Steven Hardiman


Postdoc
Atmospheric Physics Group
Department of Physics
University of Toronto

Steven Hardiman is now at the UK Met Office, Exeter, UK. The list of publications on this page is kept up to date.


Research

My main interest is stratospheric dynamics and climate. I have worked on the downward influence of dynamical signals in the stratosphere, the effect of ENSO on the Brewer Dobson circulation, internal and external variability of the stratosphere, and the effect of Eurasian land surface forcing on winter climate in high and low top GCMs.

May 2008 - : Stratospheric research scientist at the UK Met Office, Exeter, UK. Working with Dr Fiona O'Connor and Dr Neal Butchart.

Jan 2007 - April 2008: Postdoc in Atmospheric Physics, University of Toronto, Canada. Supervisor Prof Paul Kushner.

Sept 2003 - Dec 2006: PhD, "Stratosphere-Troposphere Dynamical Coupling", DAMTP, University of Cambridge, UK and UK Met Office, Exeter, UK. Supervisors Prof Peter Haynes and Dr Neal Butchart.


Research related links

Stratospheric Processes And their Role in Climate

The Royal Meterological Society


Selected papers

Hardiman, S. C., N. Butchart, and N. Calvo (2013), The morphology of the Brewer-Dobson circulation and its response to climate change in CMIP5 simulations, Q.J.R. Meteorol. Soc.. doi: 10.1002/qj.2258

Bushell, A. C., and S. C. Hardiman (2013), Middle Atmosphere Focus workshop: stretching the scientific capabilities of a middle atmosphere resolving General Circulation Model, Atmosph. Sci. Lett., 14: 54–57. doi:10.1002/asl2.413 [Not Peer Reviewed]

Osprey, Scott M., Lesley J. Gray, Steven C. Hardiman, Neal Butchart, and Tim J. Hinton (2013), Stratospheric variability in Twentieth-Century CMIP5 simulations of the Met Office climate model: High-top versus low-top, J. Climate, 26, 1595–1606. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00147.1

Hardiman, Steven C., Neal Butchart, Tim J. Hinton, Scott M. Osprey, and Lesley J. Gray (2012), The Effect of a Well-Resolved Stratosphere on Surface Climate: Differences between CMIP5 Simulations with High and Low Top Versions of the Met Office Climate Model, J. Climate, 25, 7083–7099. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00579.1

Seviour, W. J. M., N. Butchart, and S. C. Hardiman (2012), The Brewer–Dobson circulation inferred from ERA-Interim, Q.J.R. Meteorol. Soc., 138: 878–888. doi:10.1002/qj.966

Hardiman, Steven C., Neal Butchart, Andrew J. Charlton-Perez, Tiffany A. Shaw, Hideharu Akiyoshi, Andreas Baumgaertner, Slimane Bekki, Peter Braesicke, Martyn Chipperfield, Martin Dameris, Rolando R. Garcia, Martine Michou, Steven Pawson, Eugene Rozanov, and Kiyotaka Shibata (2011), Improved predictability of the troposphere using stratospheric final warmings, J. Geophys. Res., 116, D18113, 11 PP., doi:10.1029/2011JD015914

The HadGEM2 Development Team: Martin, G. M., N. Bellouin, W. J. Collins, I. D. Culverwell, P. R. Halloran, S. C. Hardiman, T. J. Hinton, C. D. Jones, R. E. McDonald, A. J. McLaren, F. M. O'Connor, M. J. Roberts, J. M. Rodriguez, S. Woodward, et al. (2011), The HadGEM2 family of Met Office Unified Model Climate Configurations, Geosci. Model Dev., 4, 723-757, doi:10.5194/gmd-4-723-2011

Jones, C. D., J. K. Hughes, N. Bellouin, S. C. Hardiman, G. Jones, J. Knight, S. Liddicoat, F. M. O'Connor, et al. (2011), The HadGEM2-ES Implementation of CMIP5 Centennial Simulations, Geosci. Model Dev., 4, 543-570, doi:10.5194/gmd-4-543-2011

Butchart, N., A. J. Charlton-Perez, I. Cionni, S. C. Hardiman, P. H. Haynes, K. Kruger, P. J. Kushner, P. A. Newman, S. M. Osprey, J. Perlwitz, M. Sigmond, L. Wang, et al. (2011), Multimodel climate and variability of the stratosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 116, D05102, 21 PP., doi:10.1029/2010JD014995

Osprey, Scott M., Lesley J. Gray, Steven C. Hardiman, Neal Butchart, Andrew C. Bushell, and Tim J. Hinton (2010), The Climatology of the Middle Atmosphere in a Vertically Extended Version of the Met Office's Climate Model. Part II: Variability, J. Atmos. Sci., 67(11), 3637-3651, doi:10.1175/2010JAS3338.1

Bushell, A. C., D. R. Jackson, N. Butchart, S. C. Hardiman, T. J. Hinton, S. M. Osprey, and L. J. Gray (2010), Sensitivity of GCM tropical middle atmosphere variability and climate to ozone and parameterized gravity wave changes, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D15101, doi:10.1029/2009JD013340

Hardiman, Steven C., David G. Andrews, Andy A. White, Neal Butchart, and Ian Edmond (2010), Using different formulations of the Transformed Eulerian Mean equations and EliassenPalm diagnostics in General Circulation Models, J. Atmos. Sci., 67(6), 1983-1995, doi:10.1175/2010JAS3355.1

