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Richard Washington is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research spans Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a focus on climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, and tropical and extratropical cyclones research.

The main subfields of their work include global and planetary change, atmospheric science, oceanography, earth-surface processes, and ecology. Their research topics cover climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, hydrology and drought analysis, and oceanographic and atmospheric processes.

Washington has published extensively in several reputable venues. The most frequent publication venues include Climate Dynamics, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Journal of Climate, International Journal of Climatology, and Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

Recent papers by Washington demonstrate the focus on atmospheric and climate dynamics in Africa and related regions. These include:

  • African Low-Level Jets and Their Importance for Water Vapor Transport and Rainfall (2020, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • Contrasting controls on Congo Basin evaporation at the two rainfall peaks (2020, Climate Dynamics)
  • Convection-Permitting Regional Climate Change Simulations for Understanding Future Climate and Informing Decision-Making in Africa (2021, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society)
  • Climate variability affects water-energy-food infrastructure performance in East Africa (2021, One Earth)
  • Variability of the Turkana Low-Level Jet in Reanalysis and Models: Implications for Rainfall (2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres)

Washington frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Callum Munday, Rachel James, Sebastian Engelstaedter, Wilfried M. Pokam, and Ellen Dyer. These collaborations reflect ongoing research networks in climate science and atmospheric studies.

Best Publications

  • Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

  • North African dust emissions and transport

    Sebastian Engelstaedter;Ina Tegen;Richard Washington

  • Dust-Storm Source Areas Determined by the Total Ozone Monitoring Spectrometer and Surface Observations

    Richard Washington;Martin Todd;Nicholas J. Middleton;Andrew S. Goudie

  • The Bodélé depression: a single spot in the Sahara that provides most of the mineral dust to the Amazon forest

    Ilan Koren;Yoram J Kaufman;Richard Washington;Martin C Todd

  • African Climate Change: Taking the Shorter Route

    Richard Washington;Mike Harrison;Declan Conway;Emily Black

  • Atmospheric controls on mineral dust emission from the Bodele depression, Chad: The role of the low level jet

    Richard Washington;Martin C. Todd

  • Characterizing half-a-degree difference: a review of methods for identifying regional climate responses to global warming targets

    Rachel James;Richard Washington;Carl-Friedrich Schleussner;Joeri Rogelj

  • Atmospheric controls on the annual cycle of North African dust

    Sebastian Engelstaedter;Richard Washington

  • Issues in the interpretation of climate model ensembles to inform decisions

    David A Stainforth;David A Stainforth;Thomas E Downing;Richard Washington;Ana Lopez

  • Large Scale Modes of Ocean Surface Temperature Since the Late Nineteenth Century

    C. K. Folland;D. E. Parker;A. W. Colman;R. Washington

  • Multiple episodes of aridity in southern Africa since the last interglacial period

    Stephen Stokes;David S. G. Thomas;Richard Washington

  • Optical properties of Saharan dust aerosol and contribution from the coarse mode as measured during the Fennec 2011 aircraft campaign

    Claire L. Ryder;Ellie J. Highwood;Philip D. Rosenberg;Jamie Trembath

  • Dust and the low-level circulation over the Bodélé Depression, Chad: Observations from BoDEx 2005

    Richard Washington;Martin C. Todd;Sebastian Engelstaedter;Samuel Mbainayel

  • Congo Basin rainfall climatology: can we believe the climate models?

    Richard Washington;Rachel James;Helen Pearce;Wilfried M. Pokam

  • Changes in African temperature and precipitation associated with degrees of global warming

    Rachel James;Richard Washington

  • Links between topography, wind, deflation, lakes and dust: The case of the Bodélé Depression, Chad

    R. Washington;M.C. Todd;G. Lizcano;I. Tegen

  • Agent-based social simulation: a method for assessing the impact of seasonal climate forecast applications among smallholder farmers

    Gina Ziervogel;Mike Bithell;Richard Washington;Tom Downing

  • The Impacts of the Oceans on Climate Change

    E. Lewis-Brown;P.C. Reid;A. Andersson;R. Arthurton

  • Circulation anomalies associated with tropical-temperate troughs in southern Africa and the south west Indian Ocean

    M. Todd;R. Washington

  • Mineral dust emission from the Bodélé Depression, northern Chad, during BoDEx 2005

    Martin C. Todd;Richard Washington;José Vanderlei Martins;José Vanderlei Martins;Oleg Dubovik

  • Quantifying uncertainty in estimates of mineral dust flux: An intercomparison of model performance over the Bodélé Depression, northern Chad

    M. C. Todd;D. Bou Karam;C. Cavazos;C. Bouet

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin C. Todd
Martin C. Todd University of Sussex
Giles F.S. Wiggs
Giles F.S. Wiggs University of Oxford
John H. Marsham
John H. Marsham University of Leeds
James B. McQuaid
James B. McQuaid University of Leeds
Robert G. Bryant
Robert G. Bryant University of Sheffield
Douglas J. Parker
Douglas J. Parker University of Leeds
Thomas E. Downing
Thomas E. Downing Stockholm Environment Institute
Cyrille Flamant
Cyrille Flamant Sorbonne University
James Dorsey
James Dorsey University of Manchester

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