Raymond Pierrehumbert
Raymond Thomas Pierrehumbert (* 1954 ) is an American geophysicist and climatologist . He has been teaching and researching at the University of Oxford since 2015 , having previously worked at the University of Chicago for over 25 years . He is primarily concerned with the physical principles of climatic processes on planets , both within the solar system and on exoplanets . He is also one of the leading climate researchers on issues of global warming and played a key role in the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Career
Pierrehumbert studied physics at Harvard University , where he received his bachelor's degree in June 1975 . Between 1976 and 1977 he spent some time at the University of Cambridge in England. He then returned to the United States, continued his studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he was awarded a Ph.D. in 1980. PhD . He then worked at MIT for two years as an assistant professor of meteorology before moving to Princeton University in 1982 , where he also served as an assistant professor. At the same time he was employed as a research assistant at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and spent a sabbatical at the Meteorological Institute of Stockholm University in 1987/88 .
In 1988 Pierrehumbert was promoted to a full professorship at Princeton, but left the university a year later when he followed the call of the University of Chicago and accepted a full professorship in geophysics , which he held for the next 26 years. During this period there were two research stays at elite universities in Paris , in 1996/97 at the École normal supérieure and in 2003/04 at the École polytechnique . In 2015 he finally took over the position of Halley Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford in England.
Scientific work
Pierrehumbert basically deals with the physics of the climate , but his main scientific focus is on the climates of the solar system as well as of exoplanets and the early stages of the earth . Nevertheless, he also deals with questions of the current earth climate and researches in this context, for example, on baroclinic instability and Rossby waves . Last but not least, Pierrehumbert is one of the leading scientists in the field of global warming , for example he was one of the leading authors of the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Other publications by him shed light on the carbon dioxide factor in climate change. He also runs the RealClimate blog together with other climate researchers .
To date, Pierrehumbert has published over 100 articles in specialist journals, including several in Nature and Science . His book Principles of Planetary Climate , published in 2010, is regarded as a standard work in the field of climatology and paleoclimatology .
Honors
Pierrehumbert was a Guggenheim Fellow , is a member of the American Geophysical Union and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015. In the same year he received an honorary doctorate from Stockholm University . He is also a member of the French Ordre des Palmes Académiques with the rank of knight (Chevalier) . In 2020 Pierrehumbert was elected to the Royal Society .
Personal
Pierrehumbert is married to Janet Pierrehumbert , a linguist who also works at the University of Oxford.
Works (selection)
- Raymond T. Pierrehumbert: Principles of Planetary Climate. Cambridge University Press 2010, ISBN 978-0-521-86556-2 .
- Raymond T. Pierrehumbert: Infrared radiation and planetary temperature Physics Today January 2011 pp. 33-38 doi : 10.1063 / 1.3653855
Web links
- Website on the pages of the University of Oxford (English)
- Curriculum Vitae on the website of the University of Oxford (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ RT Pierrehumbert, DS Abbot, A. Voigt, D. Koll: Climate of the Neoproterozoic . (PDF) In: The Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Science . 39, May 2011, pp. 417-460. doi : 10.1146 / annurev-earth-040809-152447 .
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter P. (PDF; 649 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved December 13, 2017 .
- ↑ Honorary Doctorates 1994–2016. su.se, April 11, 2017, accessed on December 13, 2017 .
- ↑ free PDF of the article accessed on October 22, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pierrehumbert, Raymond |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pierrehumbert, Raymond T .; Pierrehumbert, Raymond Thomas (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American geophysicist and climatologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1954 |