Raymond Pierrehumbert | |
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Born | Raymond Thomas Pierrehumbert |
Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University |
Spouse | Janet Pierrehumbert |
Awards | Fellow of the AAAS, Ordre des Palmes académiques, Guggenheim Fellowship, Fellow of the Royal Society |
Scientific career | |
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 Pierrehumbert FRS is the Halley Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford. Previously, he was Louis Block Professor in Geophysical Sciences at the University 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 the National Research Council report on abrupt climate change.