Geography
Dr Dan Lunt
MPhys(Oxon), PhD(Reading)
Senior Research Fellow
Contact
Office: G9N
Tel: +44 (0)117 331 7483
Fax: +44 (0)117 9287878
Email: d.j.lunt@bristol.ac.uk
Research interests
I am a research fellow in the School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, and am jointly funded by the British Antarctic Survey and RCUK.
My research interests are broad, but a particular focus is on icesheet-climate interactions, both in the past and in the future.
Other research focuses on understanding aspects of the palaeo record. The analysis and interpretation of palaeo data has led to the formation of many hypotheses regarding the mechanisms affecting past climate change. Models are ideal tools to test these hypotheses. In addition, modelling can itself lead to hypotheses which are testable by the collection and interpretation of new data, and can indicate regions in which new data could usefully be collected.
I am also carrying out work on the climatic impacts of geoengineering - the “intentional large-scale manipulation of the environment”.
I am an executive editor of the new EGU journal, Geoscientific Model Development, which is primarily for model descriptions, from box models to GCMs. The philosophy behind the journal, which aims to improve rigour and traceability in climate modelling, is described here.
I have previously worked at the LSCE in Paris, and the Meteorology department in Reading.
Selected publications
Lunt, DJ, Ridgwell, AJ, Sluijs, A., Zachos, J., Hunter, S. & Haywood, A.. 'A model for orbital pacing of methane hydrate destabilization during the Palaeogene', Nature Geoscience, 4, (pp. 775-778), 2011. 10.1038/ngeo1266
Lunt, DJ, Haywood, AM, Schmidt, GA, Salzmann, U, Valdes, PJ & Dowsett, HJ. 'Earth system sensitivity inferred from Pliocene modelling and data', Nature Geoscience, 3, (pp. 60-64), 2010. 10.1038/NGEO706
Lunt, DJ, Foster, GL, Haywood, AM & Stone, EJ. 'Late Pliocene Greenland glaciation controlled by a decline in atmospheric CO2 levels', Nature, 454, (pp. 1102-1105), 2008. 10.1038/nature07223
Lunt, DJ, Ridgwell, AJ, Valdes, PJ & Seale, A.. '"Sunshade World": A fully coupled GCM evaluation of the climatic impacts of geoengineering', Geophys. Res. Lett, 35, (pp. -), 2008. 10.1029/2008GL033674