Overview
My research focuses on the large-scale atmospheric dynamics of planetary atmospheres, including Earth. I've worked on a variety of topics, including the interaction of moist convection and jet streams on Jupiter, polar vortices on Mars, and atmospheric teleconnections on Earth. I'm also a principal developer of the Isca climate modelling framework.
Background- PhD, University of Cambridge, 2011-2015. Supervised by Prof. Michael McIntyre.
- MPhys, University of Oxford, 2007-2011. Masters project supervised by Luca Montabone and Prof. Peter Read.
You can find me on Twitter, ResearchGate, and GitHub. I also have a website with more information about me and my group.
Publications
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2024
- Lewis NT, England MR, Screen JA, Geen R, Mudhar R, Seviour WJM, Thomson SI. (2024) Assessing the Spurious Impacts of Ice-Constraining Methods on the Climate Response to Sea-Ice Loss using an Idealised Aquaplanet GCM. [PDF]
2023
- Geen R, Thomson SI, Screen JA, Blackport R, Lewis NT, Mudhar R, Seviour WJM, Vallis GK. (2023) An Explanation for the Metric Dependence of the Midlatitude Jet‐Waviness Change in Response to Polar Warming, Geophysical Research Letters, volume 50, no. 21, DOI:10.1029/2023gl105132. [PDF]
- Carruthers A, Thomson S, Seviour W. (2023) The Role of Vortex Shielding on Polar Crystal Formation & Vortex Dynamics on Jupiter, DOI:10.5194/egusphere-egu23-14801. [PDF]
- Mudhar R, Geen R, Lewis N, Screen J, Seviour W, Thomson S. (2023) Understanding the Stratospheric Response to Arctic Amplification, DOI:10.5194/egusphere-egu23-5682. [PDF]
- Lewis N, Geen R, Mudhar R, Seviour W, Thomson S, Vallis G, Screen J. (2023) Investigating Uncertainty in the Mid-latitude Response to Sea-Ice Loss with Idealised General Circulation Model Experiments, DOI:10.5194/egusphere-egu23-10037. [PDF]
- Geen R, Thomson S, Screen J, Vallis G. (2023) Perceived midlatitude jet waviness response to polar warming is sensitive to warming structure and metric choice, DOI:10.5194/egusphere-egu23-2569. [PDF]
2022
- Screen JA, Eade R, Smith DM, Thomson S, Yu H. (2022) Net Equatorward Shift of the Jet Streams When the Contribution From Sea‐Ice Loss Is Constrained by Observed Eddy Feedback, Geophysical Research Letters, volume 49, no. 23, DOI:10.1029/2022gl100523. [PDF]
- Screen JA, Eade R, Smith DM, Thomson SI, Yu H. (2022) Observationally constrained equatorward shift of the jet streams in response to ocean warming and sea-ice loss combined, DOI:10.1002/essoar.10511992.1. [PDF]
- McKinney MM, Mitchell J, Thomson SI. (2022) Effects of Varying Land Coverage, Rotation Period, and Water Vapor on Equatorial Climates that Bridge the Gap between Earth-like and Titan-like, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, volume 79, no. 11, pages 2813-2830, DOI:10.1175/jas-d-21-0295.1. [PDF]
- McKinney M, Mitchell J, Thomson SI. (2022) Effects of Varying Land Coverage, Rotation Period, and Water Vapor on Equatorial Climates that Bridge the Gap between Earth-like and Titan-like. [PDF]
- Williams D, Vallis G, Thomson S, Seviour W. (2022) Developing an Idealised Climate Model of Titan, DOI:10.5194/egusphere-egu22-9643. [PDF]
- Mitchell DM, Stone EJ, Andrews OD, Bamber JL, Bingham RJ, Browse J, Henry M, MacLeod DM, Morten JM, Sauter CA. (2022) The Bristol
CMIP6 Data Hackathon, Weather, volume 77, no. 6, pages 218-221, DOI:10.1002/wea.4161. [PDF]
2021
- Mitchell DM, Scott RK, Seviour WJM, Thomson S, Waugh DW, Teanby NA, Ball ER. (2021) Polar vortices in planetary atmospheres, DOI:10.1002/essoar.10508571.1.
