Dr Mike Byrne

Deputy Head of School

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Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 3996

Email

mpb20@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

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!

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PhD supervision

• Andrew Chingos
• Khushi Dani
• Josh Duffield
• Freya Gibbon
• Lucinda Palmer

Selected publications

• Open access

  Changes in the regional water cycle and their impact on societies

  Lambert, F. H., Allan, R. P., Behrangi, A., Byrne, M. P., Ceppi, P., Chadwick, R., Durack, P. J., Fosser, G., Fowler, H. J., Greve, P., Lee, T., Mutton, H., O'Gorman, P. A., Osborne, J. M., Pendergrass, A. G., Reager, J. T., Stier, P., Swann, A. L. S., Todd, A. & Vicente-Serrano, S. M. & 1 others, Stephens, G. L., 3 Apr 2025, In: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change. 16, 2, 21 p., e70005.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

• Open access

  Circulation and cloud responses to patterned SST warming

  Mackie, A., Byrne, M. P., Van de Koot, E. K. & Williams, A. I. L., 28 Apr 2025, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 52, 8, 10 p., e2024GL112543.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

• Open access

  Climate impacts of equatorial superrotation

  Marino, T., Byrne, M. P. & Herbert, C., 9 Apr 2025, arXiv, 40 p.

  Research output: Working paper › Preprint

• State of the climate in 2024

  Blunden, J. (Editor), Reagan, J. (Editor), Dunn, R. J. H. (Editor) & Byrne, M. P., 1 Aug 2025, In: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 106, 8, p. Si-S513 527 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Tropical cloud feedbacks estimated from observed multidecadal trends

  Van de Koot, E. K., Byrne, M. P. & Woollings, T., 15 Jul 2025, In: Journal of Climate. 38, 14, p. 3185-3199 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Tropical temperature distributions over a wide range of climates: theory and idealized simulations

  Duffield, J. A. M. & Byrne, M. P., 9 May 2025.

  Research output: Working paper › Preprint

• Open access

  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

• Open access

  Elevation-dependent warming: observations, models, and energetic mechanisms

  Byrne, M. P., Boos, W. R. & Hu, S., 22 May 2024, In: Weather and Climate Dynamics. 5, 2, p. 763-777 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Global climate

  Dunn, R. J. H. (Editor), Blannin, J. (Editor), Gobron, N. (Editor), Miller, J. B. (Editor), Willett, K. M. (Editor), Ades, M., Adler, R., Alexe, M., Allan, R. P., Anderson, J., Anneville, O., Aono, Y., Arguez, A., Armenteras Pascual, D., Arosio, C., Asher, E., Augustine, J. A., Azorin-Molina, C., Baez-Villanueva, O. M. & Barichivich, J. & 216 others, Beck, H. E., Bellouin, N., Benedetti, A., Blenkinsop, S., Bock, O., Bodin, X., Bonte, O., Bosilovich, M. G., Boucher, O., Buehler, S. A., Byrne, M. P., Campos, D., Cappucci, F., Carrea, L., Chang, K.-L., Christiansen, H. H., Christy, J. R., Chung, E.-S., Ciasto, L. M., Clingan, S., Coldewey-Egbers, M., Cooper, O. R., Cornes, R. C., Covey, C., Crétaux, J.-F., Crimmins, T., Crotwell, M., Culpepper, J., Cusicanqui, D., Davis, S., de Jeu, R. A. M., Degenstein, D., Delaloye, R., DiGangi, E., Dokulil, M. T., Donat, M. G., Dorigo, W. A., Duchemin, D., Dugan, H., Durre, I., Dutton, G., Duveiller, G., Estilow, T. W., Estrella, N., Fereday, D., Fioletov, V. E., Flemming, J., Foster, M. J., Frederikse, T., Frith, S. M., Froidevaux, L., Füllekrug, M., Garforth, J., Garg, J., Godin-Beekmann, S., Goodman, S., Goto, A., Grimm, A., Gruber, A., Gu, G., Guglielmin, M., Hahn, S., Haimberger, L., Hall, B. D., Harlan, M. E., Harris, I., Hemming, D. L., Hirschi, M., Ho, S.-P., Holzworth, R., Horton, R. M., Hrbáček, F., Hu, G., Hurst, D., Inness, A., Isaksen, K., John, V. O., Jones, P. D., Junod, R., Kääb, A., Kaiser, J. W., Kaufmann, V., Kellerer-Pirklbauer, A., Khaykin, S., Kidd, R., King, T. V., Kipling, Z., Koppa, A., Kraemer, B. M., La Fuente, R. S., Laas, A., Lan, X., Lantz, K. O., Lapierre, J., Lavers, D. A., Leblanc, T., Leibensperger, E., Lennard, C., Liley, B., Liu, Y., Lo, Y. T. E., Loeb, N. G., Loyola, D., Magnin, F., Matsuzaki, S.-I., Matthews, T., Mayer, M., McCarthy, M., McVicar, T. R., Mears, C. A., Menzel, A., Merchant, C. J., Merio, L.-J., Meyer, M. F., Miralles, D. G., Montzka, S. A., Morice, C., Morino, I., Mrekaj, I., Mühle, J., Nance, D., Nicolas, J. P., Noetzli, J., Noll, B., O’Keefe, J., Osborn, T. J., Parrington, M., Pellet, C., Pelto, M. S., Petersen, K., Phillips, C., Pierson, D., Pinto, I., Po-Chedley, S., Pogliotti, P., Polvani, L., Preimesberger, W., Price, C., Randel, W. J., Raymond, C., Rémy, S., Ricciardulli, L., Richardson, A. D., Robinson, D. A., Rodell, M., Rodriguez-Fernandez, N., Rogers, C. D. W., Rohini, P., Rosenlof, K., Rozanov, A., Rozkošný, J., Rusanovskaya, O. O., Rutishauser, T., Sabeerali, C. T., Said, R., Sakai, T., Sánchez-Lugo, A., Sawaengphokhai, P., Schenzinger, V., Schlegel, R. W., Schmid, M., Seneviratne, S. I., Sezaki, F., Shao, X., Sharma, S., Shi, L., Shimaraeva, S. V., Shinohara, R., Silow, E. A., Simmons, A. J., Smith, S. L., Soden, B. J., Sofieva, V., Soldo, L., Sreejith, O. P., Stackhouse Jr., P. W., Stauffer, R., Steinbrecht, W., Steiner, A. K., Stoy, P. C., Stradiotti, P., Streletskiy, D. A., Taha, G., Thackeray, S. J., Thibert, E., Timofeyev, M. A., Tourpali, K., Tronquo, E., Tye, M. R., van der A, R., van der Schalie, R., van der Schrier, G., van Vliet, A. J. H., Verburg, P., Vernier, J.-P., Vimont, I. J., Virts, K., Vivero, S., Vömel, H., Vose, R. S., Wang, R. H. J., Warnock, T., Weber, M., Wiese, D. N., Wild, J. D., Williams, E., Wong, T., Woolway, R. I., Yin, X., Zeng, Z., Zhao, L., Zhong, F., Ziemke, J. R., Ziese, M., Zotta, R. M. & Zou, C.-Z., 1 Aug 2024, In: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 105, 8, p. S12-S155 144 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Impact of ITCZ width on global climate: ITCZ-MIP

  Pendergrass, A. G., Byrne, M. P., Watt-Meyer, O., Maher, P. & Webb, M. J., 29 Aug 2024, In: Geoscientific Model Development. 17, 16, p. 6365-6378 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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