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Raymond Pierrehumbert | |
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| Born | Raymond Thomas Pierrehumbert |
| Alma mater | Harvard University Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Spouse | Janet Pierrehumbert |
| Awards | Fellow of the AAAS,Ordre des Palmes académiques,Guggenheim Fellowship,Fellow of the Royal Society |
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| Fields | Geophysics,climatology |
| Institutions | University of Chicago University of Oxford |
| Thesis | The structure and stability of large vortices in an inviscid flow (1980) |
| Notable students | Joshua Wurman |
Raymond Thomas PierrehumbertFRS is the Halley Professor of Physics at theUniversity of Oxford. Previously, he was Louis Block Professor in Geophysical Sciences at theUniversity of Chicago. He was a lead author on the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and a co-author of theNational Research Council report onabrupt climate change.
He earned a degree in physics (A.B) fromHarvard College and a Ph.D. in aeronautics and astronautics from theMassachusetts Institute of Technology.[1]
He was awarded a John SimonGuggenheim Fellowship in 1996, which was used to launch collaborative work on the climate of early Mars with collaborators inParis. He is a Fellow of theAmerican Geophysical Union (AGU) and has been named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques by theRepublic of France. He was elected to theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015 and sits on the Science and Security Board of theBulletin of the Atomic Scientists. In 2020, Pierrehumbert was elected aFellow of the Royal Society.[2]
Pierrehumbert's central research interest is howclimate works as a system and developing idealizedmathematical models to be used to address questions of climate science such as how the earth kept from freezing over: thefaint young sun paradox.[3]
Pierrehumbert contributes toRealClimate[4] and is a strong critic ofsolar geoengineering research.[5]
He also is very active in the study of the climate ofExoplanets.[6]
Pierrehumbert is married toJanet Pierrehumbert, professor of Language Modeling at theUniversity of Oxford.[7]
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