Povey

Research Assistant
Xianyu Tan

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Isabelle Taylor

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Duncan Watson-Parris

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Ryan Boukrouche

DPhil Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics
Helena Cotterill

Quantum Materials Outreach Officer & Graduate Student
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
Andrew Williams

Graduate Student (DTP)
Shipeng Zhang

Graduate Student
Tomos David

Visitor
Kristian Strommen

Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Publications

Locations and mechanisms of ocean ventilation in the high-latitude North Atlantic in an eddy-permitting o...
Journal of Climate American Meteorological Society (2020) 1-61
GA MacGilchrist, HL Johnson, DP Marshall et al.
Forecasting extreme stratospheric polar vortex events.
Nature communications 11 (2020) 4630-
L Gray, M Brown, J Knight et al.
Revisiting gradient wind balance in tropical cyclones using dropsonde observations
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society Wiley (2020) qj.3947
JL García‐Franco, J Schwendike
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.
The Southern Hemisphere sudden stratospheric warming of September 2019
Science Bulletin Elsevier BV (2020)
X Shen, L Wang, S Osprey
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 (AGU) (2020)
X Shen, L Wang, S Osprey
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 (AGU) 12 (2020)
M Klöwer, 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
The phase-curve signature of condensible water-rich atmospheres on slowly rotating tidally locked exoplan...
Astrophysical Journal Letters 901 (2020)
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.
Prediction of the quasi‐biennial oscillation with a multi‐model ensemble of QBO ‐...
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society Wiley (2020) qj.3919
TN Stockdale, Y Kim, JA Anstey et al.
The Equatorial Jet Speed on Tidally Locked Planets. I. Terrestrial Planets
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 901 (2020) ARTN 78
M Hammond, S-M Tsai, RT Pierrehumbert
Assessing the robustness of multidecadal variability in Northern Hemisphere wintertime 4 seasonal forecas...
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society Wiley (2020) qj.3890
CH O'Reilly, A Weisheimer, D MacLeod et al.
Global quieting of high-frequency seismic noise due to COVID-19 pandemic lockdown measures.
Science (New York, N.Y.) 369 (2020) 1338-1343
T Lecocq, SP Hicks, K Van Noten 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.
Ertel potential vorticity versus Bernoulli potential on approximately neutral surfaces in the Antarctic C...
Journal of Physical Oceanography American Meteorological Society (2020) 1-79
GJ Stanley, TE Dowling, ME Bradley et al.
The value of initialisation on decadal timescales
Journal of Climate American Meteorological Society 33 (2020) 7353-7370
H Christensen, J Berner, S Yeager
The Evaluation of the North Atlantic Climate System in UKESM1 Historical Simulations for CMIP6
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 12 (2020)
J Robson, Y Aksenov, TJ Bracegirdle et al.
Overview: The CLoud-Aerosol-Radiation Interaction and Forcing: Year- 2017 (CLARIFY-2017) measurement camp...
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions European Geosciences Union (2020)
JM Haywood, SJ Abel, P Barrett et al.
Quantifying the sensitivity of aerosol optical properties to the parameterizations of physico-chemical pr...
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Copernicus GmbH 20 (2020) 9679-9700
L Palacios-Peña, P Stier, R Lorente-Plazas et al.
Jet Speed Variability Obscures Euro‐Atlantic Regime Structure
Geophysical Research Letters American Geophysical Union (AGU) 47 (2020)
J Dorrington, K Strommen
The hemispheric contrast in cloud microphysical properties constrains aerosol forcing
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences National Academy of Sciences 117 (2020) 18998-19006
IL McCoy, D McCoy, R Wood et al.
Random Movement of Mesoscale Eddies in the Global Ocean
Journal of Physical Oceanography American Meteorological Society 50 (2020) 2341-2357
Q Ni, X Zhai, G Wang et al.
Beyond skill scores: exploring sub‐seasonal forecast value through a case‐study of French month‐ahead ene...
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society Wiley (2020) qj.3863
J Dorrington, I Finney, T Palmer et al.
Continuous Structural Parameterization
