Dr Mike Byrne

Dr Mike Byrne

Deputy Head of School

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Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 3996
Email
mpb20@st-andrews.ac.uk

Research areas

The at the University of ϳԹ – led by Mike Byrne – uses theory, models and observations to understand the climate system. Recently we have been working to understand extreme temperatures and the water cycle in a warming climate, how clouds and water vapour couple to tropical circulation, the dynamics of the tropical rainbelt, and why continents and oceans respond differently to climate change.

PhD supervision

  • AndrewChingos
  • KhushiDani
  • JoshDuffield
  • FreyaGibbon
  • LucindaPalmer

Selected publications

  • Open access
    Marino, T., Byrne, M. P. & Herbert, C., 15 Feb 2026, In: Journal of Climate. 39, 4, p. 1119-1136 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • Open access
    Duffield, J. A. M. & Byrne, M. P., 15 Jan 2026, In: Journal of Climate. 39, 2, p. 475-499 25 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • Open access
    Lambert, F. H., Allan, R. P., Behrangi, A., Byrne, M. P., Ceppi, P., Chadwick, R., Durack, P. J., Fosser, G., Fowler, H. J., Greve, P., Lee, T., Mutton, H., O'Gorman, P. A., Osborne, J. M., Pendergrass, A. G., Reager, J. T., Stier, P., Swann, A. L. S., Todd, A. & Vicente-Serrano, S. M. & 1 others, Stephens, G. L., 3 Apr 2025, In: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change. 16, 2, 21 p., e70005.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReview articlepeer-review

  • Open access
    Mackie, A., Byrne, M. P., Van de Koot, E. K. & Williams, A. I. L., 28 Apr 2025, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 52, 8, 10 p., e2024GL112543.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLetterpeer-review

  • Open access
    Marino, T., Byrne, M. P. & Herbert, C., 9 Apr 2025, arXiv, 40 p.

    Research output: Working paperPreprint

  • Blunden, J. (Editor), Reagan, J. (Editor), Dunn, R. J. H. (Editor) & Byrne, M. P., 1 Aug 2025, In: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 106, 8, p. Si-S513 527 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • Open access
    Van de Koot, E. K., Byrne, M. P. & Woollings, T., 15 Jul 2025, In: Journal of Climate. 38, 14, p. 3185-3199 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • Open access
    Chaudhri, A. K., Byrne, M. P. & Scott, R. K., 31 Mar 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. Early View, 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • Open access
    Byrne, M. P., Boos, W. R. & Hu, S., 22 May 2024, In: Weather and Climate Dynamics. 5, 2, p. 763-777 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • Dunn, R. J. H. (Editor), Blannin, J. (Editor), Gobron, N. (Editor), Miller, J. B. (Editor), Willett, K. M. (Editor), Ades, M., Adler, R., Alexe, M., Allan, R. P., Anderson, J., Anneville, O., Aono, Y., Arguez, A., Armenteras Pascual, D., Arosio, C., Asher, E., Augustine, J. A., Azorin-Molina, C., Baez-Villanueva, O. M. & Barichivich, J. & 216 others, Beck, H. E., Bellouin, N., Benedetti, A., Blenkinsop, S., Bock, O., Bodin, X., Bonte, O., Bosilovich, M. G., Boucher, O., Buehler, S. A., Byrne, M. P., Campos, D., Cappucci, F., Carrea, L., Chang, K.-L., Christiansen, H. H., Christy, J. R., Chung, E.-S., Ciasto, L. M., Clingan, S., Coldewey-Egbers, M., Cooper, O. R., Cornes, R. C., Covey, C., Crétaux, J.-F., Crimmins, T., Crotwell, M., Culpepper, J., Cusicanqui, D., Davis, S., de Jeu, R. A. M., Degenstein, D., Delaloye, R., DiGangi, E., Dokulil, M. T., Donat, M. G., Dorigo, W. A., Duchemin, D., Dugan, H., Durre, I., Dutton, G., Duveiller, G., Estilow, T. W., Estrella, N., Fereday, D., Fioletov, V. E., Flemming, J., Foster, M. J., Frederikse, T., Frith, S. M., Froidevaux, L., Füllekrug, M., Garforth, J., Garg, J., Godin-Beekmann, S., Goodman, S., Goto, A., Grimm, A., Gruber, A., Gu, G., Guglielmin, M., Hahn, S., Haimberger, L., Hall, B. D., Harlan, M. E., Harris, I., Hemming, D. L., Hirschi, M., Ho, S.-P., Holzworth, R., Horton, R. M., Hrbáček, F., Hu, G., Hurst, D., Inness, A., Isaksen, K., John, V. O., Jones, P. D., Junod, R., Kääb, A., Kaiser, J. W., Kaufmann, V., Kellerer-Pirklbauer, A., Khaykin, S., Kidd, R., King, T. V., Kipling, Z., Koppa, A., Kraemer, B. M., La Fuente, R. S., Laas, A., Lan, X., Lantz, K. O., Lapierre, J., Lavers, D. A., Leblanc, T., Leibensperger, E., Lennard, C., Liley, B., Liu, Y., Lo, Y. T. E., Loeb, N. G., Loyola, D., Magnin, F., Matsuzaki, S.-I., Matthews, T., Mayer, M., McCarthy, M., McVicar, T. R., Mears, C. A., Menzel, A., Merchant, C. J., Merio, L.-J., Meyer, M. F., Miralles, D. G., Montzka, S. A., Morice, C., Morino, I., Mrekaj, I., Mühle, J., Nance, D., Nicolas, J. P., Noetzli, J., Noll, B., O’Keefe, J., Osborn, T. J., Parrington, M., Pellet, C., Pelto, M. S., Petersen, K., Phillips, C., Pierson, D., Pinto, I., Po-Chedley, S., Pogliotti, P., Polvani, L., Preimesberger, W., Price, C., Randel, W. J., Raymond, C., Rémy, S., Ricciardulli, L., Richardson, A. D., Robinson, D. A., Rodell, M., Rodriguez-Fernandez, N., Rogers, C. D. W., Rohini, P., Rosenlof, K., Rozanov, A., Rozkošný, J., Rusanovskaya, O. O., Rutishauser, T., Sabeerali, C. T., Said, R., Sakai, T., Sánchez-Lugo, A., Sawaengphokhai, P., Schenzinger, V., Schlegel, R. W., Schmid, M., Seneviratne, S. I., Sezaki, F., Shao, X., Sharma, S., Shi, L., Shimaraeva, S. V., Shinohara, R., Silow, E. A., Simmons, A. J., Smith, S. L., Soden, B. J., Sofieva, V., Soldo, L., Sreejith, O. P., Stackhouse Jr., P. W., Stauffer, R., Steinbrecht, W., Steiner, A. K., Stoy, P. C., Stradiotti, P., Streletskiy, D. A., Taha, G., Thackeray, S. J., Thibert, E., Timofeyev, M. A., Tourpali, K., Tronquo, E., Tye, M. R., van der A, R., van der Schalie, R., van der Schrier, G., van Vliet, A. J. H., Verburg, P., Vernier, J.-P., Vimont, I. J., Virts, K., Vivero, S., Vömel, H., Vose, R. S., Wang, R. H. J., Warnock, T., Weber, M., Wiese, D. N., Wild, J. D., Williams, E., Wong, T., Woolway, R. I., Yin, X., Zeng, Z., Zhao, L., Zhong, F., Ziemke, J. R., Ziese, M., Zotta, R. M. & Zou, C.-Z., 1 Aug 2024, In: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 105, 8, p. S12-S155 144 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review