Research areas
I lead the Climate Dynamics Lab at the University of St Andrews. Our research addresses fundamental questions in atmospheric and climate dynamics, extreme temperatures, land-climate interactions, the water cycle and past & future climate change. Recently we have been working to understand how clouds and water vapour influence monsoons, the dynamics of the intertropical convergence zone, and why continents and oceans respond very differently to climate change. In our research we use a range of tools including theory, computational models of varying degree of complexity, and Earth-system observations. Check out our website and publications for further info!
PhD supervision
- Lucinda Palmer
- Andrew Chingos
- Josh Duffield
Selected publications
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A moist-thermal quasigeostrophic model for monsoon depressions
Chaudhri, A. K., Byrne, M. P. & Scott, R. K., 31 Mar 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. Early View, 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Climate models underestimate dynamic cloud feedbacks in the tropics
Hill, P. G., Holloway, C. E., Byrne, M. P., Lambert, F. H. & Webb, M. J., 16 Aug 2023, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 50, 15, 10 p., e2023GL104573.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Effects of circulation on tropical cloud feedbacks in high-resolution simulations
Mackie, A. & Byrne, M. P., 13 May 2023, In: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 15, 5, 16 p., e2022MS003516.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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High sensitivity of summer temperatures to stratospheric sulfur loading from volcanoes in the Northern Hemisphere
Burke, A., Crick, L., Anchukaitis, K. J., Innes, H., Byrne, M. P., Hutchison, W., McConnell, J. R., Moore, K. A., Rae, J. W. B., Sigl, M. & Wilson, R., 21 Nov 2023, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 120, 47, 8 p., e2221810120.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Increased uncertainty in projections of precipitation and evaporation due to wet‐get‐wetter/dry‐get‐drier biases
Adam, O., Shourky Wolff, M., Garfinkel, C. I. & Byrne, M. P., 19 Dec 2023, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 50, 24, 12 p., e2023GL106365.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Reduced tropical climate land area under global warming
Adam, O., Liberty‐Levi, N., Byrne, M. & Birner, T., 28 Mar 2023, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 50, 6, 9 p., e2022GL102546.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Tropical tropospheric warming pattern explained by shifts in convective heating in the Matsuno-Gill model
Keil, P., Schmidt, H., Stevens, B., Byrne, M. P., Segura, H. & Putrasahan, D., 1 Oct 2023, In: Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 149, 756, p. 2678-2695 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Latent heat must be visible in climate communications
Matthews, T., Byrne, M., Horton, R., Murphy, C., Pielke Sr, R., Raymond, C., Thorne, P. & Wilby, R. L., 14 Jul 2022, In: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change. 13, 4, 12 p., e779.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Amplified warming of extreme temperatures over tropical land
Byrne, M. P., Nov 2021, In: Nature Geoscience. 14, p. 837-841 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Advances in understanding large-scale responses of the water cycle to climate change
Allan, R. P., Barlow, M., Byrne, M. P., Cherchi, A., Douville, H., Fowler, H. J., Gan, T. Y., Pendergrass, A. G., Rosenfeld, D., Swann, A. L. S., Wilcox, L. J. & Zolina, O., 4 Apr 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Early View, 27 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review