Raymond Pierrehumbert

Raymond Pierrehumbert
Born
Raymond Thomas Pierrehumbert
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University
SpouseJanet Pierrehumbert
AwardsFellow of the AAAS, Ordre des Palmes académiques, Guggenheim Fellowship, Fellow of the Royal Society
Scientific career
FieldsGeophysics, climatology
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago
University of Oxford
ThesisThe structure and stability of large vortices in an inviscid flow (1980)
Notable studentsJoshua 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.