Dr Chris Warner

Currently funded by the Natural Environment Research Council and working with Michael McIntyre.

Research Interests

Gravity waves and Gravity wave parametrization schemes in Global Circulation Models of the atmosphere.

Global Circulation Model climatology, especially as modified by gravity wave parametrizations.

Producing GCM quasi-biennial oscillations using gravity wave parametrizations.

Responsibilities

Project Manager of the European Commision funded IGWOC project

UGAMP project coordinator and principal investigator for the Atmospheric Gravity Wave Modelling an Parametrization project.

Papers

• C.D. Warner, M.E. McIntyre, 1996:  On the propagation and dissipation of gravity-wave spectra through a realistic middle atmosphere.  J. Atmos. Sci ,  53, 3213--3235.
• C.D. Warner, M.E. McIntyre,1997:  Gravity wave spectral models and the shapes of gravity wave spectra at low vertical wavenumbers.  In: Gravity Wave Processes: Their Parameterization in Global Climate Models, ed. Kevin Hamilton; Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, 217--226. NATO ASI Series I 50 (Series I, Global Environmental Change, Vol. 50), ISBN 3-540-62036-2.
• C.D. Warner,  M.E. McIntyre, 1999: Toward an ultra-simple spectral gravity wave parameterization for general circulation models. Earth Planets Space,  51, 475--484.
• C.D. Warner,  M.E. McIntyre, 1999: An ultra-simple spectral gravity wave parameterization for non-orographic gravity waves. J. Atmos. Sci., ??, ???--???. (submitted August 1999).
• A. Scaife, N. Buchart,  C.D. Warner,  J. Austin, D. Stainforth, W, Norton, 1999: Realistic quasi-biennial oscillations in a simulation of the global climate. Nature,  (submitted).

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Invited talks

• 1996: Gravity-wave spectral models and the shapes of gravity-wave spectra at low vertical     wavenumbers. For: NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Gravity Wave Processes and Their Parameterization in Global Climate Models --- Santa Fe, USA April 1-5, 1996
• 1998: Gravity wave spectral propagation: Using ``intermediate'' level models to improve parametrizations in GCMs. For: International Symposium on dynamics and structure of the mesopause region ---  Kyoto, Japan, March 16--20 1998.
• 1999: How simple can simple gravity wave parameterizations afford to be? For: International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics XXII General Assembly, Middle atmosphere dynamics and chemistry symposium, Gravity waves and small scale processes session --- Birmingham, UK, July 18--30, 1999.

Personal

• See the Chris Warner Organisation web pages.