Overview

I am an associate professor in the Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics group.

At present, my main research interests are:

• Large scale atmospheric physics and climatology of the Earth and other planets
• Clouds and the hydrological cycle
• Understanding model parameterisations

Please visit my personal webpage for more information.

Career

I joined Exeter in 2010, after a PhD from Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics at Oxford, a brief stint at CEH Wallingford, two years at the University of California, Berkeley and nearly three years at the UK Met Office Hadley Centre.

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Publications

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| 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 |

2024

• Dey D, Geen R, Lambert FH, Agrawal S, Vallis G, Marsh R, Skliris N, Döös K. (2024) Identification of the atmospheric water sources and pathways responsible for the East Asian summer monsoon rainfall, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, volume 150, no. 759, pages 763-775, DOI:10.1002/qj.4621.

2023

• Eager-Nash J. (2023) Life-climate interactions on the Archean Earth and exoplanets.
• Mutton H. (2023) Understanding Changes in West African Monsoon Precipitation Under Increased Levels of CO2.
• Natchiar SRM, Webb MJ, Lambert FH, Vallis GK, Morcrette CJ, Holloway CE, Sergeev D. (2023) Reduction in the Tropical High Cloud Fraction in Response to an Indirect Weakening of the Hadley Cell, DOI:10.22541/essoar.169447425.50983672/v1. [PDF]
• Hill PG, Holloway CE, Byrne MP, Lambert FH, Webb MJ. (2023) Climate Models Underestimate Dynamic Cloud Feedbacks in the Tropics, Geophysical Research Letters, volume 50, no. 15, DOI:10.1029/2023GL104573.
• Mutton H, Chadwick R, Collins M, Lambert FH, Taylor CM, Geen R, Todd A. (2023) The impact of a uniform ocean warming on the West African monsoon, Climate Dynamics, volume 62, no. 1, pages 103-122, DOI:10.1007/s00382-023-06898-1. [PDF]
• Ridgway R. (2023) Simulating the impact of stellar flares on the climate and habitability of terrestrial Earth–like exoplanets.
• Geen R, Pietschnig M, Agrawal S, Dey D, Lambert FH, Vallis GK. (2023) The Relationship between Model Biases in East Asian Summer Monsoon Rainfall and Land Evaporation, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, volume 40, no. 11, pages 2029-2042, DOI:10.1007/s00376-023-2297-1.
• Ridgway RJ, Zamyatina M, Mayne NJ, Manners J, Lambert FH, Braam M, Drummond B, Hebrar E, Palmer PI, Kohary K. (2023) 3D modelling of the impact of stellar activity on tidally locked terrestrial exoplanets: atmospheric composition and habitability (518, pg 2472, 2023), MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, volume 520, no. 2, pages 3007-3007, DOI:10.1093/mnras/stad402. [PDF]
• Eager-Nash JK, Mayne NJ, Nicholson AE, Prins JE, Young OCF, Daines SJ, Sergeev DE, Lambert FH, Manners J, Boutle IA. (2023) 3D climate simulations of the Archean find that methane has a strong cooling effect at high concentrations. [PDF]

2022

• Ridgway R, Zamyatina M, Mayne N, Manners J, Lambert F, Braam M, Drummond B, Hebrard E, Palmer P, Kohary K. (2022) 3D modelling of the impact of stellar activity on tidally locked terrestrial exoplanets: atmospheric composition and habitability, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, volume 518, pages 2472-2496, DOI:10.1093/mnras/stac3105.
• Sergeev DE, Lewis NT, Lambert FH, Mayne NJ, Boutle IA, Manners J, Kohary K. (2022) Bistability of the atmospheric circulation on TRAPPIST-1e. [PDF]
• Mutton H, Chadwick R, Collins M, Lambert FH, Geen R, Todd A, Taylor CM. (2022) The Impact of the Direct Radiative Effect of Increased CO2 on the West African Monsoon, Journal of Climate, volume 35, no. 8, pages 2441-2458, DOI:10.1175/jcli-d-21-0340.1.

