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Chris Fletcher
Assistant Professor,
SHARCNET Research Chair
Geography and Environmental Management
Contact Information:
Phone: +1-519-888-4567 ext. 36855
Office: EV1 - 230
Email: chris.fletcher(at)uwaterloo.ca
Personal Homepage: Visit homepage |
Degrees:
| B.Sc. |
University of Manchester, UK |
| M.Sc. |
University of Reading, UK |
| Ph.D. |
University College London, UK |
Research Interests:
The aim of my research program is to better understand the impact of climate change on atmospheric circulation patterns over Canada, the US and Europe, on timescales ranging from seasons to decades. I use state-of-the-art computer models to perform numerical experiments on the climate system on some of the world's most powerful supercomputers. Some of my key research interests are:
- Large-scale climate dynamics and teleconnections
- Seasonal-to-decadal climate prediction
- Land-ocean-atmosphere interaction
- Atmospheric general circulation
- The representation of climate feedback processes in general circulation models
I am currently looking for enthusiastic and talented graduate students to work with on these topics. If you are interested please contact me.
Recent/Key Publications:
- Fletcher, C. G., and P. J. Kushner, 2010: The role of linear interference in the Annular Mode response to tropical SST forcing, J. Climate, in press.
- Smith, K.L., C.G. Fletcher and P.J. Kushner, 2010: The role of linear interference in the Annular Mode response to extratropical surface forcing, in press, J. Climate.
- Fletcher, C. G., S. C. Hardiman, P. J. Kushner and J. Cohen, 2009: The dynamical response to snow cover perturbations in a large ensemble of atmospheric GCM integrations, J. Climate, 22, 1208–1222.
- -Fletcher, C. G., P. J. Kushner, A. Hall and X. Qu, 2009: Circulation responses to snow albedo feedback in climate change, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L09702, doi:10.1029/2009GL038011.
- Fletcher, C. G., P. J. Kushner and J. Cohen, 2007: Stratospheric control of the extratropical circulation response to surface forcing, Geophys. Res. Lett.,34, L21802, doi:10.1029/2007GL031626.
- Cohen, J. and C. Fletcher, 2007: Northern Hemisphere Winter Surface Temperature Predictions based on Land-Atmosphere Fall Anomalies, J. Climate,20(16), 4118-4132, doi: 10.1175/JCLI4241.1.