- Mitchell DM, Scott RK, Seviour WJM, Thomson SI, Waugh DW, Teanby NA, Ball ER. (2021) Polar Vortices in Planetary Atmospheres, Reviews of Geophysics, volume 59, no. 4, DOI:10.1029/2020rg000723. [PDF]
- Ball ER, Mitchell DM, Seviour WJM, Thomson SI, Vallis GK. (2021) The roles of latent heating and dust in the structure and variability of the northern Martian polar vortex, DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2104.00503.
- 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]
- Ball ER, Mitchell DM, Seviour WJM, Thomson SI, Vallis GK. (2021) The roles of latent heating and dust in the structure and variability of the northern Martian polar vortex, 2021, Volume 2, Pages 203. [PDF]
- Ball E, Mitchell D, Seviour W, Vallis G, Thomson S. (2021) Drivers of Mars' northern winter polar vortex, DOI:10.5194/egusphere-egu21-7617. [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]
- Osborne JM, Collins M, Screen JA, Thomson SI, Dunstone N. (2020) The North Atlantic as a driver of summer atmospheric circulation, Journal of Climate, volume 33, no. 17, pages 7335-7351, DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0423.1.
- Ball E, Mitchell D, Seviour W, Vallis G, Thomson S. (2020) Mars' Annular Polar Vortex, DOI:10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-10361. [PDF]
- Thomson SI. (2020) The influence of deep jets on Jupiter's weather layer in a 1.5‐layer shallow‐water model, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, volume 146, no. 729, pages 1608-1625, DOI:10.1002/qj.3755. [PDF]
2019
- Thomson SI, Vallis GK. (2019) The Effects of Gravity on the Climate and Circulation of a Terrestrial Planet, DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1901.11426.
- Thomson SI, Vallis GK. (2019) Hierarchical Modeling of Solar System Planets with Isca, Atmosphere, volume 10, no. 12, pages 803-803, DOI:10.3390/atmos10120803. [PDF]
- Osborne JM, Collins M, Screen JA, Thomson SI, Dunstone N. (2019) The North Atlantic as a driver of summer atmospheric circulation (dataset).
- Thomson SI, Vallis GK. (2019) The effects of gravity on the climate and circulation of a terrestrial planet, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, volume 145, no. 723, pages 2627-2640, DOI:10.1002/qj.3582.
2018
- Thomson SI, Vallis GK. (2018) Atmospheric Response to SST Anomalies. Part II: Background-State Dependence, Teleconnections, and Local Effects in Summer, JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES, volume 75, no. 12, pages 4125-4138, DOI:10.1175/JAS-D-17-0298.1. [PDF]
- Thomson SI, Vallis GK. (2018) Atmospheric Response to SST Anomalies. Part I: Background-State Dependence, Teleconnections, and Local Effects in Winter, JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES, volume 75, no. 12, pages 4107-4124, DOI:10.1175/JAS-D-17-0297.1. [PDF]
- 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]
- Vallis GK, Colyer G, Geen R, Gerber E, Jucker M, Maher P, Paterson A, Pietschnig M, Penn J, Thomson SI. (2017) 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. [PDF]
2016
- Thomson SI, McIntyre ME. (2016) Jupiter's Unearthly Jets: A New Turbulent Model Exhibiting Statistical Steadiness without Large-Scale Dissipation*, JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES, volume 73, no. 3, pages 1119-1141, DOI:10.1175/JAS-D-14-0370.1. [PDF]
2014
- Thomson SI, McIntyre ME. (2014) Jupiter's unearthly jets: a new turbulent model exhibiting statistical steadiness without large-scale dissipation, DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1412.4684.
- Mitchell DM, Montabone L, Thomson S, Read PL. (2014) Polar vortices on Earth and Mars: A comparative study of the climatology and variability from reanalyses, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, volume 141, no. 687, pages 550-562, DOI:10.1002/qj.2376. [PDF]
