John Prytherch Guest Researcher

Contact

Name and title: John PrytherchGuest Researcher

Workplace: Department of Meteorology Länk till annan webbplats.

Visiting address Svante Arrhenius väg 16 C

Postal address Meteorologiska institutionen (MISU)106 91 Stockholm

Research groups

Baltic Sea Oceanography

The Baltic Sea is one of the best-surveyed and studied seas on Earth. Yet the Baltic Sea circulation and its role in the complex climate system is neither fully quantified nor understood, in spite of important implications for coastal societies of the Baltic Sea region.

Polar Meteorology and Oceanography

The global warming is not uniformly distributed over the Earth. The polar regions are especially sensitive for climate change and the warming in the Arctic is more than twice as fast as for the Earth on average. The effects of this warming are large, with a dramatic loss of sea ice as an example.

About me

I am a research engineer and researcher working on Arctic atmospheric observations and air-sea trace gas exchange. My role is part of the Arctic Climate Across Scales (ACAS) project, funded by the Knut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation, aiming to explore the linkages of physical processes important for the Arctic climate across several spatial and temporal scales.

Formal responsibilities

  • Design, construction and operation of an Arctic meteorological observatory on the icebreaker Oden, comprising semi-autonomous in situ and surface-based remote sensing instrumentation.
  • Publication of quality-controlled observations on open-data archives.

Research interests

  • Air-sea interaction
  • Upper-ocean physics
  • Arctic meteorology

The current focus of my research is the exchange of trace gases (e.g. CO2, methane) between the ocean and the atmosphere at high latitude. In particular, the role of sea ice.




Contact

Name and title: John PrytherchGuest Researcher

Workplace: Department of Meteorology Länk till annan webbplats.

Visiting address Svante Arrhenius väg 16 C

Postal address Meteorologiska institutionen (MISU)106 91 Stockholm

Research groups

Baltic Sea Oceanography

The Baltic Sea is one of the best-surveyed and studied seas on Earth. Yet the Baltic Sea circulation and its role in the complex climate system is neither fully quantified nor understood, in spite of important implications for coastal societies of the Baltic Sea region.

Polar Meteorology and Oceanography

The global warming is not uniformly distributed over the Earth. The polar regions are especially sensitive for climate change and the warming in the Arctic is more than twice as fast as for the Earth on average. The effects of this warming are large, with a dramatic loss of sea ice as an example.