2021

• Geen R, Lambert FH, Vallis GK. (2021) Development mechanisms and regional characteristics of the Asian monsoon system, DOI:10.1002/essoar.10507928.1.
• Turbet M, Fauchez TJ, Sergeev DE, Boutle IA, Tsigaridis K, Way MJ, Wolf ET, Domagal-Goldman SD, Forget F, Haqq-Misra J. (2021) The TRAPPIST-1 Habitable Atmosphere Intercomparison (THAI). Part I: Dry Cases -- The fellowship of the GCMs, DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2109.11457.
• Sergeev DE, Fauchez TJ, Turbet M, Boutle IA, Tsigaridis K, Way MJ, Wolf ET, Domagal-Goldman SD, Forget F, Haqq-Misra J. (2021) The TRAPPIST-1 Habitable Atmosphere Intercomparison (THAI). Part II: Moist Cases -- The Two Waterworlds, DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2109.11459.
• Sergeev DE, Fauchez TJ, Turbet M, Boutle IA, Tsigaridis K, Way MJ, Wolf ET, Domagal-Goldman SD, Forget F, Haqq-Misra J. (2021) The TRAPPIST-1 Habitable Atmosphere Intercomparison (THAI). Part II: Moist Cases -- The Two Waterworlds, Planet. Sci. J, volume 3. [PDF]
• Turbet M, Fauchez TJ, Sergeev DE, Boutle IA, Tsigaridis K, Way MJ, Wolf ET, Domagal-Goldman SD, Forget F, Haqq-Misra J. (2021) The TRAPPIST-1 Habitable Atmosphere Intercomparison (THAI). Part I: Dry Cases -- The fellowship of the GCMs, Planet. Sci. J, volume 3. [PDF]
• Pietschnig M, Swann ALS, Lambert FH, Vallis GK. (2021) Response of Tropical Rainfall to Reduced Evapotranspiration Depends on Continental Extent, Journal of Climate, volume 34, no. 23, pages 9221-9234, DOI:10.1175/jcli-d-21-0195.1. [PDF]
• Beverley JD, Collins M, Lambert FH, Chadwick R. (2021) Future Changes to El Niño Teleconnections over the North Pacific and North America, Journal of Climate, pages 1-43, DOI:10.1175/jcli-d-20-0877.1. [PDF]

2020

• Geen R, Lambert FH, Vallis GK. (2020) The Asian Monsoons as a Unified System, DOI:10.1002/essoar.10504671.1.
• Sergeev DE, Lambert FH, Mayne NJ, Boutle IA, Manners J, Kohary K. (2020) Atmospheric convection plays a key role in the climate of tidally-locked terrestrial exoplanets: insights from high-resolution simulations, DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2004.03007.
• Eager JK, Reichelt DJ, Mayne NJ, Lambert FH, Sergeev DE, Ridgway RJ, Manners J, Boutle IA, Lenton TM, Kohary K. (2020) Implications of different stellar spectra for the climate of tidally-locked Earth-like exoplanets, DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2005.13002.
• Boutle IA, Joshi M, Lambert FH, Mayne NJ, Lyster D, Manners J, Ridgway R, Kohary K. (2020) Mineral dust increases the habitability of terrestrial planets but confounds biomarker detection, DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2006.04867.
• Pietschnig M. (2020) Understanding Changes in Tropical Precipitation due to Climate Change.
• Lambert FH, Challenor PG, Lewis NT, McNeall DJ, Owen N, Boutle IA, Christensen HM, Keane RJ, Mayne NJ, Stirling A. (2020) Continuous Structural Parameterization: A Proposed Method for Representing Different Model Parameterizations Within One Structure Demonstrated for Atmospheric Convection, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, volume 12, no. 8, DOI:10.1029/2020ms002085. [PDF]
• Saint-Lu M, Chadwick R, Lambert FH, Collins M, Boutle I, Whitall M, Daleu C. (2020) Influences of Local and Remote Conditions on Tropical Precipitation and Its Response to Climate Change, JOURNAL OF CLIMATE, volume 33, no. 10, pages 4045-4063, DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0450.1. [PDF]
• Eager J, Reichelt D, Mayne N, Lambert F, Sergeev D, Ridgway R, Manners J, Boutle I, Lenton T, Kohary K. (2020) Implications of different stellar spectra for the climate of tidally--locked Earth-like exoplanets, Astronomy and Astrophysics.
• Yoshimori M, Lambert FH, Webb MJ, Andrews T. (2020) Fixed Anvil Temperature Feedback: Positive, Zero, or Negative?, JOURNAL OF CLIMATE, volume 33, no. 7, pages 2719-2739, DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0108.1. [PDF]

