News

Oct 2024: New perspective article on land-climate science published in Nature Geoscience!
Oct 2024: Mike was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in the Earth Sciences! Announcement here, St Andrews news item here.
Sep 2024: Mike visited ENS de Lyon, Reading and Exeter to present the Lab's research on extreme temperatures in a changing climate.
Aug 2024: Anna Mackie is presenting her work on how patterned SST warming impacts circulation and clouds at the ECS Symposium!
Jul 2024: Josh Duffield attended the Rossbypalooza Summer School on 'Climate and Extreme Events' at the University of Chicago.
Jun/Jul 2024 was again a busy conference season for the Lab!
- Josh Duffield presented his work on convective constraints on temperature distributions at AOFD in Burlington VT, USA.
- Anna Mackie presented her work on tropical circulation, cloud feedbacks and the pattern effect at the convective aggregation workshop at ICTP in Trieste, Italy.
- Mike presented work, in collaboration with Bill Boos and Shineng Hu, on the physical drivers of elevation-dependent warming at AOFD in Burlington VT, USA.
- Mike presented idealised work on land relative humidity under climate change, in collaboration with Josh Duffield and Paul O'Gorman, at the Continental Climate Workshop at Harvard University.
Hannah Ruskin-Dodd and Jacob Holder joined the Climate Dynamics Lab as undergraduate researchers working on temperature distributions. Welcome Hannah and Jacob!
May 2024: New paper on elevation-dependent warming published in Weather and Climate Dynamics!
Oct. 2023: Our new ERC/UKRI research projected on extreme temperatures was featured by U. St Andrews.
Jun/Jul 2023 was a busy conference season for the Climate Dynamics Lab, with a range of presentations:
- Mike presented idealised work on extreme temperatures, in collaboration with Josh Duffield, at the Continental Climate Workshop at Harvard University.
- Josh Duffield and Tim Marino presented their work on extreme temperatures and atmospheric superrotation, respectively, at the UK Climate Dynamics Conference in Birmingham.
- Emily van de Koot presented her work on monsoon-cloud interactions at the CFMIP/GASS meeting in Paris.
- Anna Mackie presented her work on cloud-circulation coupling in high-resolution simulations at the CFMIP/GASS meeting in Paris.
- Mike presented work, in collaboration with Bill Boos and Shineng Hu, on the physical drivers of elevation-dependent warming at a workshop in Paris.
Jun. 2023: Alex Chaudhri successfully defended his PhD on 8th June, congrats! Alex will soon begin a postdoc position at the University of Edinburgh.
Apr. 2023: Tim Marino is visiting us for a few months from ENS Lyon to work on atmospheric superrotation (in collaboration with Corentin Herbert). Welcome Tim!
Feb. 2023: Mike has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant to work on extreme tmeperatures & climate change!
Oct. 2022: Mike discusses extreme weater events & climate change on CNN
Oct. 2022: Mike presents about the physics of tropical heatwaves in a changing climate at a workshop on 'Climate & Weather Extremes' hosted by the Institute for Mathematical & Statistical Innovation at the University of Chicago
Jun. 2022: Carnegie Research Workshop on Continental Climate Change: St Andrews, June 2022
Jun. 2022: Alex Chaudhri and Mike deliver oral presentations at the AMS Conference on Atmospheric & Oceanic Fluid Dynamics in Breckenridge, Colorado!
Oct. 2021: Our new paper on extreme temperatures was published in Nature Geoscience and selected as a Research Highlight in Nature!
Aug. 2021: Selected coverage of our work on the IPCC AR6 report (BBC New, The Times, Irish Times, CNN, RTE News, The Scotsman, Daily Telegraph, University of St Andrews News)
Sep. 2020: Article on why continents are warming faster than oceans in Carbon Brief
Jan. 2019: Article on our monsoon research in Horizon magazine