Interests
I study the physics and dynamics of Earth's climate, focusing on interactions among the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere, and land across daily to millennial timescales. I also study how these interactions both respond to and influence climate change, including abrupt changes in radiative forcing, historical forcings, future emission scenarios, and orbital cycles that modify incoming solar radiation. My work thus spans a range of topics within climate science but tends to focus on the general circulation of the atmosphere and oceans, polar climate and sea ice, climate feedback mechanisms, the hydrological cycle, and energetic processes in the land, oceans, and atmosphere.
I use a range of computational tools and techniques, including comprehensive Earth system models, targeted experiments with climate models of varying complexity, mathematical conceptual models that provide simplified representations of underlying physical processes, and advanced statistical methods. These tools and techniques together allow me to develop theories that explain observed physical phenomena and the behavior of climate models.
Climate science is inherently interdisciplinary, as the atmosphere, oceans, cryosphere, and land are intimately coupled and influence Earth’s climate on a variety of timescales. I enjoy working and collaborating on research questions at the intersection of these components.
