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Thomas J. Bracegirdle is affiliated with the British Antarctic Survey in the United Kingdom. Their research spans Earth and Planetary Sciences with particular emphasis on Environmental Science. They have contributed extensively to the fields of Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Ecology, and aspects of Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

Their work focuses on several main topics including Climate variability and models, Cryospheric studies and observations, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes.

Bracegirdle has published several research papers in notable scientific journals. Selected publications include:

  • "Experimental protocol for sea level projections from ISMIP6 stand-alone ice sheet models" (2020), The Cryosphere
  • "Future Sea Level Change Under Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 and Phase 6 Scenarios From the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets" (2021), Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Twenty first century changes in Antarctic and Southern Ocean surface climate in CMIP6" (2020), Atmospheric Science Letters
  • "CMIP5 model selection for ISMIP6 ice sheet model forcing: Greenland and Antarctica" (2020), The Cryosphere
  • "Improvements in Circumpolar Southern Hemisphere Extratropical Atmospheric Circulation in CMIP6 Compared to CMIP5" (2020), Earth and Space Science

Their work is frequently published in journals such as Journal of Climate, The Cryosphere, Geophysical Research Letters, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.

Frequent collaborators in their research include John King, Hua Lu, Caroline Holmes, Luke D. Trusel, and Heiko Goelzer.

Best Publications

  • Absence of 21st century warming on Antarctic Peninsula consistent with natural variability

    John Turner;Hua Lu;Ian White;John C. King

  • Antarctic climate change and the environment: an update

    John Turner;Nicholas E Barrand;Thomas J Bracegirdle;Peter Convey

  • Climate change drives expansion of Antarctic ice-free habitat

    Jasmine R. Lee;Jasmine R. Lee;Ben Raymond;Ben Raymond;Ben Raymond;Thomas J. Bracegirdle;Iadine Chadès;Iadine Chadès

  • An Initial Assessment of Antarctic Sea Ice Extent in the CMIP5 Models

    John Turner;Thomas J. Bracegirdle;Tony Phillips;Gareth J. Marshall

  • State of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean climate system

    Paul Andrew Mayewski;M. P. Meredith;C. P. Summerhayes;J. Turner

  • Unprecedented springtime retreat of Antarctic sea ice in 2016

    John Turner;Tony Phillips;Gareth J. Marshall;J. Scott Hosking

  • Antarctic climate change over the twenty first century

    Thomas J. Bracegirdle;William M. Connolley;John Turner

  • West Antarctic ice loss influenced by internal climate variability and anthropogenic forcing

    Paul R. Holland;Thomas J. Bracegirdle;Pierre Dutrieux;Adrian Jenkins

  • The reliability of Antarctic tropospheric pressure and temperature in the latest global reanalyses

    Thomas J. Bracegirdle;Gareth J. Marshall

  • The Southern Ocean Ecosystem Under Multiple Climate Change Stresses - An Integrated Circumpolar Assessment

    Julian Gutt;Nancy Bertler;Thomas J. Bracegirdle;Alexander Buschmann

  • Assessment of surface winds over the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Ocean sectors of the Southern Ocean in CMIP5 models: historical bias, forcing response, and state dependence

    Thomas J. Bracegirdle;Emily Shuckburgh;Jean-Baptiste Sallee;Zhaomin Wang

  • Recent changes in Antarctic Sea Ice

    John Turner;J. Scott Hosking;Thomas J. Bracegirdle;Gareth J. Marshall

  • Polar Climate Change as Manifest in Atmospheric Circulation.

    James A. Screen;Thomas J. Bracegirdle;I. Simmonds

  • Assessment of Southern Ocean water mass circulation and characteristics in CMIP5 models: Historical bias and forcing response

    Jean-Baptiste Sallée;Emily Shuckburgh;Nicolas Bruneau;Andrew J. S. Meijers

  • Critical Southern Ocean climate model biases traced to atmospheric model cloud errors.

    Patrick Hyder;John M. Edwards;Richard P. Allan;Helene T. Hewitt

  • Assessment of Southern Ocean mixed-layer depths in CMIP5 models: Historical bias and forcing response

    Jean-Baptiste Sallée;Emily Shuckburgh;Nicolas Bruneau;Andrew J. S. Meijers

  • Antarctic sea ice increase consistent with intrinsic variability of the Amundsen Sea Low

    John Turner;J. Scott Hosking;Gareth J. Marshall;Tony Phillips

  • Atmosphere-ocean-ice interactions in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica

    John Turner;Andrew Orr;G. Hilmar Gudmundsson;Adrian Jenkins

  • Experimental protocol for sea level projections from ISMIP6 stand-alone ice sheet models

    Sophie Nowicki;Heiko Goelzer;Heiko Goelzer;Hélène Seroussi;Anthony J. Payne

  • Marine cold-air outbreaks in the North Atlantic: temporal distribution and associations with large-scale atmospheric circulation

    Erik W. Kolstad;Thomas J. Bracegirdle;Ivar A. Seierstad

  • Marine cold-air outbreaks in the future: an assessment of IPCC AR4 model results for the Northern Hemisphere

    Erik W. Kolstad;Thomas J. Bracegirdle

Frequent Co-Authors

John Turner
John Turner Natural Environment Research Council
Gareth J. Marshall
Gareth J. Marshall British Antarctic Survey
Jonathan M. Gregory
Jonathan M. Gregory University of Reading
Heiko Goelzer
Heiko Goelzer Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
Julian Gutt
Julian Gutt Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Peter Convey
Peter Convey British Antarctic Survey
Tim Woollings
Tim Woollings University of Oxford
Paul Andrew Mayewski
Paul Andrew Mayewski University of Maine
José C. Xavier
José C. Xavier University of Coimbra
Dominic A. Hodgson
Dominic A. Hodgson British Antarctic Survey

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