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American geophysicist
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Raymond PierrehumbertFRS
BornRaymond Thomas Pierrehumbert
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University
SpouseJanet Pierrehumbert
AwardsFellow of the AAAS, Ordre des Palmes académiques, Guggenheim Fellowship, Fellow of the Royal Society
Scientific career
FieldsGeophysics, climatology
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago
University of Oxford
ThesisThe structure and stability of large vortices in an inviscid flow (1980)
Notable studentsJoshua Wurman

Raymond Thomas Pierrehumbert FRS is the Halley Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford. Previously, he was Louis Block Professor in Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago. He was a lead author on the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and a co-author of the National Research Council report on abrupt climate change.

Education and awards

He earned a degree in Physics (A.B) from Harvard College and a PhD in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 1996, which was used to launch collaborative work on the climate of early Mars with collaborators in Paris. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and has been named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the Republic of France. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015 and sits on the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. In 2020, Pierrehumbert was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Research

Pierrehumbert's central research interest is how climate works as a system and developing idealized mathematical models to be used to address questions of climate science such as how the earth kept from freezing over: the faint young sun paradox.

Pierrehumbert contributes to RealClimate and is a strong critic of solar geoengineering research.

He also is very active in the study of the climate of Exoplanets.

Personal life

Pierrehumbert is married to Janet Pierrehumbert, professor of Language Modeling at the University of Oxford.

Selected papers

References

  1. "Professor Raymond Thomas Pierrehumbert". Jesus College, Oxford. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
  2. "Raymond Pierrehumbert". Royal Society. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
  3. Choi, Charles Q. (3 January 2013). "How Early Earth Kept Warm Despite Faint Sun". Fox News Channel. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
  4. "RealClimate: Raymond T. Pierrehumbert". December 6, 2004.
  5. Alcorn, Ted (2021-05-13). "The Hot Debate Over Solar Geoengineering and Its Impact on Climate". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2021-05-17.
  6. "Astrophysics Data System".
  7. "Janet B. Pierrehumbert". www.phon.ox.ac.uk.

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Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 2020
Fellows
HonoraryDavid Cooksey
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