Dr. Andrea Dittus
NERC Independent Research Fellow (NCAS)
Research Interests:
- Climate and climate variability of a net-zero world
- Global and regional projections of climate change
- Historical and future changes in climate extremes
- Role of anthropogenic aerosol in global & regional climate variability
Current research Projects:
- Towards climate stabilisation: understanding changes in climate, climate variability, and impacts (NERC Fellowship)
Previous Research Projects:
- GloSAT Project
- Robust Projections of Real-World Climate Change (REAL Projections)
- DOVE - Decadal Ocean Variability and East Asia
- Securing Multidisciplinary UndeRstanding and Prediction of Hiatus and Surge events (SMURPHS)
Supervision:
- Andrea Rivosecchi is a PhD student with the Scenario DTP (co-supervised by Ed Hawkins, Reinhard Schiemann & Erich Fischer (ETHZ))
Community activities:
- Member of WG2 of the WCRP Lighthouse Activity Explaining and Predicting Earth System Change
- Co-initiator of the SMILE (Single Model Initial Condition Large Ensembles) monthly webinar series and community website
Datasets:
- Fixed concentration simulations with UKESM1 across multiple global warming levels (500 years per simulation)
- HadGEM3-GC3.1 ensemble of historical simulations with scaled anthropogenic aerosols: 5 aerosol scalings x 5 initial condition members: SMURPHS: Historical HadGEM3-GC3.1 scaled aerosol coupled ensemble
Centaur Publications
2024
King, A. D., Ziehn, T., Chamberlain, M., Borowiak, A. R., Brown, J. R., Cassidy, L., Dittus, A. J. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9598-6869, Grose, M., Maher, N., Paik, S., Perkins-Kirkpatrick, S. E. and Sengupta, A.
(2024)
Exploring climate stabilisation at different global warming levels in ACCESS-ESM-1.5.
Earth System Dynamics, 15 (5).
pp. 1353-1383.
ISSN 2190-4987
doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-15-1353-2024
Collins, M., Beverley, J. D., Bracegirdle, T. J., Catto, J., McCrystall, M., Dittus, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9598-6869, Freychet, N., Grist, J., Hegerl, G. C., Holland, P. R., Holmes, C., Josey, S. A., Joshi, M., Hawkins, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9477-3677, Lo, E., Lord, N., Mitchell, D., Monerie, P.-A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5304-9559, Priestley, M. D. K., Scaife, A., Screen, J., Senior, N., Sexton, D., Shuckburgh, E., Siegert, S., Simpson, C., Stephenson, D. B., Sutton, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8345-8583, Thompson, V., Wilcox, L. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5691-1493 and Woollings, T.
(2024)
Emerging signals of climate change from the equator to the poles: new insights into a warming world.
Frontiers in Science, 2.
1340323.
ISSN 2813-6330
doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fsci.2024.1340323
Dittus, A. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9598-6869, Collins, M., Sutton, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8345-8583 and Hawkins, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9477-3677
(2024)
Reversal of projected European summer precipitation decline in a stabilizing climate.
Geophysical Research Letters, 51 (6).
e2023GL107448.
ISSN 1944-8007
doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL107448
2023
Mulcahy, J. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0870-7380, Jones, C. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7221-8127, Rumbold, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8138-4541, Kuhlbrodt, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2328-6729, Dittus, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9598-6869, Blockley, E. W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0489-4238, Yool, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9879-2776, Walton, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7372-178X, Hardacre, C., Andrews, T., Bodas-Salcedo, A., Stringer, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4061-5299, de Mora, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5080-3149, Harris, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4834-7746, Hill, R., Kelley, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1413-4969, Robertson, E. and Tang, Y.
(2023)
UKESM1.1: development and evaluation of an updated configuration of the UK Earth System Model.
Geoscientific Model Development, 16 (6).
pp. 1569-1600.
ISSN 1991-9603
doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-1569-2023
Monerie, P.-A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5304-9559, Dittus, A. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9598-6869, Wilcox, L. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5691-1493 and Turner, A. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876
(2023)
Uncertainty in simulating twentieth century West African precipitation trends: the role of anthropogenic aerosol emissions.
Earth's Future, 11 (2).
e2022EF002995.
ISSN 2328-4277
doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EF002995
Boland, E. J. D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2430-7763, Dittus, A. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9598-6869, Jones, D. C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8701-4506, Josey, S. A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1683-8831 and Sinha, B.
(2023)
Ocean heat content responses to changing anthropogenic aerosol forcing strength: regional and multi‐decadal variability.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 128 (7).
e2022JC018725.
ISSN 2169-9291
doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2022jc018725
2021
Dittus, A. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9598-6869, Hawkins, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9477-3677, Robson, J. I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3467-018X, Smith, D. M. and Wilcox, L. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5691-1493
(2021)
Drivers of recent North Pacific decadal variability: the role of aerosol forcing.
Earth's Future, 9 (12).
e2021EF002249.
ISSN 2328-4277
doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EF002249
King, A. D., Kale Sniderman, J. M., Dittus, A. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9598-6869, Brown, J. R., Hawkins, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9477-3677 and Ziehn, T.
(2021)
Studying climate stabilization at Paris Agreement levels.