2019

• Saint‐Lu M, Chadwick R, Lambert FH, Collins M. (2019) Surface Warming and Atmospheric Circulation Dominate Rainfall Changes Over Tropical Rainforests Under Global Warming, Geophysical Research Letters, volume 46, no. 22, pages 13410-13419, DOI:10.1029/2019gl085295. [PDF]
• Pietschnig M, Lambert FH, Saint‐Lu M, Vallis GK. (2019) The Presence of Africa and Limited Soil Moisture Contribute to Future Drying of South America, Geophysical Research Letters, volume 46, no. 21, pages 12445-12453, DOI:10.1029/2019gl084441. [PDF]
• Todd A. (2019) Understanding future changes in tropical rainfall and its variability.

2018

• Lewis NT, Lambert FH, Boutle IA, Mayne NJ, Manners J, Acreman DM. (2018) The influence of a sub-stellar continent on the climate of a tidally-locked exoplanet, DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1802.00378.
• Osborne JM, Lambert FH. (2018) A simple tool for refining GCM water availability projections, applied to Chinese catchments, DOI:10.5194/hess-2018-162. [PDF]
• Boutle IA, Mayne NJ, Drummond B, Manners J, Goyal J, Lambert FH, Acreman DM, Earnshaw PD. (2018) Exploring the climate of Proxima B with the Met Office Unified Model (vol 601, A120, 2017), ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, volume 617, article no. ARTN C1, DOI:10.1051/0004-6361/201630020e. [PDF]
• Webb MJ, Lock AP, Lambert FH. (2018) No access interactions between hydrological sensitivity, radiative cooling, stability, and low-level cloud amount feedback, Journal of Climate, volume 31, no. 5, pages 1833-1850, DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0895.1.
• Geen R, Lambert FH, Vallis GK. (2018) Regime Change Behaviour During Asian Monsoon Onset, Journal of Climate, DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0118.1.

2017

• Boutle IA, Mayne NJ, Drummond B, Manners J, Goyal J, Lambert FH, Acreman DM, Earnshaw PD. (2017) Exploring the climate of Proxima B with the Met Office Unified Model, DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1702.08463.
• Collins M, Todd A, Lambert H, Chadwick R. (2017) Diagnosing ENSO and global warming tropical precipitation shifts using 2 surface relative humidity and temperature, Journal of Climate.
• Henke LMK, Lambert FH, Charman DJ. (2017) Was the Little Ice Age more or less El Niño-like than the Medieval Climate Anomaly? Evidence from hydrological and temperature proxy data, Climate of the Past, volume 13, no. 3, pages 267-301, DOI:10.5194/cp-13-267-2017. [PDF]
• Boutle I, Mayne NJ, Drummond B, Manners J, Goyal J, Lambert FH, Acreman D, Earnshaw PD. (2017) Exploring the climate of Proxima B with the Met Office Unified Model, Astronomy and Astrophysics, DOI:10.1051/0004-6361/201630020.