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems American Geophysical Union (AGU) (2020) e2020MS002085-e2020MS002085
F Lambert, P Challenor, N Lewis et al.
The SPARC Quasi‐Biennial Oscillation initiative
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society Wiley (2020) qj.3820
JA Anstey, N Butchart, K Hamilton et al.
Cloudy-sky contributions to the direct aerosol effect
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Copernicus GmbH 20 (2020) 8855-8865
G Myhre, BH Samset, CW Mohr et al.
The dynamics of a subglacial salt wedge
Journal of Fluid Mechanics Cambridge University Press 895 (2020) A20
EA Wilson, AJ Wells, IJ Hewitt et al.
Embeddedness of Timelike Maximal Surfaces in (1+2)-Minkowski Space
ANNALES HENRI POINCARE (2020)
EA Paxton
The American monsoon system in HadGEM3 and UKESM1
Weather and Climate Dynamics Copernicus Publications 1 (2020) 349-371
JL García-Franco, S Osprey, LJ Gray
The American Monsoon System in HadGEM3.0 and UKESM1 CMIP6
Weather and Climate Dynamics Copernicus GmbH (2020)
JL García-Franco, LJ Gray, S Osprey
An analysis of ways to decarbonize conference travel after COVID-19
Nature Nature Research 583 (2020) 356-360
D Hopkins, M Klower, J Higham et al.
An evaluation of tropical waves and wave forcing of the QBO in the QB...
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society Wiley (2020) qj.3827
LA Holt, F Lott, RR Garcia et al.
Assessing California wintertime precipitation responses to various climate drivers
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres American Geophysical Union 125 (2020) e2019JD031736
RJ Allen, J-F Lamarque, D Watson-Parris et al.
Thermodynamic and energetic limits on continental silicate weathering strongly impact the climate and hab...
Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society 896 (2020) 115
R Graham, R Pierrehumbert
The significant role of biomass burning aerosols in clouds and radiation in the South-eastern Atlantic Oc...
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Copernicus Publications (2020)
H Che, P Stier, H Gordon et al.
Euro-Atlantic weather Regimes in the PRIMAVERA coupled climate simulations
Climate Dynamics Springer Science and Business Media LLC 54 (2020) 5031-5048
F Fabiano, H Christensen, K Strommen et al.
Short-term tests validate long-term estimates of climate change
Nature Springer Nature 582 (2020) 185-186
T Palmer
Improvements in Circumpolar Southern Hemisphere Extratropical Atmospheric Circulation in CMIP6 Compared t...
Earth and Space Science American Geophysical Union (AGU) (2020)
T Bracegirdle, C Holmes, J Hosking et al.
Historical Simulations With HadGEM3-GC3.1 for CMIP6
JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN MODELING EARTH SYSTEMS 12 (2020) ARTN e2019MS001995
MB Andrews, JK Ridley, RA Wood et al.
Reducing the aerosol forcing uncertainty using observational constraints on warm rain processes
Science Advances (2020)
J Mülmenstädt, C Nam, M Salzmann et al.
Constraining uncertainty in aerosol direct forcing
Geophysical Research Letters American Geophysical Union 47 (2020) e2020GL087141
D Watson-Parris, N Bellouin, L Deaconu et al.
Constraining the Twomey effect from satellite observations: issues and perspectives
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions European Geosciences Union (2020)
J Quaas, A Antti, B Cairns et al.
Rethinking superdeterminism
Frontiers in Physics Frontiers 8 (2020) 139
S Hossenfelder, T Palmer
Discretization of the Bloch sphere, fractal invariant sets and Bell's theorem.
Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences The Royal Society 476 (2020) 20190350
T Palmer
Progress in simulating the Quasi-biennial Oscillation in CMIP models
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres American Geophysical Union (AGU) (2020) e2019JD032362-e2019JD032362
JH Richter, JA Anstey, N Butchart et al.
Multi-thousand member ensemble atmospheric simulations with global 60km resolution using climatepredictio...
EGU General Assembly 2020 Copernicus GmbH (2020) 10895
P Watson, S Sparrow, W Ingram et al.
Global response of parameterised convective cloud fields to anthropogenic aerosol forcing
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Copernicus GmbH 20 (2020) 4445-4460
Z Kipling, L Labbouz, P Stier
Atmospheric energy budget response to idealized aerosol perturbation in tropical cloud systems
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Copernicus GmbH 20 (2020) 4523-4544
G Dagan, P Stier, M Christensen et al.
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