Overview

I joined the mathematics department of Exeter University in April 2015 as a post-doctoral research scientist. I am part of the NERC funded Impacts of Pacific Ocean warming trends (ImPOse) project led by Robin Chadwick. ImPOse seeks to determine the causes and impacts of tropical Pacific errors in climate models. In this role I am assessing present-day tropical Pacific model biases, their links to long-term SST trends and their impact on global climate.

Prior to ImPOse, I was part of the ParaCon project that aims to significantly improve the representation of convection across model scales from 1-100km. In this position I worked with Geoff Vallis and John Thuburn, with support from the Met Office. In collaboraion with Paul Earnshaw, we are building a flexable modelling framework for the UM (Flex-UM).

In 2014 I completed my PhD in climate science, supervised by Steven Sherwood, within the Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC) at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. For my PhD I investigated how large-scale variability influences observed precipitation and assessed if CMIP models can reproduce the observed interactions. I also performed an aquaplanet modelling study aimed to increase intraseasonal variability, specifically the Madden-Julian Oscillation.

I founded and co-organise the Women in Climate (WiC) Network within the University of Exeter. We are an early career researcher network that have monthly catch-ups to discuss different themes relevant to women in climate and science more broadly. More information can be found on our WiC Network page.
 

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Publications

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2024

• Pendergrass AG, Byrne MP, Watt-Meyer O, Maher P, Webb MJ. (2024) Impact of ITCZ width on global climate: ITCZ-MIP, DOI:10.5194/gmd-2024-17. [PDF]

2022

• Maher P, Earnshaw P. (2022) The Flexible Modelling Framework for the Met Office Unified Model (Flex-UM, using UM 12.0 release), Geoscientific Model Development, volume 15, no. 3, pages 1177-1194, DOI:10.5194/gmd-15-1177-2022. [PDF]

2021

• Maher P, Earnshaw P. (2021) The Flexible Modelling Framework for the Met Office Unified Model (Flex-UM, part of the UM 12.1 release), DOI:10.5194/gmd-2021-193. [PDF]
• Liu Q, Collins M, Maher P, Thomson SI, Vallis GK. (2021) SimCloud version 1.0: a simple diagnostic cloud scheme for idealized climate models, Geoscientific Model Development, volume 14, no. 5, pages 2801-2826, DOI:10.5194/gmd-14-2801-2021. [PDF]
• Hwong YL, Song S, Sherwood SC, Stirling AJ, Rio C, Roehrig R, Daleu CL, Plant RS, Fuchs D, Maher P. (2021) Characterizing Convection Schemes Using Their Responses to Imposed Tendency Perturbations, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, volume 13, no. 5, DOI:10.1029/2021ms002461. [PDF]
• Hwong Y-L, Song S, Sherwood S, Stirling A, Rio C, Roehrig R, Daleu CL, Plant RS, Fuchs D, Maher P. (2021) Characterizing Convection Schemes Using Their Responses to Imposed Tendency Perturbations, DOI:10.1002/essoar.10505890.1. [PDF]

2020

• Liu Q, Collins M, Maher P, Thomson SI, Vallis GK. (2020) SimCloud version 1.0: a simple diagnostic cloud scheme for idealized climate models, DOI:10.5194/gmd-2020-402. [PDF]
• Liu Q, Collins M, Maher P, Thomson SI, Vallis GK. (2020) Supplementary material to "SimCloud version 1.0: a simple diagnostic cloud scheme for idealized climate models", DOI:10.5194/gmd-2020-402-supplement. [PDF]
• Pendergrass A, Watt-Meyer O, Byrne M, Maher P, Webb M, Schiro K, Su H. (2020) ITCZ-MIP: Understanding ITCZ width and its impacts on climate and circulation, DOI:10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-20223. [PDF]
• Maher P, Kelleher ME, Sansom PG, Methven J. (2020) Is the subtropical jet shifting poleward?, Climate Dynamics, volume 54, no. 3-4, pages 1741-1759, DOI:10.1007/s00382-019-05084-6.

2019

• Maher PL, Vallis GK. (2019) Model Hierarchies for Understanding Atmospheric Circulation, Reviews of Geophysics, DOI:10.1029/2018RG000607.

2018

• Maher PL, Vallis G, Sherwood S, Webb M, Sansom P. (2018) The Impact of Parameterized Convection on Climatological Precipitation in Atmospheric Global Climate Models, Geophysical Research Letters, DOI:10.1002/2017GL076826.
• Vallis GK, Colyer G, Geen R, Gerber E, Jucker M, Maher P, Paterson A, Pietschnig M, Penn J, Thomson SI. (2018) Isca, v1.0: a framework for the global modelling of the atmospheres of Earth and other planets at varying levels of complexity, Geoscientific Model Development, volume 11, pages 843-859, DOI:10.5194/gmd-11-843-2018.

2017

• Vallis GK, Colyer G, Geen R, Gerber E, Jucker M, Maher P, Paterson A, Pietschnig M, Penn J, Thomson SI. (2017) Supplementary material to "Isca, v1.0: A Framework for the Global Modelling of the Atmospheres of Earth and Other Planets at Varying Levels of Complexity", DOI:10.5194/gmd-2017-243-supplement. [PDF]

2016

• Maher P, Sherwood SC. (2016) Skill in Simulating Australian Precipitation at the Tropical Edge*, Journal of Climate, volume 29, no. 4, pages 1477-1496, DOI:10.1175/jcli-d-15-0548.1. [PDF]

2014

• Maher PL, Sherwood SC. (2014) Disentangling the Multiple Sources of Large-Scale Variability in Australian Wintertime Precipitation, Journal of Climate, volume 27, no. 17, pages 6377-6392, DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00659.1.
• King AD, Klingaman NP, Alexander LV, Donat MG, Jourdain NC, Maher P. (2014) Extreme Rainfall Variability in Australia: Patterns, Drivers, and Predictability, Journal of Climate, volume 27, no. 15, pages 6035-6050, DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00715.1.

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