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  • 1999 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Lesley J. Gray is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science as significant subfields.

The scientific work of Lesley J. Gray covers various topics including:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research

Lesley J. Gray has published research in several reputable scientific journals. Frequent venues for publications include:

  • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • Weather and Climate Dynamics
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Several recent papers authored or co-authored by Lesley J. Gray illustrate the scope of their research interests:

  • "Historical Simulations With HadGEM3-GC3.1 for CMIP6", 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • "Evaluation of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in global climate models for the SPARC QBO-initiative", 2020, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • "Uncertainty in the Response of Sudden Stratospheric Warmings and Stratosphere-Troposphere Coupling to Quadrupled CO2 Concentrations in CMIP6 Models", 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • "Response of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation to a warming climate in global climate models", 2020, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • "Impacts, processes and projections of the quasi-biennial oscillation", 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Lesley J. Gray include:

  • Scott Osprey
  • James Anstey
  • Neal Butchart
  • Jorge L. García-Franco
  • Yoshio Kawatani

Notably, Lesley J. Gray was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1999.

Best Publications

  • The quasi-biennial oscillation

    M. P. Baldwin;L. J. Gray;T. J. Dunkerton;K. Hamilton

  • SOLAR INFLUENCES ON CLIMATE

    L. J. Gray;L. J. Gray;J. Beer;M. Geller;J.D. Haigh

  • The HadGEM2-ES implementation of CMIP5 centennial simulations

    C. D. Jones;J. K. Hughes;Nicolas Bellouin;S. C. Hardiman

  • The HadGEM2 family of Met Office Unified Model climate configurations

    N. Bellouin;W. J. Collins;I. D. Culverwell

  • Stratospheric influence on tropospheric jet streams, storm tracks and surface weather

    Joseph Kidston;Adam A. Scaife;Steven C. Hardiman;Daniel M. Mitchell

  • Solar forcing of winter climate variability in the Northern Hemisphere

    Sarah Ineson;Adam A. Scaife;Jeff R. Knight;James C. Manners

  • Extreme weather events in early summer 2018 connected by a recurrent hemispheric wave-7 pattern

    Kai Kornhuber;Scott Osprey;Dim Coumou;Dim Coumou;Stefan Petri

  • Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 5 (CMIP5) simulations of climate following volcanic eruptions

    Simon Driscoll;Alessio Bozzo;Alessio Bozzo;Lesley J. Gray;Alan Robock

  • Recent variability of the solar spectral irradiance and its impact on climate modelling

    I. Ermolli;K. Matthes;T. Dudok de Wit;N. A. Krivova

  • Introduction to the SPARC Reanalysis Intercomparison Project (S-RIP) and overview of the reanalysis systems

    Masatomo Fujiwara;Jonathon S. Wright;Gloria L. Manney;Lesley J. Gray

  • The influence of stratospheric vortex displacements and splits on surface climate

    Daniel M. Mitchell;Lesley J. Gray;James Anstey;Mark P. Baldwin

  • Stratospheric Communication of El Niño Teleconnections to European Winter

    Christopher James Bell;Lesley Janet Gray;Andrew James Charlton-Perez;Manoj Mukund Joshi

  • Characterization of the 11-Year Solar Signal Using a Multiple Regression Analysis of the ERA-40 Dataset

    Simon A. Crooks;Lesley J. Gray

  • Historical simulations with HadGEM3-GC3.1 for CMIP6

    Martin B. Andrews;Jeff K. Ridley;Richard A. Wood;Timothy Andrews

  • A lagged response to the 11 year solar cycle in observed winter Atlantic/European weather patterns

    Lesley J. Gray;Adam A. Scaife;Daniel M. Mitchell;Scott Osprey

  • Multi‐model analysis of Northern Hemisphere winter blocking: Model biases and the role of resolution

    James A. Anstey;Paolo Davini;Lesley J. Gray;Tim J. Woollings

  • Concerning the effect of surface drag on the circulation of a baroclinic planetary atmosphere

    I. N. James;L. J. Gray

  • The quasi‐biennial oscillation: Analysis using ERA‐40 data

    Charlotte L. Pascoe;Lesley J. Gray;Simon A. Crooks;Martin N. Juckes

  • A two-dimensional model of the quasi-biennial oscillation of ozone

    L. J. Gray;J. A. Pyle

  • Northern winter climate change: Assessment of uncertainty in CMIP5 projections related to stratosphere-troposphere coupling

    E. Manzini;A. Yu. Karpechko;J. Anstey;M. P. Baldwin

  • Coupled chemistry climate model simulations of the solar cycle in ozone and temperature

    John Austin;K. Tourpali;E. Rozanov;H. Akiyoshi

  • Near-term climate change:Projections and predictability

    Nathaniel L. Bindoff;Paul J. Durack;Andrew Slater;Philip Cameron-Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam A. Scaife
Adam A. Scaife Met Office
Katja Matthes
Katja Matthes GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Neal Butchart
Neal Butchart Met Office
Joanna D. Haigh
Joanna D. Haigh Imperial College London
Masatomo Fujiwara
Masatomo Fujiwara Hokkaido University
Mark P. Baldwin
Mark P. Baldwin University of Exeter
Jeff R. Knight
Jeff R. Knight Met Office
Mike Lockwood
Mike Lockwood University of Reading
Andrew Charlton-Perez
Andrew Charlton-Perez University of Reading

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