Interests
My research investigates the physics of Earth's climate and how it changes over time, with a focus on interactions among the atmosphere, oceans, cryosphere, and land surface. I study how these interactions both respond to and influence climate change, including variations in carbon dioxide concentrations and orbital changes that alter incoming solar radiation. While my work spans many aspects of climate science, I focus particularly on atmospheric and oceanic circulation, polar climate and sea ice, radiation and feedback mechanisms, the hydrological cycle, and energetic processes across the land, ocean, 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. Together, these approaches 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 timescales ranging from days to millennia. I enjoy working on and collaborating around research questions that lie at the intersection of these components.
