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Professor James Screen

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Professor James Screen

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Mathematics and Statistics

Prof. Screen is a Professor in Climate Science within the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy. He current research focuses on the climate of the Polar Regions and how Arctic sea-ice loss influences mid-latitude weather and climate. His work has significantly advanced scientific understanding of the causes, and global effects, of rapid Arctic climate change. Prof. Screen is an internationally recognised expert in modelling the climate response to Arctic sea ice changes.

 

Prof. Screen held a prestigous NERC Fellowship from 2012-2015. His achievements have been recognized by the awards of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences Early Career Scientist Medal in 2013, Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2015, and 2023 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK.

 

Recent Publications

A full list of publications and citations can be found here.

 

2025

  • Zhang, C., J. Zhang, A.C. Maycock, J.A. Screen & X. Zhou, 2025: Barents-Kara sea ice variability drives stronger tropospheric anomalies over East Asia after 2000 due to weakened stratospheric polar vortex. Nature Clim. Change, submitted.
  • Suitters, C.C., J.A. Screen, J.L. Catto, J.M. Jones, S. Li,  A. Orr, A.A. Scaife & H. Tang, 2025: Assessing the likelihood of unprecedented Antarctic heat in the current climate. J. Climate, submitted.
  • Screen, J.A., A. Audette, R. Blackport, C. Deser, M. England, N. Feldl, M. Gervais, S. Hay, P. Kushner, Y.-C. Liang, R. Msadek, R. Mudhar, M. Sigmond, D. Smith, L. Sun & H. Yu, 2025: Causes and consequences of polar amplification elucidated by coordinated multimodel experiments. Commun. Earth & Environ., submitted.
  • Cai, Z., Q. You, J.A. Screen, H.W. Chen, R. Zhang, Z. Zuo, D. Chen, J. Cohen, S. Kang, W. Ma, S.K. Gulev, G.W.K. Moore & R. Zhang, 2025: Arctic coupled sea-ice loss and wetting linked to Atlantic Multidecadal Variability. Sci. Adv., in revision. 
  • Siew, P.Y.F., Y. Wu & J.A. Screen, 2025: Detectable human influence on reduced subseasonal temperature variability driven by Arctic sea-ice loss. Atmos. Sci. Lett., in revision.
  • Mudhar, R. W.J. Seviour, J.A. Screen, S.I. Thomson & C. Turrell, 2025: Diverse and weak simulated stratospheric responses to future Arctic sea-ice loss. J. Geophys. Res., revised.
  • Walsh, A., J.A. Screen, A.A. Sciafe, D.M. Smith & R. Eade, 2025: Interdependent extratropical atmospheric responses to Arctic sea-ice loss, QBO and ENSO. J. Clim., revised.
  • Chan, A.C., M. England, J.A. Screen, T.J. Bracegirdle, E.W. Blockley & C.R. Holmes, 2025: Extreme Antarctic sea ice loss facilitated by negative shift of Southern Annular Mode. Geophys. Res. Lett., revised.
  • Saurral, R., J.A. Screen & F. Doblas-Reyes, 2025: Model-dependent response of low clouds to Arctic sea-ice loss. Geophys. Res. Lett., accepted.
  • Xu, M., S. Kang, J.A. Screen, A. Audette, W. Tian, J. Zhang, H. Yu & H. Zhang, 2025: Ocean-atmosphere coupling enhances Eurasian cooling in response to historical Barents-Kara sea-ice lossnpj Clim. Atmos. Sci., 8, 318.
  • Xu, P., J.A. Screen, L. Wang, T. Woollings, H. Fan, M. Patterson & Z. Dong, 2025: Impact of Asian summer monsoon on the 2021 Pacific Northwest heatwave: Can it? Did it? Geophys. Res. Lett., accepted.
  • England, M., L.M. Polvani, J.A. Screen & A.C. Chan, 2025: Minimal Arctic sea ice loss in the last 20 years, consistent with internal climate variabilityGeophys. Res. Lett., 52, e2025GL116175.
  • Grist, J., S.A. Josey, B. Sinha, J.A. Screen, R. Marsh & D. Dey, 2025: The impact of a subpolar North Atlantic freshwater anomaly on Eurasian winter climate. J. Clim. accepted.
  • Hay, S., E. Blockley, J.L. Catto, H. Hewitt, Y.T.E. Lo, J.A. Screen, D.M. Smith & H. Yu, 2025: The impact of Arctic sea-ice loss on winter weather in the British Isles. Q.J.R. Meteorol. Soc., accepted.
  • Hay, S., J.L. Catto, J.A. Screen & H. Yu, 2025: The tug-of-war on the storm tracks between sea-ice loss and ocean warming is mainly an Atlantic phenomenonJ. Clim., 38, 4907-4924.
  • Saurral, R.I., F.J. Doblas-Reyes, J.A. Screen, J.L. Catto, S.E. Hay & H. Yu, 2025: Western Mediterranean droughts fostered by Arctic sea ice lossJ. Clim., 38, 3005-3014.
  • Ball, E., Y.T.E. Lo, P.A.G. Watson, E. Lavigne, J.A. Screen, K. Ye & D. Mitchell, 2025: No detectable decrease in extreme cold-related mortality in Canada from Arctic sea-ice lossEnviron. Res. Lett., 20, 044042.

 

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