Mark A. Ringer

Mark A. Ringer is a climate scientist at the Met Office Hadley Centre in Exeter, United Kingdom, where he leads the Climate Sensitivity and Feedbacks group. His research focuses on understanding climate feedbacks, radiative forcing mechanisms, cloud radiative processes, and climate model evaluation through simplified experiments like CMIP5 simulations.

• Key Research Themes:
  • Climate sensitivity and uncertainty analysis
  • Cloud feedbacks and radiative adjustments
  • Atmosphere-only vs. coupled model comparisons
• Publications:
  • 2014 paper in Geophysical Research Letters analyzing idealized climate experiments
  • 2012 paper in Climate Dynamics evaluating cloud regime seasonality in models

His work demonstrates that simplified climate models (e.g., aquaplanet simulations) effectively capture global cloud feedback patterns, though they lack sea ice feedback representation. He collaborates with researchers from institutions like the University of Reading and Met Office colleagues.