2015

• Henke LMK, Lambert FH, Charman DJ. (2015) Was the Little Ice Age more or less El Niño-like than the Mediaeval Climate Anomaly? Evidence from hydrological and temperature proxy data, volume 11, no. 6, pages 5549-5604, DOI:10.5194/cpd-11-5549-2015.
• Osborne JM, Lambert FH, Groenendijk M, Harper AB, Koven CD, Poulter B, Pugh TAM, Sitch S, Stocker BD, Wiltshire A. (2015) Reconciling Precipitation with Runoff: Observed Hydrological Change in the Midlatitudes, Journal of Hydrometeorology, volume 16, no. 6, pages 2403-2420, DOI:10.1175/jhm-d-15-0055.1. [PDF]
• Halloran PR, Booth BBB, Jones CD, Lambert FH, McNeall DJ, Totterdell IJ, Völker C. (2015) The mechanisms of North Atlantic CO2 uptake in a large Earth System Model ensemble, Biogeosciences, volume 12, no. 14, pages 4497-4508, DOI:10.5194/bg-12-4497-2015.
• Ferraro AJ, Lambert FH, Collins M, Miles GM. (2015) Physical Mechanisms of Tropical Climate Feedbacks Investigated Using Temperature and Moisture Trends, Journal of Climate, volume 28, no. 22, pages 8968-8987, DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0253.1.
• Ferraro AJ, Collins M, Lambert FH. (2015) A hiatus in the stratosphere?, Nature Climate Change, volume 5, pages 497-498, DOI:10.1038/nclimate2624.
• Lambert FH, Webb MJ, Yoshimori M, Yokohata T. (2015) Erratum to: The cloud radiative effect on the atmospheric energy budget and global mean precipitation [Clim Dyn, DOI 10.1007/s00382-014-2174-9], Climate Dynamics, volume 44, no. 7-8, DOI:10.1007/s00382-014-2311-5.
• Williams HTP, McMurray JM, Kurz TR, Lambert FH. (2015) Network analysis reveals open forums and echo chambers in social media discussions of climate change, Global Environmental Change, volume 32, pages 126-138, DOI:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.03.006.

2014

• Halloran PR, Booth BBB, Jones CD, Lambert FH, McNeall DJ, Totterdell IJ, Völker C. (2014) The mechanisms of North Atlantic CO2 uptake in a large Earth System Model ensemble, volume 11, no. 10, pages 14551-14585, DOI:10.5194/bgd-11-14551-2014.
• Levy AAL, Jenkinson M, Ingram W, Lambert FH, Huntingford C, Allen M. (2014) Increasing the detectability of external influence on precipitation by correcting feature location in GCMs, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, volume 119, no. 22, pages 12-478, DOI:10.1002/2014JD022358.
• Lambert FH, Taylor PC. (2014) Regional variation of the tropical water vapor and lapse rate feedbacks, Geophysical Research Letters, volume 41, no. 21, pages 7634-7641, DOI:10.1002/2014GL061987.
• Ogura T, Webb MJ, Watanabe M, Lambert FH, Tsushima Y, Sekiguchi M. (2014) Importance of instantaneous radiative forcing for rapid tropospheric adjustment, Climate Dynamics, volume 43, no. 5-6, pages 1409-1421, DOI:10.1007/s00382-013-1955-x.
• Osborne JM, Lambert FH. (2014) The missing aerosol response in twentieth-century mid-latitude precipitation observations, Nature Climate Change, volume 4, no. 5, pages 374-378, DOI:10.1038/nclimate2173.

2013

• Lambert FH, Harris GR, Collins M, Murphy JM, Sexton DMH, Booth BBB. (2013) Interactions between perturbations to different Earth system components simulated by a fully-coupled climate model, Climate Dynamics, volume 41, no. 11-12, pages 3055-3072, DOI:10.1007/s00382-012-1618-3.
• Joshi MM, Lambert FH, Webb MJ. (2013) An explanation for the difference between twentieth and twenty-first century land-sea warming ratio in climate models, Climate Dynamics, volume 41, no. 7-8, pages 1853-1869, DOI:10.1007/s00382-013-1664-5.
• . (2013) Can correcting feature location in simulated mean climate improve agreement on projected changes?, Geophysical Research Letters, volume 40, no. 2, pages 354-358, DOI:10.1029/2012GL053964.
• Webb MJ, Lambert FH, Gregory JM. (2013) Origins of differences in climate sensitivity, forcing and feedback in climate models, CLIMATE DYNAMICS, volume 40, no. 3-4, pages 677-707, DOI:10.1007/s00382-012-1336-x. [PDF]
• Joshi MM, Lambert FH, Webb MJ. (2013) An explanation for the difference between twentieth and twenty-first century land-sea warming ratio in climate models, Climate Dynamics, pages 1-17.

