Professor Amanda Maycock
- Position: Professor in Climate Dynamics
- Areas of expertise: Climate science; climate change; climate modelling; midlatitude dynamics; tropical widening; chemistry-climate interactions; stratosphere; ozone layer; radiative transfer
- Email: A.C.Maycock@leeds.ac.uk
- Phone: +44(0)113 343 9793
- Location: 10.21 Priestley Building
- Website: Twitter | Googlescholar | Researchgate | ORCID
Profile
I am Professor in Climate Dynamics and Director of the Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science (ICAS) at the University of Leeds.
Prizes:
- 2018 Philip Leverhulme Prize (Leverhulme Trust)
- 2019 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Researchers (European Geosciences Union)
- 2022 STAC Outstanding Early Career Award (American Meteorological Society)
- 2023 water@leeds Water Woman Award for Research Excellence
Research Fellowships:
- CIRES Senior Scientist Visiting Fellowship, NOAA, Boulder, 2016
- NERC Independent Research Fellow, 2015-20
- University Academic Fellow, 2015-17
- Junior Research Fellow, St Catharine's College, Cambridge, 2013-15
- AXA Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cambridge, 2013-15
Leadership:
- Director, Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science, U. Leeds (2020-)
- Co-chair, World Climate Reseach Programme SPARC core project (2022-)
- Co-chair, WCRP/SPARC Activity on Atmospheric Temperature Change and their Drivers (2017-)
- Member, Steering committee AerChemMIP for CMIP6 (2016-)
- Chair, Royal Meteorological Society Meetings and Events Committee (2017-2021)
Assessments:
- Lead Author of Working Group I of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report
- Review Editor of WMO/UNEP 2022 Ozone Assessment Report
- Lead Author of WMO/UNEP 2018 Ozone Assessment Report
- Member, External Review Panel NOAA Chemical Science Laboratory (US) (2021)
Community service:
- Editor, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (2023-)
- Co-Editor, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (2016-)
- Member, International Commission on the Middle Atmosphere (IAMAS) (2019-)
- Member, NERC Peer Review College (2020-)
- Co-chair, Scientific Organising Committee for SPARC 6th General Assembly (2018)
Responsibilities
- Director of Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science
- Academic Lead for Physical Climate Change Group
- NERC PANORAMA DTP Atmosphere and Climate Theme Leader
Research interests
My research focuses on large-scale climate dynamics including processes affecting climate variability and change.
Research themes:
- Climate dynamics
- Climate projections
- Atmospheric circulation
- Atmosphere-ocean coupling
- Stratosphere-troposphere interactions
- Radiative transfer
Research groups:
Current projects:
- CONSTRAIN (Co-I, 2019-2023, EU H2020)
- Philip Leverhulme Prize (PI, 2019-2025, Leverhulme Trust)
- Tropical Width Impacts on the STratosphere (TWIST), (2019-, International Space Science Institute)
- Developing actionable seasonal climate information for the wind and solar energy industry, (2017-, NERC Industrial CASE PhD)
Past projects:
- Understanding Composition-Climate Feedbacks in the Earth System (PI, 2015-20, NERC)
- SMURPHS (Co-I, 2015-2019, NERC)
- Joint iCASP and UKCP18 demonstrator project (Co-I, 2017, NERC)
- Tropical Width Diagnostics Intercomparison Project (TWDIP), (2017-2018, ISSI)
- Changing Width of the Tropical Belt, (2017-2019, US CLIVAR working group)
- Process Evaluation Group on the 'Tropical Tropopause Layer', (2015-18, Met Office)
- Scenarios of Future Solar Activity for Climate Modelling, (2015-16, ISSI)
Submitted:
- Wells, C., L. J. Jackson, A. C. Maycock, P. M. Forster, Understanding pattern scaling errors across a range of emissions pathways, Earth System Dynamics, revised 07/23.
- Trascasa-Castro, P., A. C. Maycock, Y. Ruprich-Robert, M. Turco, P. Staten, Atlantic Multidecadal Variability modulates the climate impacts of El Niño-Southern Oscillation in Australia, Env Res Letts, revised 07/23.
- Dow, W. J., C. M. McKenna, M. M. Joshi, A. T. Blaker, R. Rigby, and A. C. Maycock, Intensified Aleutian Low induces weak Pacific Decadal Variability, Weather and Climate Dynamics, submitted.
