Prof Ray Bates
Adjunct Professor
Email: Ray · Bates © ucd · ie
Telephone: +353 1 716 2421
Fax: +353 1 716 1172
Room: SERC - North 104a
Brief Academic CV
B.Sc. (UCD), PhD (MIT).
Adjunct Professor of Meteorology, UCD, 2004-
Prof. of Meteorology, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, 1995-2004.
Senior Scientist and Branch Head, Lab. For Atmospheres, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, 1987-1995.
Member of Royal Irish Academy.
Member of Academia Europaea.
Professional Associations:
Chairman of the Climate Change Sciences Committee of the Royal Irish Academy, 2009-
President of the Irish Meteorological Society, 2004-2008
President of the Atmospheric Sciences Division, European Geosciences Union, 2002-2003
Fellow of the American Meteorological Society
Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society
Awards
Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal 2009
Research Profile
Prof. Bates' research interests are in the theory and numerical modeling of the global climate. He is particularly interested in climate feedbacks- the mechanisms that keep the global climate stable at its current equilibrium and that determine its sensitivity to external forcing such as that due to CO2 increase. He is also involved in studying the mechanisms that determine the polar amplification of the surface warming in an enhanced greenhouse world. He and his collaborators have been studying these questions using general circulation models and simple conceptual models of the climate system.
Recent Publications
Some considerations of the concept of climate feedback, J.R. Bates, Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 133, 545-560 (2007).
On Climate Stability, Climate Sensitivity and the Dynamics of the Enhanced Greenhouse Effect. J.R. Bates. Proc. Milutin Milankovitch Anniversary Symposium, Serbian Academy of Sciences (2005). (Also available at www.dclimate.gfy.ku.dk).
Polar Amplification of Surface Warming on an aquaplanet in "ghost forcing" Experiments Without Sea Ice Feedbacks. V. A. Alexeev, P. L.
Langen and J. R. Bates. Climate Dynamics, 24, 655-666 (2005).
A Dynamical Stabilizer in the Climate System: a Mechanism Suggested by a Simple Model and Supported by GCM Experiments and an Observational Data Study. J.R. Bates & V. A. Alexeev. Proc. IUTAM Symposium Advances in Mathematical Modelling of Atmosphere and Ocean Dynamics, 93-98. Kluwer (2001).
A Proposed Adiabatic Formulation of 3D Global Atmospheric Models Based on Potential Vorticity. Y. Li, J. Ruge, J. R. Bates & A. Brandt. Tellus, 52A, 129-139 (2000).
