Alice Florence Wells

I am a postgraduate researcher at the University of Exeter. My research focuses on the impacts of Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI), a method of solar climate intervention. My Ph.D. focused on stratospheric aerosols and their impacts, from assessing the UK Earth System Model at replicating a recent volcanic eruption, to evaluating the impacts of multiple SAI strategies. Currently, I am investigating the impact of a particular SAI strategy on extreme events and how it varies compared to a greenhouse gas warmed world.

Publications

Wells, A. F.,  Henry, M.,  Bednarz, E. M.,  MacMartin, D. G.,  Jones, A.,  Dalvi, M., &  Haywood, J. M. (2024). Identifying climate impacts from different stratospheric aerosol injection strategies in UKESM1. Earth's Future,  12, e2023EF004358. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EF004358

Henry, M., Haywood, J., Jones, A., Dalvi, M., Wells, A., Visioni, D., Bednarz, E. M., MacMartin, D. G., Lee, W., and Tye, M. R.: Comparison of UKESM1 and CESM2 simulations using the same multi-target stratospheric aerosol injection strategy, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 13369–13385, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-13369-2023, 2023.

Visioni, D., A. Robock, J. Haywood, M. Henry, and A. Wells, 2023: A new era for the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP). Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0232.1. 

Wells, A. F., Jones, A., Osborne, M., Damany-Pearce, L., Partridge, D. G., and Haywood, J. M.: Including ash in UKESM1 model simulations of the Raikoke volcanic eruption reveals improved agreement with observations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 3985–4007, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-3985-2023, 2023.

Damany-Pearce, L., Johnson, B., Wells, A., Osborne, M., Allan, J., Belcher, C., Jones, A. and Haywood, J., 2022. Australian wildfires cause the largest stratospheric warming since Pinatubo and extends the lifetime of the Antarctic ozone hole. Scientific Reports, 12(1), p.12665.