Dr. Alex Baker
Senior Research Scientist (NCAS)
Responsibilities:
- Senior Research Scientist in the High Resolution Climate Modelling research group
- Project Manager, Huracan
- Co-organise the Department's Seminar Series
- Co-organise the biennial NCAS Climate Modelling Summer School
Research Interests:
- Tropical, post-tropical and midlatitude cyclones
- Global km-scale climate model evaluation
- Cyclone air-sea interactions
- Atmospheric circulation and jet streams
- North Atlantic climate variability and extremes
- Stable water isotopes and palaeoclimate
Research Projects:
- nextGEMS Next-Generation Earth Modelling Systems
- Huracan Hurricane Risk Amplification and Changing North Atlantic Natural Disasters
- REPRESA REsilience and PReparedness to tropical cyclones across Southern Africa
- Collaborate with the insurance and hydrocarbon industries on tropical cyclone risk and member of the Royal Meteorological Society's Insurance Special Interest Group
- ACSIS The North Atlantic Climate System Integrated Study
- PRIMAVERA PRocess-based climate sIMulation: AdVances in high-resolution modelling and European climate Risk Assessment
Supervision:
- Leo Saffin, PDRA, Huracan project 2024-2027, Dynamics of tropical cyclones as they transition to the extratropics and their interaction with the midlatitude flow
- Lewis Grant, Ph.D. 2025-2028, Unleashing the potential of high-resolution sub-seasonal tropical cyclone predictions
- Elliott Sainsbury, Ph.D. 2019-2022, The role of post-tropical cyclones for European extreme weather
My research online:
Centaur Publications
2025
Segura, H., Pedruzo-Bagazgoitia, X., Weiss, P., Müller, S. K., Rackow, T., Lee, J., Dolores-Tesillos, E., Benedict, I., Aengenheyster, M., Aguridan, R., Arduini, G., Baker, A. J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2697-1350, Bao, J., Bastin, S., Baulenas, E., Becker, T., Beyer, S., Bockelmann, H., Brüggemann, N., Brunner, L., Cheedela, S. K., Das, S., Denissen, J., Dragaud, I., Dziekan, P., Ekblom, M., Engels, J. F., Esch, M., Forbes, R., Frauen, C., Freischem, L., Garc\'ıa-Marot, D., Geier, P., Gierz, P., González-Cervera, Á., Grayson, K., Griffith, M., Gutjahr, O., Haak, H., Hadade, I., Haslehner, K., ul Hasson, S., Hegewald, J., Kluft, L., Koldunov, A., Koldunov, N., Kölling, T., Koseki, S., Kosukhin, S., Kousal, J., Kuma, P., Kumar, A. U., Li, R., Maury, N., Meindl, M., Milinski, S., Mogensen, K., Niraula, B., Nowak, J., Praturi, D. S., Proske, U., Putrasahan, D., Redler, R., Santuy, D., Sármány, D., Schnur, R., Scholz, P., Sidorenko, D., Spät, D., Sützl, B., Takasuka, D., Tompkins, A., Uribe, A., Valentini, M., Veerman, M., Voigt, A., Warnau, S., Wachsmann, F., Wacławczyk, M., Wedi, N., Wieners, K.-H., Wille, J., Winkler, M., Wu, Y., Ziemen, F., Zimmermann, J., Bender, F. A.-M., Bojovic, D., Bony, S., Bordoni, S., Brehmer, P., Dengler, M., Dutra, E., Faye, S., Fischer, E., van Heerwaarden, C., Hohenegger, C., Järvinen, H., Jochum, M., Jung, T., Jungclaus, J. H., Keenlyside, N. S., Klocke, D., Konow, H., Klose, M., Malinowski, S., Martius, O., Mauritsen, T., Mellado, J. P., Mieslinger, T., Mohino, E., Pawłowska, H., Peters-von Gehlen, K., Sarré, A., Sobhani, P., Stier, P., Tuppi, L., Vidale, P. L.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1800-8460, Sandu, I. and Stevens, B.
(2025)
nextGEMS: entering the era of kilometer-scale Earth system modeling.
Geoscientific Model Development, 18 (20).
pp. 7735-7761.
ISSN 1991-9603
doi: 10.5194/gmd-18-7735-2025
Wang, Z., Rios-Berrios, R., Stern, D. P., Baker, A. J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2697-1350, Beucler, T., Camargo, S. J., Duvel, J.-P., Feng, X.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X, Lee, C.-Y., Leroux, M.-D., Li, H., Macholl, J., Molina, M. J., Ocasio, K. M. N., Ramsay, H. A., Ritchie, E. A., Schenkel, B. A., Stansfield, A. M., Ayar, P. V. and Wisinski, E.
