Dr Andrew Russell

I am a Lecturer in Climate Change in the Institute for the Environment. I’m principally interested in atmospheric phenomenon on a variety of temporal and spatial scales. My main research achievements so far are:

1. to devise a new conceptual model of upper-level influences on thunderstorm development in Western Europe, which now requires testing over longer time scales and;
2. used observations, computer model data and ice cores to understand atmospheric circulation changes driving the major Eastern Antarctic Peninsula climate changes.

These will inform the direction of my work in the future.

I am also an enthusiastic science ambassador/communicator (see here for some of my outreach and media activities) and plan to build on this by incorporating these techniques into my research (i.e. investigating how people perceive and react to the science, and associated risk, of climate change and extreme events).

Career

• 2010-present: Lecturer in Climate Change, Brunel University
• 2005-2010: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Manchester
  

Qualifications

• 2005 - PhD Antarctic Climate Dynamics, University of Birmingham
• 2001 - MSc Mathematical Modelling of the Environment, University of East Anglia
• 2000 - BSc Physics, Imperial College London

• 2013 - Winner of the Royal Meteorological Society's Michael Hunt Prize for excellence in science communication
• 2006 - Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society (FRMetS)
• 2000 - Associate of the Royal College of Science (ARCS)

Research Interests

Climate change; climate dynamics; atmospheric dynamics; severe weather; convective storms; meteorology; Antarctic climate.

Research Activity

I’m interested to hear from potential Postgraduate or Postdoctoral researchers in the following areas:

• atmospheric dynamics
• climate dynamics
• climatology
• public perceptions of climate change and extreme events

Dr Russell currently teaches on modules in the following courses:
MSc in Climate Change Impacts and Sustainability
MSc in Environmental Science: Legislation and Management
MSc in Environmental Science: Pollution and Monitoring

Programme Director

• MSc in Climate Change Impacts and Sustainability
  

Coordinator

• IE5516 Sustainable development in practice
• IE5517 Responses to Climate Change
  

Contributor

• IE5513 Global climatic change
• IE5511 Research and critical skills

I also supervise MSc dissertations.

• Associate Editor of Atmospheric Science Letters
• Member of the RMetS Education Committee
• Reviewer for journals including IJOC, ASL, Climatic Change and Climate Research
• Expert reviewer for IPCC AR5
  
• Science Ambassador for a number of organisations (eg RMetS, NOISEmakers)

Publications

Journal Papers

(2012) Russell, A., Vaughan, G. and Norton, EG., Large scale potential vorticity anomalies and deep convection, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

(2011) Jones, H., Crosier, J., Russell, A., Flynn, M., Irwin, M., Choularton, T., Coe, H. and McFiggans, G., In-situ aerosol measurements taken during the 2007 COPS field campaign at the Hornisgrinde ground site, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 137 (S1) : 252- 266

(2010) Russell, A. and McGregor, GR., Southern hemisphere atmospheric circulation: impacts on Antarctic climate and reconstructions from Antarctic ice core data, Climatic Change 99 (1-2) : 155- 192 Download publication

(2009) Davis, JC., Collier, CG., Davies, F., Pearson, GN., Burton, R. and Russell, A., Doppler lidar observations of sensible heat flux and intercomparisons with a ground-based energy balance station and WRF model output, Meteorologische Zeitschrift 18 (2) : 155- 162 Download publication

(2009) Russell, A., Vaughan, G., Norton, EG., Ricketts, HMA., Morcrette, CJ., Hewison, TJ., Browning, KA. and Blyth, AM., Convection forced by a descending dry layer and low-level moist convergence, Tellus. Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography 61 (2) : 250- 263 Download publication

(2008) Russell, A., McGregor, GR. and Marshall, GJ., Eastern Antarctic Peninsula precipitation delivery mechanisms: Process studies and back trajectory evaluation, Atmospheric Science Letters 9 (4) : 214- 221 Download publication

(2008) Russell, A., Vaughan, G., Norton, EG., Morcrette, CJ., Browning, KA. and Blyth, AM., Convective inhibition beneath an upper-level PV anomaly, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 134 (631) : 371- 383 Download publication

(2007) Browning, KA., Morcrette, CJ., Nicol, J., Blyth, AM., Bennett, LJ., Brooks, BJ., Marsham, J., Mobbs, SD., Parker, DJ. and Perry, F., The convective storm initiation project, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 88 (12) : 1939- 1955 Download publication

(2007) Morcrette, C., Lean, H., Browning, K., Nicol, J., Roberts, N., Clark, P., Russell, A. and Blyth, A., Combination of mesoscale and synoptic mechanisms for triggering an isolated thunderstorm: Observational case study of CSIP IOP 1, Monthly Weather Review 135 (11) : 3728- 3749 Download publication

(2007) Russell, A., Ricketts, H. and Knight, S., Clouds, Physics Education 42 (5) : 457- 465

(2006) Russell, A., McGregor, GR. and Marshall, GJ., 340 years of atmospheric circulation characteristics reconstructed from an eastern Antarctic Peninsula ice core, Geophysical Research Letters 33 (8) : L08702- Download publication

(2004) Russell, A., Mcgregor, GR. and Marshall, GJ., An examination of the precipitation delivery mechanisms for Dolleman Island, eastern Antarctic Peninsula, Tellus. Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography 56 (5) : 501- 513 Download publication