Current Post: Professor

Room Number: 3.07

Telephone: 01603 592557 (+44 1603 592557)

Fax: 01603 591327 (+44 1603 591327)

Email: i.renfrew@uea.ac.uk

Web Page: Personal web page

Publications: EPrints Digital Repository

Posts of Special Responsibility:

• Director of Research

Dynamical and physical processes within the coupled climate system; mesoscale dynamical meteorology and boundary-layer meteorology.


Biography

I joined UEA in June 2004, following six years working at the British Antarctic Survey, and three years before that as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Toronto, Canada. I was promoted to Reader in 2006 and to a Chair in July 2010. My research is on weather and climate processes, in particular mesoscale and boundary-layer meteorology and interactions between the atmosphere and the ocean. I focus on the high latitudes – both the Arctic and Antarctic – where climate change is predicted to be greatest. My research interests are broad and interdisciplinary, covering both meteorology and oceanography. While my research methods include analysis of observational data from field campaigns and state-of-the-art numerical modelling. I have well-established collaborations with scientists in Canada, USA, Norway and Iceland, as well as at several UK Universities and the Met Office. Please see my Personal Pages for more details.


Significant Publications

• Renfrew, I. A., G. W. K. Moore, J. E. Kristjánsson, H. Ólafsson, S. L. Gray, G. N. Petersen, K. Bovis, P. R. A. Brown, I. Føre, T. Haine, C. Hay, E. A. Irvine, A. Lawrence, T. Ohigashi, S. Outten, R. S. Pickart, M. Shapiro, D. Sproson, R. Swinbank, A. Woolley, S. Zhang (2008) The Greenland Flow Distortion experiment, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 89, 1307-1324.
• Sproson, D. A. J., I. A. Renfrew and K. J. Heywood (2008) Atmospheric conditions associated with oceanic convection in the south-east Labrador Sea, Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L06601, doi:10.1029/2007GL032971.

• Renfrew, I. A. and P. S. Anderson, (2006) Profiles of katabatic flow in summer and winter over Coats Land, Antarctica, Quarterly J. Royal Meteorol. Soc., 132, 779-802.

• Moore, G. W. K. and I. A. Renfrew, (2005) Tip jets and barrier winds: A QuikSCAT climatology of high wind speed events around Greenland, J. Climate, 18, 3713-3725. DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3455.1

• Renfrew, I. A. , G. W. K. Moore, P. S. Guest, and K. Bumke, (2002) A comparison of surface-layer and surface turbulent-flux observations over the Labrador Sea with ECMWF analyses and NCEP reanalyses, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 32, 383-400. DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2002)032<0383:ACOSLA>2.0.CO;2

• Renfrew, I. A., J. C. King, and T. Markus, (2002) Coastal polynyas in the southern Weddell Sea: variability of the surface energy budget, J. Geophys. Res. (Oceans), 107 (C6), 3063, doi: 10.1029/2000JC000720. 

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