(2025)
On the definition and tracking of tropical cyclone seeds from a climate perspective.
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 106 (9).
E1815-E1822.
ISSN 1520-0477
doi: 10.1175/bams-d-24-0200.1
Lockwood, J., Athanasiadis, P., Baker, A.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2697-1350, Hodges, K.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0894-229X, Priestley, M., Roberts, M., Scaife, A., Vidale, P. L.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1800-8460 and Zappa, G.
(2025)
The effect of increasing model resolution on the Northern Hemisphere winter mid-latitude storm track: an equatorward shift due to contraction of the Hadley cell.
Journal of Climate, 38 (17).
pp. 4539-4551.
ISSN 1520-0442
doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-24-0414.1
2024
Baker, A. J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2697-1350, Vannière, B.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8600-400X and Vidale, P. L.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1800-8460
(2024)
On the realism of tropical cyclone intensification in global storm-resolving climate models.
Geophysical Research Letters, 51 (17).
e2024GL109841.
ISSN 0094-8276
doi: 10.1029/2024GL109841
2023
Huang, H.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6153-6357, Collins, W. D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-9848, Patricola, C. M.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3387-0307, Ruprich‐Robert, Y.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4008-2026, Ullrich, P. A.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4118-4590 and Baker, A. J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2697-1350
(2023)
Contrasting responses of Atlantic and Pacific tropical cyclone activity to Atlantic Multidecadal Variability.
Geophysical Research Letters, 50 (10).
e2023GL102959.
ISSN 1944-8007
doi: 10.1029/2023gl102959
2022
Sainsbury, E. M.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5626-5583, Schiemann, R. K. H.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3095-9856, Hodges, K. I.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0894-229X, Baker, A. J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2697-1350, Shaffrey, L. C.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2696-752X, Bhatia, K. T. and Bourdin, S.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2635-5654
(2022)
Can low-resolution CMIP6 ScenarioMIP models provide insight into future European post-tropical-cyclone risk?
Weather and Climate Dynamics, 3 (4).
pp. 1359-1379.
ISSN 2698-4016
doi: 10.5194/wcd-3-1359-2022
Athanasiadis, P. J., Ogawa, F., Omrani, N.-E., Keenlyside, N., Schiemann, R.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3095-9856, Baker, A. J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2697-1350, Vidale, P. L.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1800-8460, Bellucci, A., Ruggieri, P., Haarsma, R., Roberts, M., Roberts, C., Novak, L. and Gualdi, S.
(2022)
Mitigating climate biases in the mid-latitude North Atlantic by increasing model resolution: SST gradients and their relation to blocking and the jet.
Journal of Climate, 35 (21).
pp. 3379-3400.
ISSN 1520-0442
doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0515.1
Sainsbury, E. M., Schiemann, R. K. H.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3095-9856, Hodges, K. I.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0894-229X, Baker, A. J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2697-1350, Shaffrey, L. C.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2696-752X and Bhatia, K. T.
(2022)
Why do some post-tropical cyclones impact europe?
Monthly Weather Review, 150 (10).
pp. 2553-2571.
ISSN 1520-0493
doi: 10.1175/MWR-D-22-0111.1
Baker, A. J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2697-1350, Roberts, M. J., Vidale, P. L.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1800-8460, Hodges, K. I.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0894-229X, Seddon, J., Vanniere, B.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8600-400X, Haarsma, R. J., Schiemann, R.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3095-9856, Kapetanakis, D., Tourigny, E., Lohmann, K., Roberts, C. D. and Terray, L.
(2022)
Extratropical transition of tropical cyclones in a multiresolution ensemble of atmosphere-only and fully coupled global climate models.
Journal of Climate, 35 (16).
pp. 5283-5306.
ISSN 1520-0442
doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0801.1
Baker, A. J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2697-1350
(2022)
Tropical cyclones: global decline in frequency.
Nature Climate Change, 12.
pp. 615-617.
ISSN 1758-6798
doi: 10.1038/s41558-022-01414-5
Sainsbury, E. M., Schiemann, R. K. H.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3095-9856, Hodges, K. I.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0894-229X, Baker, A. J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2697-1350, Shaffrey, L. C.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2696-752X and Bhatia, K. T.
(2022)
What governs the interannual variability of recurving North Atlantic tropical cyclones?
