Geography
Dr Joy Singarayer
MSc(Lond), DPhil(Oxon)
Lecturer in Oceanography and Allied Climate Modelling Research
Contact
Office: G.6N
Tel: +44 (0)117 928 9068
Fax: +44 (0)117 9287878
Email: joy.singarayer@bristol.ac.uk
Research interests
In the broadest sense I investigate processes that have caused changes in the Earth's climate system in the past, using a range of climate models. I am particularly interested in Quaternary climates (the last 2 million years), and the feedbacks between the ocean, atmosphere, cryosphere and biosphere on interannual to millennial timescales. I mainly work with the Hadley Centre climate model and with intermediate complexity models, such as GENIE. I am also interested in how climate change on these different timescales has driven human evolution, behaviour and distribution on the planet, which is also the main focus of the final year undergraduate course I teach.
Selected publications
Burrough S.L., Thomas D.S.G. & Singarayer, JS. 'Late Quaternary hydrological dynamics in the Middle Kalahari: Forcing and feedbacks', Earth Science Reviews, 96, (pp. 313-326), 2009. ISSN: 0012-8252 10.1016/j.earscirev.2009.07.001
Ridgwell, AJ, Singarayer, JS, Hetherington, AM & Valdes, PJ. 'Tackling Regional Climate Change By Leaf Albedo Bio-geoengineering', Current Biology, 19, (pp. 1-5), 2009. ISSN: 0960-9822 10.1016/j.cub.2008.12.025
Singarayer, JS, Richards, DA, Ridgwell, AJ, Valdes, PJ, Austin, WEN & Beck, JW. 'An oceanic origin for the increase of atmospheric radiocarbon during the Younger Dryas', Geophysical Research Letters, 35 (L147047), (pp. 1-6), 2008. ISSN: 0094-8276 10.1029/2008GL034074
Singarayer, JS, Bamber, JL & Valdes, PJ. 'Twenty-first-century climate impacts from a declining Arctic sea ice cover', Journal of Climate, 19 (4), (pp. 1109-1125), 2006. ISSN: 0894-8755 10.1175/JCLI3649.1