William Roberts

I've always been fascinated by the weather and climate. This ultimately led to an undergraduate degree in Meteorology and a PhD in Atmospheric Sciences. Along this journey I learnt that not only do we know quite a lot about how the climate changed in the past, but also, by using climate models, we can explain the physics behind these changes. This is now the focus of my research. In the past I've looked at how year to year variability in the tropical Pacific evolved over the last 10 thousand years, how collapsing ice sheets can alter the global climate, and how year to year variability in Antarctica can be changed by the size of ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere. Underpining all of these studies is a desire to not just document changes but to explain how and why the changes happen.