Martin King

MARTIN KING

Researcher at

Geophysical Institute UiB Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research Bergen Norway

martin.king@uib.no

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8152-0897

Research Areas

Forced and internal variabilities of atmospheric circulation and climate in North Atlantic-Europe area
Monsoon
Buoyancy-driven flows in natural and engineering systems

Miscellanea

A Bjerknes Centre research news article about the coming La Nina and seasonal forecast written by myself and others (Oct 2021)
A Bjerknes Centre research news article about super El Ninos impact on Europe written by myself (Mar 2020)

Bjerknes Centre homepage features our paper about 2 degree global warming completed in response to the Paris Agreement (May 2018)

Bjerknes Centre homepage features our new BAMS article (Mar 2018)

A movie of internal waves in a jar I made was the subject of a short article on the Bjerknes website in 2016.
What is the climate system?

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Why I made this sketch.

Computational Methods with MATLAB Exercises and Examples, 2022, [Book and Codes].

Research Description

Long-range atmospheric predictions beyond the weather timescales, including climate change, rely on physical origins of predictability in the climate system. Understanding these drivers and how they affect the climate helps to evaluate and improve our prediction systems. My current research focuses on processes in autumn and winter seasons that are relevant for subseasonal to seasonal predictability in the Northern Hemisphere. In particular, I study the influences of tropical sea surface temperature, such as El Nino-Southern Oscillation, and Arctic sea ice as climate drivers. The mechanisms, which are fundamentally important and interesting to study, can involve tropospheric propagations, troposphere-stratosphere interaction, or air-surface feedbacks. I have experience in numerical models, scientific computing, high-performance computing, and statistical and dynamical analyses.