My research interests lie in Earth System Modeling and in the use of these models to understand and predict climate variability and change at spatial scales ranging from the planetary to the regional and on timescales from seasonal to multi-decadal.  I seed to determine robust responses to climate change and their implications through a deeper understanding of the processes and mechanisms involved and to understand the origins of both natural and forced variability in the historical record.  I am also interested in the biases that occur in Earth System Models and how they may be alleviated and what the implications of these biases are for our ability to predict the future of the climate system.  To date, I have focussed on the dynamics of the tropospheric mid-latitude circulation, regional hydroclimate, the coupled stratosphere-troposphere system, land-atmosphere coupling, historical trends in the observational record and their representation in models, the use of emergent constraints to constrain long-term climate projections, and sub-seasonal to decadal prediction.

Course notes from Advanced Atmospheric Dynamics course at the University of Toronto (2011)