Dr Nathan Gillett
Current Post: Reader
Room Number: CRU 0.01
Telephone: 01603 593647 (+44 1603 593647)
Fax: 01603 507784 (+44 1603 507784)
Email: n.gillett@uea.ac.uk
Research Interests
The understanding and attribution of climate change through the comparison of simulated and observed changes; changes in the atmospheric circulation and precipitation; the climate response to stratospheric ozone depletion and stratosphere-troposphere coupling.
Biography
I read physics at Oxford, followed by a DPhil in atmospheric physics, supervised by Myles Allen, John Mitchell and Peter Read. My thesis was concerned with links between the atmospheric circulation and climate change, using observational analysis and modelling. I subsequently worked as a research associate at the University of Victoria, (Canada) for three years, working mainly on detection and attribution of anthropogenic influence on climate with Andrew Weaver and Francis Zwiers. I joined ENV as a lecturer in January 2005, where I have continued to pursue research on changes in atmospheric circulation, and detection and attribution of climate change. I am a lead author of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, and an author of the WMO Stratospheric Ozone Assessment.
Significant Publications
Gillett, N. P., (2005) Northern Hemisphere circulation. Nature, 437, 496, doi:10.1038/437496a.
Gillett, N. P., B. D. Santer, A. J. Weaver, (2004). Stratospheric cooling and the troposphere. Nature, doi:10.1038/nature03209.
Gillett, N. P., A. J. Weaver, F. W. Zwiers, M. D. Flannigan, (2004). Detecting the effect of climate change on Canadian forest fires. Geophys. Res. Lett., 31(18), L18211, doi:10.1029/2004GL020876.
Gillett, N. P., A. J. Weaver, F. W. Zwiers, M. F. Wehner, (2004). Detection of volcanic influence on global precipitation. Geophys. Res. Lett., 31(12), L12217, doi:10.1029/2004GL020044.
Gillett, N. P., D. W. J. Thompson, (2003). Simulation of recent Southern Hemisphere climate change, Science, 302, 273-275, doi:10.1126/science.1087440.
Gillett, N. P., F. W. Zwiers, A. J. Weaver, P. A. Stott, (2003). Detection of human influence on sea level pressure, Nature, 422, 292-294, doi:10.1038/nature01487.
