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Overview

Tim Woollings is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to Environmental Science. Within these fields, their subfield expertise lies in Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Oceanography.

Woollings' work covers several key topics, including:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Climate change and permafrost

Their recent publications reflect an emphasis on atmospheric dynamics and climate variability. Selected papers include:

  • "Atmospheric blocking and weather extremes over the Euro-Atlantic sector - a review", 2022, Weather and Climate Dynamics
  • "Trends in the atmospheric jet streams are emerging in observations and could be linked to tropical warming", 2023, Communications Earth & Environment
  • "A new combined detection algorithm for blocking and subtropical ridges", 2021, Journal of Climate
  • "Projections of northern hemisphere extratropical climate underestimate internal variability and associated uncertainty", 2021, Communications Earth & Environment
  • "Dynamical Differences Between Short and Long Blocks in the Northern Hemisphere", 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Woollings frequently collaborates with several researchers in the field, including:

  • Christopher O'Reilly
  • Kunhui Ye
  • Matthew Patterson
  • James A. Screen
  • Sarah Sparrow

Their publications often appear in a core set of journals, with the most frequent venues being:

  • Journal of Climate
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Weather and Climate Dynamics
  • npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
  • Communications Earth & Environment

Best Publications

  • The Met Office Global Coupled Model 3.0 and 3.1 (GC3.0 and GC3.1) Configurations

    K. D. Williams;D. Copsey;E. W. Blockley;A. Bodas‐Salcedo

  • Variability of the North Atlantic eddy‐driven jet stream

    Tim Woollings;Abdel Hannachi;Brian Hoskins

  • Blocking and its Response to Climate Change

    Tim Woollings;David E. Barriopedro;John Methven;Seok-Woo Son

  • A New Rossby Wave–Breaking Interpretation of the North Atlantic Oscillation

    Tim James Woollings;Brian John Hoskins;Michael Blackburn;Paul Berrisford

  • Global and European climate impacts of a slowdown of the AMOC in a high resolution GCM

    L. C. Jackson;R. Kahana;T. Graham;M. A. Ringer

  • Response of the North Atlantic storm track to climate change shaped by ocean–atmosphere coupling

    Tim Woollings;Jonathan M. Gregory;Joaquim G Pinto;M. Reyers

  • The Met Office Global Coupled model 2.0 (GC2) configuration

    K. D. Williams;C. M. Harris;A. Bodas-Salcedo;J. Camp

  • Winter and Summer Northern Hemisphere Blocking in CMIP5 Models

    Giacomo Masato;Brian J. Hoskins;Tim Woollings

  • Bistability of the Atlantic overturning circulation in a global climate model and links to ocean freshwater transport

    Ed Hawkins;Robin S. Smith;Lesley C. Allison;Jonathan M. Gregory;Jonathan M. Gregory

  • Exploring recent trends in Northern Hemisphere blocking

    Elizabeth A. Barnes;Etienne Dunn-Sigouin;Giacomo Masato;Tim Woollings

  • Atmospheric Blocking and Mean Biases in Climate Models

    Adam A. Scaife;Tim Woollings;Jeff Knight;Gill Martin

  • Are cold winters in Europe associated with low solar activity

    Michael Lockwood;Michael Lockwood;Richard Giles Harrison;Tim James Woollings;Sami K. Solanki

  • Equator-to-pole temperature differences and the extra-tropical storm track responses of the CMIP5 climate models

    B. J. Harvey;L. C. Shaffrey;T. J. Woollings

  • The North Atlantic jet stream under climate change and its relation to the NAO and EA patterns

    Tim Woollings;Mike Blackburn

  • Persistent Extratropical Regimes and Climate Extremes

    Brian Hoskins;Brian Hoskins;Tim Woollings

  • Associations between stratospheric variability and tropospheric blocking

    Tim James Woollings;Andrew James Charlton-Perez;S. Ineson;A. G. Marshall

  • Dynamical influences on European climate: an uncertain future

    Tim Woollings

  • Wave‐breaking characteristics of midlatitude blocking

    Giacomo Masato;B.J. Hoskins;Tim J Woollings

  • Low-frequency nonlinearity and regime behavior in the Northern Hemisphere extratropical atmosphere

    Abdelwaheb Hannachi;David M. Straus;Christian L. E. Franzke;Susanna Corti

  • 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

  • Near-term climate change:Projections and predictability

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian J. Hoskins
Brian J. Hoskins University of Reading
Joaquim G. Pinto
Joaquim G. Pinto Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Antje Weisheimer
Antje Weisheimer University of Oxford
Myles R. Allen
Myles R. Allen University of Oxford
Len Shaffrey
Len Shaffrey University of Reading
Adam A. Scaife
Adam A. Scaife Met Office
Ed Hawkins
Ed Hawkins University of Reading
Kevin I. Hodges
Kevin I. Hodges University of Reading
Camille Li
Camille Li University of Bergen
Mike Lockwood
Mike Lockwood University of Reading

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