In preparation:
- Charnay, V., C. M. McKenna, A. C. Maycock, Uncertainty in projected sea surface temperature trends and North Pacific atmospheric circulation, Clim. Dyn., in prep.
- Perez, J., A. C. Maycock, S. Griffiths, S. Hardiman, C. M. McKenna, Variability of the North Atlantic eddy-driven jet: a moment-based perspective, in prep
- Bonnet, R., C. M. McKenna, A. C. Maycock, Stratosphere-troposphere coupling linked to spread in multi-decadal NAO variability in models, in prep.
Qualifications
- PhD, Atmosphere, Oceans and Climate, University of Reading, 2012
- MSc, Atmosphere, Oceans and Climate, University of Reading, 2008
- MPhys, Physics with Astrophysics, University of Manchester, 2006
Professional memberships
- Member, Royal Meteorological Society
- Member, European Geophysical Union
Student education
Current research group:
Postdocs
- Dr Leo Saffin (CONSTRAIN project), 2023-
- Dr Ryan Williams (StratCluse project), 2023-
PhD students
- Eswyn Chen (CASE with Met Office), Robust future projections for Europe, 2021-
- Arundhati Kalyan (CASE with Met Office), Decadal modulation of El Nino Southern Oscillation and its global impacts, 2022-
- James Norman, Developing actionable seasonal climate information for the wind and solar industry, 2017-
- Weronika Osmolska (CASE with Met Office), Nature of cold-air outbreaks in Europe in a warming climate, 2022-
- Jacob Perez (EPSRC Fluids CDT; with Met Office), Regime behaviour of Earth’s jet streams and role for recent extreme weather, 2020-
- Paloma Trascasa (CASE with Barcelona Supercomputing Center), Modulation of El Niño Southern Oscillation and its impacts by the mean climate state, 2019-
MRes students
- Yvonne Anderson, The influence of Arctic sea ice loss on the North Atlantic jet morphology, 2022-
- Hong Yu, Triple dip La Nina events in a future climate, 2022-
Research Assistants
- Ieuan Davies
Academic visitors
- Julia Casadell, 2023
- Dr Rémy Bonnet, 2022
- Dr Christine McKenna, 2023
- Vincent Charnay, 2023
Past group members
Dr Christine McKenna (PDRA Leeds 2019-2023; Now Climate Scientist at JBA Risk); Mr Vincent Charnay (Research Assistant Leeds 2022-23; Now PhD student at Victoria Uni Wellington NZ); Dr Will Dow (PhD Leeds 2023; Now PDRA at Leeds); Prashant Mahendran (MRes Leeds 2022; Now Climate Scientist UK Government); Auriel Franklin (MRes Leeds 2022); Dr Tom Wood (PhD Leeds 2021; Now PDRA at Uni. Sheffield); Sachin Jugjeewon (MRes Leeds, 2021; now AI researcher at BT); Dr Andreas Chrysanthou (PhD Leeds, 2020; PDRA Leeds, 2020-21); Marjahn Finlayson (MRes Leeds, 2020, now Cape Eleuthera Institute); Ruari Phipps (BSc Leeds, 2020, now Data Analyst at Planet Mark); Dr Jake Smith (PhD Cambridge, 2019, now PDRA at Uni. Cambridge); Paloma Trascasa (MRes Leeds, 2018, now PhD student Uni. Leeds); David Feitschinger (MSc Leeds, 2018, now Graduate Consultant at Arup); Ella Wingard (Summer intern, 2018, now consultant at Ricardo); Rohan Patel (BSc Leeds, 2018, now Graduate Consultant at CERC); Dr Scott Yiu (PhD Cambridge, 2018, now data scientist at De Beers); Dr Michelle McCrystall (PhD Cambridge, 2017, now PDRA at Uni. Manitoba); Tom Bartle (MRes Leeds, 2017, now Air Quality Consultant at MLM Group); Gibbon Masukwedza (MRes Leeds, 2016, now PhD student at Uni. Surrey); Tom Claxton (BA Cambridge, 2014, now PhD student at Lancaster Uni); Grainne McGread (BA Cambridge, 2013, now at Bank of England); Owain Rutherford (summer student Leeds, 2017, now Software Engineer at Illuminate Technologies); Alice Drinkwater (summer student Leeds, 2016, now PhD student at Edinburgh Uni); Digory Smith (BA Cambridge, 2014, now Content Development Lead at Sparx).
Research groups and institutes
- Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science
- Climate Science and Impacts
- Atmospheric and Cloud Dynamics
- Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols