Dr Stephen Sitch
Reader in Integrated Atmospheric and Hydrological Modelling
School of Geography
Dr. Stephen Sitch holds the position of Reader in Integrated Atmospheric and Hydrological Modelling in the School of Geography, one of four water@leeds academic appointments. He has 15 years research experience in Earth System Science.
The central theme of his research is the role of the land biosphere in the Earth System. His research is highly interdisciplinary in nature, ranging from plant physiology, plant population dynamics, soil biogeochemistry, to global biogeochemical modelling of the water and carbon cycles. Dr Sitch built the Lund-Potsdam-Jena Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (LPJ-DGVM) and helped couple it to atmospheric models of a range of complexities from intermediate to full complexity General Circulation Models (GCMs).
Between 2004 and 2009 Dr Sitch worked at the UK Met Office Hadley Centre on the interactions between land ecosystems, climate and atmospheric chemistry and is activity involved in the further development of the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES) and the Hadley Centre Earth System model (HadGEM2-ES). His work has also been cited in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports.
Dr Stephen Sitch
School of Geography
Tel: +44 (0)113 343 1974
Email: s.sitch@leeds.ac.uk
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