Rowan Sutton
I am Director of Climate Research in the UK National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), based in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading. I am also a member of the Walker Institute.
My personal research interests lie in understanding the role of ocean-atmosphere interactions in climate, climate variability, predictability and prediction, particularly in the Atlantic sector.
 
Recent Publications
(this selection generated from centaur.reading.ac.uk. Click here for a fuller listing)
2012
Hodson, D. and Sutton, R. (2012) The impact of resolution on the adjustment and decadal variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in a coupled climate model. Climate Dynamics. ISSN 1432-0894 (In Press)
Hawkins, E. and Sutton, R. (2012) Time of emergence of climate signals. Geophysical Research Letters, 39 (1). L01702. ISSN 0094-8276
2011
Robson, J., Sutton, R., Lohmann, K., Smith, D. and Palmer, M. D. (2011) Causes of the rapid warming of the North Atlantic ocean in the mid 1990s. Journal of Climate. ISSN 0894-8755 (In Press)
Hawkins, E., Robson, J., Sutton, R., Smith, D. and Keenlyside, N. (2011) Evaluating the potential for statistical decadal predictions of sea surface temperatures with a perfect model approach. Climate Dynamics, 37 (11-12). pp. 2495-2509. ISSN 0930-7575
Joshi, M., Hawkins, E., Sutton, R., Lowe, J. and Frame, D. (2011) Projections of when temperature change will exceed 2°C above pre-industrial levels. Nature Climate Change, 1 (8). pp. 407-412. ISSN 1758-678X
Hawkins, E. and Sutton, R. T. (2011) The potential to narrow uncertainty in projections of regional precipitation change. Climate Dynamics, 37 (1-2). pp. 407-418. ISSN 1432-0894
Hawkins, E. and Sutton, R. (2011) Estimating climatically relevant singular vectors for decadal predictions of the Atlantic Ocean. Journal of Climate, 24 (1). pp. 109-123. ISSN 1520-0442
Ortega, P., Hawkins, E. and Sutton, R. (2011) Processes governing the predictability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation in a coupled GCM. Climate Dynamics, 37 (9-10). pp. 1771-1782. ISSN 0930-7575