Member Since 1990
Ben D. Santer
Adjunct Scientist in Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Professional Experience
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Adjunct Scientist in Physical Oceanography
2022 - Present
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Adjunct Professor
2023 - 2023
UCLA - JIFRESSE
Visiting Researcher
2021 - 2022
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Education
University of East Anglia
Other
2019
University of East Anglia
Doctorate
1987
Honors & Awards
Bert Bolin Global Environmental Change Award and Lecture
Received 2020
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Outstanding Reviewer Award - Geophysical Research Letters
Received 2016
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Union Fellow
Received 2011
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Publications
Climatology Explains Intermodel Spread in Tropical Upper Tropospheric Cloud and Relative Humidity Re...

The response of upper tropospheric clouds and relative humidity (RH) to warming is important to the overall sensitivity of the Earth to increasing ...

November 28, 2019
AGU Abstracts
Externally Forced and Internally Generated Changes in Extreme Rainfall Events
DETECTION AND ATTRIBUTION OF ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGE AND EXTREME WEATHER AND CLIMATE EVENTS II ORAL
global environmental change | 14 december 2023
Celine Bonfils, Stephen Po-Chedley, Margot Bador, ...
Model projections of the future climate revealed that climate change is expected to alter the large-scale pattern in mean precipitation, the seasonal ...
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Exceptional Stratospheric Contribution to Human Fingerprints on Atmospheric Temperature
DETECTION AND ATTRIBUTION OF ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGE AND EXTREME WEATHER AND CLIMATE EVENTS II ORAL
global environmental change | 14 december 2023
Benjamin D. Santer, Stephen Po-Chedley, Lilong Zha...
In 1967, scientists used a simple climate model to predict that human-caused increases in atmospheric CO2 should warm Earth's troposphere and cool the...
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Substantial contribution of internal variability to satellite-era tropospheric warming inferred from CMIP6 large ensembles
LARGE ENSEMBLE CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS AS TOOLS FOR EXPLORING NATURAL VARIABILITY, CHANGE SIGNALS, AND IMPACTS III ORAL
atmospheric sciences | 16 december 2022
Stephen Po-Chedley, John Fasullo, Nicholas Siler, ...
Observations of surface and tropospheric temperature change since the late-1970s exhibit less warming than the average warming in coupled climate mode...
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Volunteer Experience
2021 - 2022
Member
Global Environmental Change Awards Committee
2021 - 2021
Member
Global Environmental Change Bert Bolin Award Committee
2017 - 2017
Member
Macelwane Medal Committee
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