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Geoffrey K. Vallis is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with extensive work in related subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Computational Mechanics, and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Their scientific contributions involve key topics including Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Marine and coastal ecosystems, and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics.

Notable recent publications include:

  • "Amplified Waveguide Teleconnections Along the Polar Front Jet Favor Summer Temperature Extremes Over Northern Eurasia," 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Joint Dependence of Longwave Feedback on Surface Temperature and Relative Humidity," 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Continued Atlantic overturning circulation even under climate extremes," 2025, Nature
  • "Overturning Pathways Control AMOC Weakening in CMIP6 Models," 2023, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "An Explanation for the Metric Dependence of the Midlatitude Jet-Waviness Change in Response to Polar Warming," 2023, Geophysical Research Letters

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Vallis include Ruth Geen, Stephen I. Thomson, F. Hugo Lambert, Jonathan Baker, and Andrew Watson.

Their work has appeared most regularly in the following publication venues:

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • Journal of Climate
  • Nature

Best Publications

  • Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics

    Geoffrey K. Vallis

  • Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics: Fundamentals and Large-Scale Circulation

    Geoffrey K. Vallis

  • Probing the Fast and Slow Components of Global Warming by Returning Abruptly to Preindustrial Forcing

    Isaac M. Held;Michael Winton;Ken Takahashi;Thomas Delworth

  • Generation of Mean Flows and Jets on a Beta Plane and over Topography

    Geoffrey K. Vallis;Matthew E. Maltrud

  • A stratospheric influence on the winter NAO and North Atlantic surface climate

    Adam A. Scaife;Jeff R. Knight;Geoff K. Vallis;Chris K. Folland

  • Energy spectra and coherent structures in forced two-dimensional and beta-plane turbulence

    M. E. Maltrud;G. K. Vallis

  • Response of the large-scale structure of the atmosphere to global warming

    Geoffrey K. Vallis;Pablo Zurita-Gotor;Cameron Cairns;Joseph Kidston

  • A Mechanism and Simple Dynamical Model of the North Atlantic Oscillation and Annular Modes

    Geoffrey K. Vallis;Edwin P. Gerber;Paul J. Kushner;Benjamin A. Cash

  • Turbulent diffusion in the geostrophic inverse cascade

    K. S. Smith;G. Boccaletti;C. C. Henning;I. Marinov

  • Routes to energy dissipation for geostrophic flows in the Southern Ocean

    Maxim Nikurashin;Maxim Nikurashin;Geoffrey K. Vallis;Alistair Adcroft

  • A Theory of the Interhemispheric Meridional Overturning Circulation and Associated Stratification

    Maxim Nikurashin;Geoffrey Vallis

  • The scales and equilibration of midocean eddies : Freely evolving flow

    K. Shafer Smith;Geoffrey K. Vallis

  • El nino: a chaotic dynamical system?

    Geoffrey K. Vallis

  • A boundary-value problem for the parameterized mesoscale eddy transport

    Raffaele Ferrari;Stephen M. Griffies;A.J. George Nurser;Geoffrey K. Vallis

  • Rossby number expansions, slaving principles, and balance dynamics

    T. Warn;O. Bokhove;T. G. Shepherd;G. K. Vallis

  • Large-scale circulation with small diapycnal diffusion: The two-thermocline limit

    R. M. Samelson;Geoffrey K. Vallis

  • A Theory of Deep Stratification and Overturning Circulation in the Ocean

    Maxim Nikurashin;Geoffrey Vallis

  • The Role of Bottom Vortex Stretching on the Path of the North Atlantic Western Boundary Current and on the Northern Recirculation Gyre

    Rong Zhang;Geoffrey K. Vallis

  • Southern Ocean buoyancy forcing of ocean ventilation and glacial atmospheric CO2

    Andrew J. Watson;Geoffrey K. Vallis;Maxim Nikurashin;Maxim Nikurashin

  • Eddy-zonal flow interactions and the persistence of the zonal index

    Edwin P. Gerber;Geoffrey K. Vallis

  • Large-Scale Circulation and Production of Stratification: Effects of Wind, Geometry, and Diffusion

    Geoffrey K. Vallis

  • Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics: Zonally Averaged Mid-Latitude Atmospheric Circulation

    Geoffrey K. Vallis

Frequent Co-Authors

Edwin P. Gerber
Edwin P. Gerber Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Paul J. Kushner
Paul J. Kushner University of Toronto
Riccardo Farneti
Riccardo Farneti International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Isaac M. Held
Isaac M. Held Princeton University
John O. Roads
John O. Roads University of California, San Diego
Stephan Andreas Fueglistaler
Stephan Andreas Fueglistaler Princeton University
James A. Renwick
James A. Renwick Victoria University of Wellington
Stephen M. Griffies
Stephen M. Griffies National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Dargan M. W. Frierson
Dargan M. W. Frierson University of Washington
Andrew J. Watson
Andrew J. Watson University of Exeter

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