Katharine Turner

The near-constant proportionality between surface warming and cumulative carbon emissions largely hinges on the compensation between the ocean's heat and carbon uptake. My PhD aims to understand, then, how global climate change can be understood through this compensation. I have been working with models of various complexities, ranging from idealised box models to intermediate-complexity Earth System Models, to understand how regional and global ocean behaviours dictate the compensation between ocean heat and carbon uptake and ultimately surface warming signals.