Dr Dann Mitchell
MPhys(Leic.), PhD(R'dg)
Current positions
Met Office Joint Chair in Climate Hazards
School of Geographical Sciences
Contact
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Research interests
My research focus is concerned with global and regional climate change on scales of 100 years in the past, to 100 years in the future. Specifically, I research how climate change alters the atmospheric circulation, extreme events, and impacts on human health. I look at attribution of past climate trends and extreme events, and projected changes under future greenhouse gas emission scenarios. My particular focus at the moment is on how low emission scenarios, consistent with the aims of the Paris Agreement on climate change, may impact society through changes in health (heat waves, cold snaps).
Focused research topics include:
- Stratospheric dynamics (mainly the polar vortex)
- Mid-latitude dynamics and the relationship to extreme weather.
- Temperature related health issues.
- Attribution of past climate, and projections of future climate.
- Extreme value statistics.
- Planetary atmospheres in the solar system.
Positions
University of Bristol positions
Met Office Joint Chair in Climate Hazards
School of Geographical Sciences
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
ArctiCONNECT Consequences of Arctic Warming for European Climate and Extreme Weather
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
02/11/2020 to 01/11/2023
PEGASUS
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
01/07/2019 to 30/06/2022
How tough is WASH? Developing indicators to measure the resilience of WASH to climate change in LMICs
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Principal Investigator
Description
We will develop and test indicators that will measure whether drinking water supplies and sanitation in rural areas and small towns in Nepal and Ethiopia are resilient to the future…Managing organisational unit
Department of Civil EngineeringDates
01/10/2019 to 31/07/2021
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
10/02/2021Persistent model biases in the CMIP6 representation of stratospheric polar vortex variability
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
Future changes in the frequency of temperature extremes may be underestimated in tropical and subtropical regions
Potential Vorticity Structure in Titan's Polar Vortices from Cassini CIRS Observations
Icarus
Concerns over calculating injury-related deaths associated with temperature
Nature Medicine
Effects of 1.5°C and 2°C of warming on regional reference evapotranspiration and drying
International Journal of Climatology