Current Post: Lecturer in Climate Dynamics

Room Number: CRU 1.03

Telephone: 01603 593647 (+44 1603 593647)

Fax: 01603 591327 (+44 1603 591327)

Email: m.joshi@uea.ac.uk

Publications: EPrints Digital Repository

Posts of Special Responsibility: n/a




Research Interests

My research interests are generally about understanding the atmosphere and climate of Earth, as well as other planets. The topics include:

• Radiative forcing and climate response
• Patterns of climate change such as the land/sea warming contrast
• The influence of the stratosphere on climate
• The climates of other planets
• Earth system science

Biography

After a PhD at Oxford I was a US National Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the NASA Ames Research Centre in Mountain View, California, and also spent a year as a scientist at the SETI institute (doing planetary research- not hunting for aliens). I came back to the UK and did postdoctoral work at the department of Meteorology at the University of Reading. After some time as a research scientist at the Met Office, I came back to Reading as a senior scientist at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (Climate), before coming to UEA.



Significant Publications

• Joshi, M.M. and Haberle, R.M. (2012) Suppression of the water ice and snow albedo feedback on planets orbiting red dwarf stars and the subsequent widening of the habitable zone. Astrobiology, 11, doi:10.1089/ast.2011.0668
• Joshi, M., Hawkins, E., Sutton, R., Lowe, J. and Frame, D. (2011) Projections of when temperature change will exceed 2C above pre-industrial levels. Nature Climate Change, 1, 407-412.
• Joshi, M.M., Gregory, J.M., Webb, M.J., Sexton, D.M.H. and Johns, T.C. (2008) Mechanisms for the land/sea warming contrast exhibited by simulations of climate change. Climate Dynamics, 30, 455-465.
• Joshi, M.M., Charlton, A.J. and Scaife, A.A. (2006) On the influence of stratospheric water vapor changes on the tropospheric circulation. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L09806.
• Joshi, M.M., Shine, K.P., Ponater, M., Stuber, N., Sausen, R. and Li, L. (2003) A comparison of climate response to different radiative forcings in three general circulation models: towards an improved metric of climate change. Climate Dynamics, 20, 843-854.
• Keating, GM et al. (1998) The structure of the upper atmosphere of Mars: In Situ accelerometer measurements from Mars Global Surveyor. Science, 279, 1672-1676.
• Joshi, M.M., Haberle, R.M. and Reynolds, R.T. (1997) Simulations of the atmospheres of synchronously rotating terrestrial planets orbiting M dwarfs: conditions for atmospheric collapse and implications for habitability. Icarus, 129, 450-465.
• Joshi, M.M., Lewis, S.R., Read, P.L. and Catling, D.C. (1994) Western boundary currents in the atmosphere of Mars. Nature, 367, 548-551.

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