Hardiman, S. C., N. Butchart, S. M. Osprey, L. J. Gray, A. C. Bushell, and T. J. Hinton (2010), The Climatology of the Middle Atmosphere in a Vertically Extended Version of the Met Office's Climate Model. Part I: Mean State, J. Atmos.Sci., 67(5), 1509-1525, doi:10.1175/2009JAS3337.1

Fletcher, C. G., S. C. Hardiman, P. J. Kushner, and J. Cohen (2009), The dynamical response to snow cover perturbations in a large ensemble of atmospheric GCM integrations, J. Climate, 22(5), 1208-1222, doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2505.1

Hardiman, S. C., and P. H. Haynes (2008), Dynamical sensitivity of the stratospheric circulation and downward influence of upper level perturbations, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D23103, doi:10.1029/2008JD010168

Hardiman, S. C., P. J. Kushner, and J. Cohen (2008), Investigating the ability of general circulation models to capture the effects of Eurasian snow cover on winter climate, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D21123, doi:10.1029/2008JD010623

Hardiman, S. C., N. Butchart, P. H. Haynes, and S. H. E. Hare (2007), A note on forced versus internal variability of the stratosphere, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L12803, doi:10.1029/2007GL029726

Other papers

Chp5 of: SPARC Lifetimes (2013), Lifetimes of Stratospheric Ozone-Depleting Substances, Their Replacements, and Related Species, M.K.W. Ko, P.A. Newman, S. Reimann, and S.E. Strahan(Eds.), SPARC Report No. 6, WCRP-15/2013. SPARC homepage

Charlton-Perez, A. J., et al. (2013), On the lack of stratospheric dynamical variability in low-top versions of the CMIP5 models, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50125

Anstey, J. A., et al. (2013), Multi-model analysis of Northern Hemisphere winter blocking: Model biases and the role of resolution, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50231.

Mitchell, D. M., et al. (2013), The Impact of Stratospheric Resolution on the Detectability of Climate Change Signals in the Free Atmosphere, Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, doi:10.1002/grl.50177

Morgenstern, O., et al. (2013), Impacts of climate change, ozone recovery, and increasing methane on surface ozone and the tropospheric oxidizing capacity, J. Geophys. Res., Atmos., 118, 1028–1041, doi:10.1029/2012JD018382

Mitchell, D. M., et al. (2012), The Effect of Climate Change on the Variability of the Northern Hemisphere Stratospheric Polar Vortex, J. Atmos. Sci., 69, 2608–2618, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-12-021.1

Mitchell, D. M., et al. (2012), The nature of Arctic polar vortices in chemistry–climate models, Q.J.R. Meteorol. Soc., 138: 1681–1691. doi: 10.1002/qj.1909

Strahan, S. E., et al. (2011), Using transport diagnostics to understand Chemistry Climate Model ozone simulations, J. Geophys. Res., 116, D17302, doi:10.1029/2010JD015360

Scaife, A. A., et al. (2011), Climate change projections and stratosphere--troposphere interaction, Clim. Dyn. 36, doi:10.1007/s00382-011-1080-7

Oman, L. D., et al. (2010), Multimodel assessment of the factors driving stratospheric ozone evolution over the 21st century, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D24306, doi:10.1029/2010JD014362

Ray, E. A., et al. (2010), Evidence for changes in stratospheric transport and mixing over the past three decades based on multiple data sets and tropical leaky pipe analysis, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D21304, doi:10.1029/2010JD014206

Austin, J., et al. (2010), Chemistry-climate model simulations of spring Antarctic ozone, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D00M11, doi:10.1029/2009JD013577

Austin, J., et al. (2010), Decline and recovery of total column ozone using a multimodel time series analysis, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D00M10, doi:10.1029/2010JD013857

Gettelman, A., et al. (2010), Multimodel assessment of the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere: Tropics and global trends, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D00M08, doi:10.1029/2009JD013638

Hegglin, M. I., et al. (2010), Multimodel assessment of the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere: Extratropics, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D00M09, doi:10.1029/2010JD013884

Son, S.-W., et al. (2010), Impact of stratospheric ozone on Southern Hemisphere circulation change: A multimodel assessment, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D00M07, doi:10.1029/2010JD014271

Eyring, V., et al. (2010), Multi-model assessment of stratospheric ozone return dates and ozone recovery in CCMVal-2 models, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 9451-9472, doi:10.5194/acp-10-9451-2010

SPARC CCMVal (2010), SPARC Report on the Evaluation of Chemistry-Climate Models, V. Eyring, T. G. Shepherd, D. W. Waugh (Eds.), SPARC Report No. 5, WCRP-132, WMO/TD-No. 1526, http://www.atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca/SPARC.

Gerber, E. P., et al. (2010), Stratosphere-troposphere coupling and annular mode variability in chemistry-climate models, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D00M06, doi:10.1029/2009JD013770

Morgenstern, O., et al. (2010), Anthropogenic forcing of the Northern Annular Mode in CCMVal-2 models, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D00M03, doi:10.1029/2009JD013347

Morgenstern, O., et al. (2010), Review of the formulation of present-generation stratospheric chemistry-climate models and associated external forcings, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D00M02, doi:10.1029/2009JD013728

Thesis

PhD Thesis (2006)

Personal

The Methodist Church
Weston Silver Band
Atmospheric Physics Group, Department of Physics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George St., Toronto, Canada, M5S 1A7

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