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Adrian M. Tompkins is affiliated with the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Italy. Their research spans multiple fields of study primarily focused on environmental science, medicine, and earth and planetary sciences. The subfields of their work include global and planetary change, public health with a focus on environmental and occupational health, atmospheric science, infectious diseases, and oceanography.

Their research topics cover a variety of areas including climate variability and models, mosquito-borne diseases and control, malaria research and control, viral infections and vectors, meteorological phenomena and simulations, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, and species distribution coupled with climate change.

Adrian M. Tompkins has contributed to the scientific community through publications in several venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Climatic Change
  • The Lancet Planetary Health
  • AGU Advances
  • Journal of Climate

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Tompkins include:

  • Projecting the risk of mosquito-borne diseases in a warmer and more populated world: a multi-model, multi-scenario intercomparison modelling study, 2021, The Lancet Planetary Health
  • Observed Modulation of the Tropical Radiation Budget by Deep Convective Organization and Lower-Tropospheric Stability, 2020, AGU Advances
  • Separating the Indian and Pacific Ocean Impacts on the Euro-Atlantic Response to ENSO and Its Transition from Early to Late Winter, 2020, Journal of Climate
  • Air pollution analysis in Northwestern South America: A new Lagrangian framework, 2023, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Climate Drivers of Malaria Transmission Seasonality and Their Relative Importance in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2023, GeoHealth

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Adrian M. Tompkins include:

  • Cyril Caminade
  • Alejandro Casallas
  • Felipe J. Colón-González
  • Rachel Lowe
  • Maquins Odhiambo Sewe

Best Publications

  • The atmospheric general circulation model ECHAM 5. PART I: Model description

    Erich Roeckner;G. Bäuml;L. Bonaventura;Renate Brokopf

  • Impact of climate change on global malaria distribution

    Cyril Caminade;Sari Kovats;Joacim Rocklov;Adrian M Tompkins

  • Cloudnet: Continuous Evaluation of Cloud Profiles in Seven Operational Models Using Ground-Based Observations

    A. J. Illingworth;R. J. Hogan;E.J. O'Connor;D. Bouniol

  • Aerosol analysis and forecast in the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Integrated Forecast System : Forward modeling

    J.-J. Morcrette;O. Boucher;L. Jones;D. Salmond

  • A Prognostic Parameterization for the Subgrid-Scale Variability of Water Vapor and Clouds in Large-Scale Models and Its Use to Diagnose Cloud Cover

    Adrian M. Tompkins

  • Validation of the Aura Microwave Limb Sounder temperature and geopotential height measurements

    M. Schwartz;A. Lambert;G.L. Manney;G.L. Manney;W.G. Read

  • Cloud ice: A climate model challenge with signs and expectations of progress

    Duane E. Waliser;Jui-Lin F. Li;Christopher P. Woods;Richard T. Austin

  • Projecting the risk of mosquito-borne diseases in a warmer and more populated world: a multi-model, multi-scenario intercomparison modelling study

    Felipe J Colón-González;Felipe J Colón-González;Maquins Odhiambo Sewe;Adrian M Tompkins;Henrik Sjödin

  • Organization of Tropical Convection in Low Vertical Wind Shears: The Role of Cold Pools

    Adrian M. Tompkins

  • Organization of Tropical Convection in Low Vertical Wind Shears: The Role of Water Vapor

    Adrian M. Tompkins

  • The diurnal cycle of the West African monsoon circulation

    D. J. Parker;R. R. Burton;A. Diongue-Niang;R. J. Ellis

  • Ice supersaturation in the ECMWF integrated forecast system

    Adrian M. Tompkins;Klaus Gierens;Gaby Rädel

  • Radiative–convective equilibrium in a three-dimensional cloud-ensemble model

    Adrian M. Tompkins;George C. Craig

  • A Gill-Matsuno-type mechanism explains the tropical Atlantic influence on African and Indian monsoon rainfall

    F. Kucharski;A. Bracco;J. H. Yoo;A. M. Tompkins

  • Organization of tropical convection in low vertical wind shears: Role of updraft entrainment

    Adrian M. Tompkins;Addisu G. Semie

  • Multisectoral climate impact hotspots in a warming world

    Franziska Piontek;Christoph Müller;Thomas A.M. Pugh;Douglas B. Clark

  • Assimilation and Modeling of the Atmospheric Hydrological Cycle in the ECMWF Forecasting System

    Erik Andersson;Peter Bauer;Anton Beljaars;Frederic Chevallier

  • A regional-scale, high resolution dynamical malaria model that accounts for population density, climate and surface hydrology.

    Adrian M Tompkins;Volker Ermert

  • Influence of aerosol climatology on forecasts of the African Easterly Jet

    A.M. Tompkins;Carla Cardinali;J.-J. Morcrette;Mark Rodwell

  • THE JET2000 PROJECT Aircraft Observations of the African Easterly Jet and African Easterly Waves

    C. D. Thorncroft;D. J. Parker;R. R. Burton;M. Diop

  • Cloud Ice: A Climate Model Challenge With Signs and Expectations of Progress

    F. Li;D. Waliser;J. Bacmeister;J. Chern

Frequent Co-Authors

Duane E. Waliser
Duane E. Waliser Jet Propulsion Lab
Jonathan H. Jiang
Jonathan H. Jiang California Institute of Technology
Anton Beljaars
Anton Beljaars European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Douglas J. Parker
Douglas J. Parker University of Leeds
Andreas H. Fink
Andreas H. Fink Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Thomas Jung
Thomas Jung Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Wei-Kuo Tao
Wei-Kuo Tao Goddard Space Flight Center
Fred Kucharski
Fred Kucharski International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Franco Molteni
Franco Molteni European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Julio T. Bacmeister
Julio T. Bacmeister National Center for Atmospheric Research

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