Mr Daniel Williams (he/him)

I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate working with Cyril Morcrette and Jim Haywood as part of the project Quantifying and Reducing aviation Contrail radiative forcing (QR-CODE).

Previously I was a PhD student investigating the climates and atmospheres of moist terrestrial (Earth-like) planets, under the supervision of Prof. Geoff Vallis, Dr. Will Seviour and Dr. Stephen Thomson. My research involved using 3D climate models such as Isca to understand cloudy aquaplanets along with the hydrological cycle and greenhouse effect of tidally locked planets.

Publications:

• Williams, D. A., Ji, X., Corlies, P., Lora, J. M. (2023) Clouds and Seasonality on Terrestrial Planets with Varying Rotation Rates, Astrophysial Journal ApJ (pdf)
• Morton, J. M. et al. (2023) Global Warming and Arctic Terns: Estimating Climate Change Impacts on the World's Longest Migration, Global Change BIology (pdf)

Background:

• Physics and Astrophysics MSci, University of Birmingham, 2019
• Applied Meteorology & Climatology MSc, University of Birmingham, 2020

Supervision Activities:

• Rui Xu (2024) - MSc Weather and Climate (co-supervised with Stephen Thomson)
• Brian Dodd (2022) - MSc Advanced Mathematics (co-supervised with Will Seviour)

Teaching Activities:

• NSC1002 - Natural Sciences: Mathematics & Computing
• NSC1004 - Natural Sciences: Experimental Science
• NSC2001 - Natural Sciences: Frontiers in Experimental Science

You can find me on twitter @meteo_dan