Dr Simon Lee

Lecturer in Atmospheric Science

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2637

Email

shl21@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Teaching

• ES3013 Oceans and Atmosphere
• ES2003 Dynamic Earth: Earth Surface Processes
• ES1002 Earth's Resource Challenges

Research areas

My research investigates large-scale weather and climate variability, predictability and change from daily to multi-decadal timescales, with a focus on subseasonal and seasonal timescales in the extratropics. This includes understanding fundamental physical processes, quantifying model biases, and developing frameworks to extract usable information from forecasts.

Specific areas of current research include the stratospheric polar vortex, weather regimes, annular modes, jet streams, large ensembles and extreme events.

More information is available on my website: simonleewx.com.

PhD supervision

• Thomas Breitburd
• Freya Gibbon
• Maxwell Jackson

Selected publications

• Open access

  A process-based evaluation of biases in extratropical stratosphere–troposphere coupling in subseasonal forecast systems

  Garfinkel, C. I., Lawrence, Z. D., Butler, A. H., Dunn-Sigouin, E., Erner, I., Karpechko, A. Y., Koren, G., Abalos, M., Ayarzagüena, B., Barriopedro, D., Calvo, N., de la Cámara, A., Charlton-Perez, A., Cohen, J., Domeisen, D. I. V., García-Serrano, J., Hindley, N. P., Jucker, M., Kim, H. & Lee, R. W. & 12 others, Lee, S. H., Osman, M., Palmeiro, F. M., Polichtchouk, I., Rao, J., Richter, J. H., Schwartz, C., Son, S.-W., Taguchi, M., Tyrrell, N. L., Wright, C. J. & Wu, R.W.-Y., 7 Feb 2025, In: Weather and Climate Dynamics. 6, 1, p. 171-195 25 p.

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

• Open access

  Dynamics of stratospheric wave reflection over the North Pacific

  Schutte, M. K., Portal, A., Lee, S. H. & Messori, G., 14 May 2025, In: Weather and Climate Dynamics. 6, 2, p. 521-548 28 p.

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

• Open access

  How the weather got ‘stuck’ over the UK – and produced an unusually dry and warm spring

  Lee, S. H. & Patterson, M., 12 May 2025, The Conversation.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Open access

  Impact of sudden stratospheric warmings on the stratosphere-to-troposphere transport of ozone

  Lee, J., Butler, A. H., Albers, J. R., Wu, Y. & Lee, S. H., 28 Jan 2025, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 52, 2, 10 p., e2024GL112588.

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

• Open access

  More positive and less variable North Atlantic Oscillation at high CO₂ forcing

  Mitevski, I., Lee, S. H., Vecchi, G., Orbe, C. & Polvani, L. M., 7 May 2025, In: npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 8, 9 p., 171.

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

• Open access

  Stratospheric impacts on weather regimes following the 2018 and 2019 sudden stratospheric warmings

  Lee, R. W., Charlton-Perez, A. J. & Lee, S. H., 16 Aug 2025, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 52, 15, 13 p., e2025GL115668.

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

• Open access

  The Arctic

  Thoman, R. L., Moon, T. A., Druckenmiller, M. L., Askjaer, T. G., Ballinger, T. J., Bhatt, U. S., Berner, L. T., Bernhard, G. H., Bigalke, S., Bjerke, J. W., Bliss, A., Box, J. E., Brady, M., Brettschneider, B., Butler, A. H., Christiansen, H. H., Crawford, A., Decharme, B., Derksen, C. & Divine, D. & 69 others, Elias Chereque, A., Epstein, H. E., Farrell, S., Fausto, R. S., Fettweis, X., Fioletov, V. E., Forbes, B. C., Frost, G. V., Gerland, S., Grooß, J.-U., Hanna, E., Hendricks, S., Howell, S., Ialongo, I., Isaksen, K., Jia, G., Johnsen, B., Kaleschke, L., Kim, S.-J., Labe, Z. M., Lader, R., Lakkala, K., Lara, M. J., Lee, S. H., Loomis, B. D., Luojus, K., Macander, M. J., Magnússon, R. Í., Mankoff, K. D., Mcclelland, J. W., Medley, B., Meier, W. N., Montesano, P. M., Mote, T. L., Motrøen Gjelten, H., Mudryk, L., Müller, R., Neigh, C. S. R., Nyland, K. E., Overland, J. E., Perovich, D. K., Petty, A., Phoenix, G. K., Poinar, K., Ricker, R., Romanovsky, V. E., Scheller, J. H., Serreze, M. C., Shiklomanov, A. I., Shiklomanov, N. I., Smith, B. E., Smith, S. L., Spencer, R. G. M., Streletskiy, D. A., Suslova, A., Svendby, T., Tank, S. E., Tian-Kunze, X., Tedesco, M., Timmermans, M.-L., Tømmervik, H., Tretiakov, M., Waigl, C. F., Walker, D. A., Walsh, J. E., Wang, M., Webster, M., Yang, D. & Zolkos, S., 1 Aug 2025, In: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 106, 8, p. S300-S356 57 p.

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

• Open access

  Two major sudden stratospheric warmings during winter 2023/2024

  Lee, S. H., Butler, A. & Manney, G. L., 5 Feb 2025, In: Weather. 80, 2, p. 45-53 9 p.

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

• Open access

  Événements météorologiques extrêmes: le pire reste à venir

  Lee, S. H., Fowler, H. J. & Davies, P., 2 Sept 2024, The Conversation.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Open access

  Exploiting a variational auto-encoder to represent the evolution of sudden stratospheric warmings

  Chen, Y.-C., Liang, Y.-C., Wu, C. M., Huang, J.-D., Lee, S. H., Wang, Y. & Zeng, Y.-J., 1 Jun 2024, In: Environmental Research: Climate. 3, 2, 18 p., 025006.

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

 

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