Dr Michael Byrne

Lecturer in Earth Surface Processes

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 463914

Email

mpb20@st-andrews.ac.uk

Research areas

My research addresses fundamental questions in atmospheric and climate dynamics, land-climate interactions, the water cycle, and past & future climate change. Recently I have been working to understand the role of atmospheric circulations in climate sensitivity, the dynamics of the intertropical convergence zone, and why continents and oceans respond very differently to climate change. In my research I use a range of tools including theory, computational models of varying degree of complexity, and Earth-system observations.

PhD supervision

• Alexander Chaudhri

Selected publications

• 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, In : Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Early View, 27 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Review article

• Controls on the width of tropical precipitation and its contraction under global warming

  Donohoe, A., Atwood, A. R. & Byrne, M. P., 29 Aug 2019, In : Geophysical Research Letters. Early View, 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Dynamics of ITCZ width: Ekman processes, non-Ekman processes, and links to sea surface temperature

  Byrne, M. P. & Thomas, R., Sep 2019, In : Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 76, 9, p. 2869-2884 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Atmospheric dynamics feedback: concept, simulations and climate implications

  Byrne, M. & Schneider, T., 26 Mar 2018, In : Journal of Climate. 31, 8, p. 3249-3264

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Response of the intertropical convergence zone to climate change: location, width and strength

  Byrne, M. P., Pendergrass, A., Rapp, A. & Wodzicki, K., 9 Aug 2018, In : Current Climate Change Reports. First Online, 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Trends in continental temperature and humidity directly linked to ocean warming

  Byrne, M. P. & O'Gorman, P. A., 8 May 2018, In : Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 115, 19, p. 4863-4868 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Warm and cold wet-states in the western United States during the Pliocene-Pleistocene

  Ibarra, D., Oster, J., Winnick, M., Caves Rugenstein, J., Byrne, M. P. & Chamberlain, P., 15 Feb 2018, In : Geology. 46, 4, p. 355-358 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Energetic constraints on the width of the intertropical convergence zone

  Byrne, M. P. & Schneider, T., Jul 2016, In : Journal of Climate. 29, 13, p. 4709-4721 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Narrowing of the ITCZ in a warming climate: physical mechanisms

  Byrne, M. P. & Schneider, T., 16 Nov 2016, In : Geophysical Research Letters. 43, 21, p. 11350-11357 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Thermodynamic and dynamic controls on changes in the zonally anomalous hydrological cycle

  Wills, R., Byrne, M. P. & Schneider, T., 16 May 2016, In : Geophysical Research Letters. 43, 9

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

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