Journal of Climate, 35 (12).
pp. 3627-3641.
ISSN 1520-0442
doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0712.1
2021
Baker, A. J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2697-1350, Hodges, K. I.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0894-229X, Schiemann, R. K. H.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3095-9856 and Vidale, P. L.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1800-8460
(2021)
Historical variability and lifecycles of North Atlantic midlatitude cyclones originating in the tropics.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 126 (9).
e2020JD033924.
ISSN 2169-8996
doi: 10.1029/2020JD033924
Baldini, J. U.L., Lechleitner, F. A., Breitenbach, S. F.M., van Hunen, J., Baldini, L. M., Wynn, P. M., Jamieson, R. A., Ridley, H. E., Baker, A. H.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2697-1350, Walczak, I. W. and Fohlmeister, J.
(2021)
Detecting and quantifying palaeoseasonality in stalagmites using geochemical and modelling approaches.
Quaternary Science Reviews, 254.
106784.
ISSN 0277-3791
doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106784
2020
Sainsbury, E. M., Schiemann, R. K. H.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3095-9856, Hodges, K. I.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0894-229X, Shaffrey, L. C.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2696-752X, Baker, A. J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2697-1350 and Bhatia, K. T.
(2020)
How important are post-tropical cyclones for European windstorm risk?
Geophysical Research Letters, 47 (18).
e2020GL089853.
ISSN 0094-8276
doi: 10.1029/2020GL089853
Bador, M., Boé, J., Terray, L., Alexander, L. V., Baker, A.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2697-1350, Bellucci, A., Haarsma, R., Koenigk, T., Moine, M.-P., Lohmann, K., Putrasahan, D. A., Roberts, C., Roberts, M., Scoccimarro, E., Schiemann, R.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3095-9856, Seddon, J., Senan, R., Valcke, S. and Vanniere, B.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8600-400X
(2020)
Impact of higher spatial atmospheric resolution on precipitation extremes over land in global climate models.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 125 (3).
ISSN 2169-8996
doi: 10.1029/2019jd032184
Fabiano, F., Christensen, H. M., Strommen, K., Athanasiadis, P., Baker, A.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2697-1350, Schiemann, R.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3095-9856 and Corti, S.
(2020)
Euro-Atlantic weather regimes in the PRIMAVERA coupled climate simulations: impact of resolution and mean state biases on model performance.
Climate Dynamics, 54 (11-12).
pp. 5031-5048.
ISSN 0930-7575
doi: 10.1007/s00382-020-05271-w
2019
Roberts, M. J., Baker, A.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2697-1350, Blockley, E. W., Calvert, D., Coward, A., Hewitt, H. T., Jackson, L. C., Kuhlbrodt, T.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2328-6729, Mathiot, P., Roberts, C. D., Schiemann, R.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3095-9856, Seddon, J., Vanniere, B.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8600-400X and Vidale, P. L.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1800-8460
(2019)
Description of the resolution hierarchy of the global coupled HadGEM3-GC3.1 model as used in CMIP6 HighResMIP experiments.
Geoscientific Model Development, 12 (12).
pp. 4999-5028.
ISSN 1991-9603
doi: 10.5194/gmd-12-4999-2019
Baker, A. J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2697-1350, Schiemann, R.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3095-9856, Hodges, K. I.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0894-229X, Demory, M.-E., Mizielinski, M. S., Roberts, M. J., Shaffrey, L. C.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2696-752X, Strachan, J. and Vidale, P. L.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1800-8460
(2019)
Enhanced climate change response of wintertime North Atlantic circulation, cyclonic activity and precipitation in a 25 km-resolution global atmospheric model.
Journal of Climate, 32 (22).
pp. 7763-7781.
ISSN 1520-0442
doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0054.1
2015
Baker, A. J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2697-1350, Sodemann, H., Baldini, J. U. L., Breitenbach, S. F. M., Johnson, K. R., van Hunen, J. and Zhang, P.
(2015)
Seasonality of westerly moisture transport in the East Asian summer monsoon and its implications for interpreting precipitation δ18O.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 120 (12).
pp. 5850-5862.
ISSN 2169-8996
doi: 10.1002/2014JD022919
2014
Baker, A. J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2697-1350, Mattey, D. P. and Baldini, J. U. L.
(2014)
Reconstructing modern stalagmite growth from cave monitoring, local meteorology, and experimental measurements of dripwater films.
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 392.
pp. 239-249.
ISSN 0012-821X
doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.02.036
Last update: 13th June 2025