2012

• Falloon PD, Dankers R, Betts RA, Jones CD, Booth BBB, Lambert FH. (2012) Role of vegetation change in future climate under the A1B scenario and a climate stabilisation scenario, using the HadCM3C earth system model, volume 9, no. 6, pages 7601-7659, DOI:10.5194/bgd-9-7601-2012.
• Lambert FH, Harris GR, Collins M, Murphy JM, Sexton DMH, Booth BBB. (2012) Interactions between perturbations to different Earth system components simulated by a fully-coupled climate model, Climate Dynamics, pages 1-18.
• Good P, Ingram W, Lambert FH, Lowe JA, Gregory JM, Webb MJ, Ringer MA, Wu P. (2012) A step-response approach for predicting and understanding non-linear precipitation changes, Climate Dynamics, volume 39, no. 12, pages 2789-2803, DOI:10.1007/s00382-012-1571-1.
• Falloon PD, Dankers R, Betts RA, Jones CD, Booth BBB, Lambert FH. (2012) Role of vegetation change in future climate under the A1B scenario and a climate stabilisation scenario, using the HadCM3C Earth system model, Biogeosciences, volume 9, no. 11, pages 4739-4756, DOI:10.5194/bg-9-4739-2012.
• Good P, Ingram W, Lambert FH, Lowe JA, Gregory JM, Webb MJ, Ringer MA, Wu P. (2012) A step-response approach for predicting and understanding non-linear precipitation changes, Climate Dynamics, pages 1-15.
• Webb MJ, Lambert FH, Gregory JM. (2012) Origins of differences in climate sensitivity, forcing and feedback in climate models, Climate Dynamics, pages 1-31.
• Ferro CAT, Jupp TE, Lambert FH, Huntingford C, Cox PM. (2012) Model complexity versus ensemble size: allocating resources for climate prediction, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, volume 370, pages 1087-1099, DOI:10.1098/rsta.2011.0307. [PDF]

2011

• Lambert FH, Webb MJ, Joshi MM. (2011) The relationship between land-ocean surface temperature contrast and radiative forcing, Journal of Climate, volume 24, no. 13, pages 3239-3256, DOI:10.1175/2011JCLI3893.1.

2009

• Lambert FH, Allen MR. (2009) Are changes in global precipitation constrained by the tropospheric energy budget?, Journal of Climate, volume 22, no. 3, pages 499-517, DOI:10.1175/2008JCLI2135.1.

2008

• Lambert FH, Stine AR, Krakauer NY, Chiang JCH. (2008) How much will precipitation increase with global warming?, EOS trans, volume 89, no. 21, DOI:10.1029/2008EO210001.
• Lambert FH, Webb MJ. (2008) Dependency of global mean precipitation on surface temperature, Geophysical Research Letters, volume 35, no. 16, DOI:10.1029/2008GL034838.

2007

• Lambert FH, Faull NE. (2007) Tropospheric adjustment: The response of two general circulation models to a change in insolation, Geophysical Research Letters, volume 34, no. 3, DOI:10.1029/2006GL028124.
• Lambert FH, Chiang JCH. (2007) Control of land-ocean temperature contrast by ocean heat uptake, Geophysical Research Letters, volume 34, no. 13, DOI:10.1029/2007GL029755.
• Zhang X, Zwiers FW, Hegerl GC, Lambert FH, Gillett NP, Solomon S, Stott PA, Nozawa T. (2007) Detection of human influence on twentieth-century precipitation trends, Nature, volume 448, no. 7152, pages 461-465, DOI:10.1038/nature06025. [PDF]

2006

• Huntingford C, Stott PA, Allen MR, Lambert FH. (2006) Incorporating model uncertainty into attribution of observed temperature change, Geophysical Research Letters, volume 33, no. 5, DOI:10.1029/2005GL024831.

2005

• Lambert FH, Gillett NP, Stone DA, Huntingford C. (2005) Attribution studies of observed land precipitation changes with nine coupled models, Geophysical Research Letters, volume 32, no. 18, pages 1-4, DOI:10.1029/2005GL023654.
• Huntingford C, Lambert FH, Gash JHC, Taylor CM, Challinor AJ. (2005) Aspects of climate change prediction relevant to crop productivity, Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, volume 360, no. 1463, pages 1999-2009, DOI:10.1098/rstb.2005.1748. [PDF]

2004

• Lambert FH, Stott PA, Allen MR, Palmer MA. (2004) Detection and attribution of changes in 20th century land precipitation, Geophysical Research Letters, volume 31, no. 10, DOI:10.1029/2004GL019545.

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