Nature Climate Change, 11.
pp. 1010-1013.
ISSN 1758-678X
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01225-0
2020
Shonk, J. K. P., Turner, A. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876, Chevuturi, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2815-7221, Wilcox, L. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5691-1493, Dittus, A. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9598-6869 and Hawkins, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9477-3677
(2020)
Uncertainty in aerosol radiative forcing impacts the simulated global monsoon in the 20th century.
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 20 (23).
pp. 14903-14915.
ISSN 1680-7375
doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-14903-2020
Dittus, A. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9598-6869, Hawkins, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9477-3677, Wilcox, L. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5691-1493, Sutton, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8345-8583, Smith, C. J., Andrews, M. B. and Forster, P. M.
(2020)
Sensitivity of historical climate simulations to uncertain aerosol forcing.
Geophysical Research Letters, 47 (13).
e2019GL085806.
ISSN 0094-8276
doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL085806
Andrews, M. B., Ridley, J. K., Wood, R. A., Andrews, T., Blockley, E. W., Booth, B., Burke, E., Dittus, A. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9598-6869, Florek, P., Gray, L. J., Haddad, S., Hardiman, S. C., Hermanson, L., Hodson, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7159-6700, Hogan, E., Jones, G. S., Knight, J. R., Kuhlbrodt, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2328-6729, Misios, S., Mizielinski, M. S., Ringer, M. A., Robson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3467-018X and Sutton, R. T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8345-8583
(2020)
Historical simulations with HadGEM3-GC3.1 for CMIP6.
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 12 (6).
e2019MS001995.
ISSN 1942-2466
doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2019MS001995
2019
Gillett, Z. E., Arblaster, J. M., Dittus, A. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9598-6869, Deushi, M., Jöckel, P., Kinnison, D. E., Morgenstern, O., Plummer, D. A., Revell, L. E., Rozanov, E., Schofield, R., Stenke, A., Stone, K. A. and Tilmes, S.
(2019)
Evaluating the relationship between interannual variations in the Antarctic ozone hole and Southern Hemisphere surface climate in chemistry-climate models.
Journal of Climate, 32 (11).
pp. 3131-3151.
ISSN 0894-8755
doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0273.1
Stone, D. A., Christidis, N., Folland, C., Perkins-Kirkpatrick, S., Perlwitz, J., Shiogama, H., Wehner, M. F., Wolski, P., Cholia, S., Krishnan, H., Murray, D., Angélil, O., Beyerle, U., Ciavarella, A., Dittus, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9598-6869, Quan, X.-W. and Tadross, M.
(2019)
Experiment design of the International CLIVAR C20C+ Detection and Attribution project.
Weather and Climate Extremes, 24.
100206.
ISSN 2212-0947
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wace.2019.100206
2018
Dittus, A. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9598-6869, Karoly, D. J., Donat, M. G., Lewis, S. C. and Alexander, L. V.
(2018)
Understanding the role of sea surface temperature-forcing for variability in global temperature and precipitation extremes.
Weather and Climate Extremes, 21.
pp. 1-9.
ISSN 2212-0947
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wace.2018.06.002
2016
Dittus, A. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9598-6869, Karoly, D. J., Lewis, S. C., Alexander, L. V. and Donat, M. G.
(2016)
A multiregion model evaluation and attribution study of historical changes in the area affected by temperature and precipitation extremes.
Journal of Climate, 29 (23).
pp. 8285-8299.
ISSN 1520-0442
doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0164.1
Donat, M. G., Alexander, L. V., Herold, N. and Dittus, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9598-6869
(2016)
Temperature and precipitation extremes in century-long gridded observations, reanalyses, and atmospheric model simulations.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 121 (19).
11,174-11,189.
ISSN 2169-897X
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JD025480
2015
Dittus, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9598-6869, Karoly, D. J., Lewis, S. C. and Alexander, L. V.
(2015)
A multiregion assessment of observed changes in the areal extent of temperature and precipitation extremes.
Journal of Climate, 28 (23).
pp. 9206-9220.
ISSN 0894-8755
doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00753.1
King, A. D., Donat, M. G., Fischer, E. M., Hawkins, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9477-3677, Alexander, L. V., Karoly, D. J., Dittus, A. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9598-6869, Lewis, S. C. and Perkins, S. E.
(2015)
The timing of anthropogenic emergence in simulated climate extremes.
Environmental Research Letters, 10 (9).
094015.
ISSN 1748-9326
doi: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/10/9/094015
Sippel, S., Mitchell, D., Black, M. T., Dittus, A. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9598-6869, Harrington, L., Schaller, N. and Otto, F. E. L.
(2015)
Combining large model ensembles with extreme value statistics to improve attribution statements of rare events.
Weather and Climate Extremes, 9.
pp. 25-35.
ISSN 22120947
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wace.2015.06.004
2014
Dittus, A. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9598-6869, Karoly, D. J., Lewis, S. C. and Alexander, L. V.
(2014)
An investigation of some unexpected frost day increases in southern Australia.
Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal, 64 (4).
pp. 261-271.
ISSN 1836-716X
doi: https://doi.org/10.22499/2.6404.002
Last update: 7th October 2024
