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PDF:1.3M Harvey, B. J., J. Methven, and M. H. P. Ambaum, 2018: An adiabatic mechanism for the reduction of jet meander amplitude by potential vorticity filamentation. J. Atmos. Sci., 75, In press. doi:10.1175/JAS-D-18-0136.1
PDF:1.3M Novak, L., M. H. P. Ambaum, and B. J. Harvey, 2018: Baroclinic Adjustment and Dissipative Control of Storm Tracks. J. Atmos. Sci., 75, 2955-2970. doi:10.1175/JAS-D-17-0210.1
PDF:2.7M Kamieniecki, J. A., M. H. P. Ambaum, R. S. Plant, and S. J. Woolnough, 2018: The implications of an idealised large-scale circulation for mechanical work done by tropical convection. J. Atmos. Sci., 75, 2533-2547. doi:10.1175/JAS-D-17-0314.1
PDF:1.1M Yano, J-I, and M. H. P. Ambaum, 2017: Moist Static Energy : Definition, Reference Constants, a Conservation Law, and Effects on Buoyancy. Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc., 143, 2727-2734. doi:10.1002/qj.3121.
PDF:1.3M Ruggieri, P., F. Kucharski, R. Buizza, and M. H. P. Ambaum, 2017: The transient atmospheric response to a reduction of sea-ice cover in the Barents and Kara seas. Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc., 143, 1632-1640. doi:10.1002/qj.3034.
PDF:7.4M Marshall, D. P., M. H. P. Ambaum, J. R. Maddison, D. R. Munday, and L. Novak, 2017: Eddy saturation and frictional control of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Geoph. Res. Lett., 44, 286-292. doi:10.1002/2016GL071702.
PDF:16M Novak, L., M. H. P. Ambaum, and R. Tailleux, 2017: Marginal Stability and Predator-Prey Behaviour within Storm Tracks. Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc., 143, 1421-1433. doi:10.1002/qj.3014.
PDF:1.1M Guarino, M.-V., M. A. C. Teixeira, and M. H. P. Ambaum, 2016: Turbulence generation by mountain wave breaking in flows with directional wind shear. Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc., 142, 2715-2726. doi:10.1002/qj.2862.
PDF:2.5M Harvey, B. J., J. Methven, and M. H. P. Ambaum, 2016: Rossby wave propagation on potential vorticity fronts with finite width. J. Fluid Mech., 794, 775-797. doi:10.1017/jfm.2016.180
PDF:1.5M Harrison, R. G., K. A. Nicoll, and M. H. P. Ambaum, 2015: On the microphysical effects of observed cloud edge charging. Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc., 141, 2690-2699. doi:10.1002/qj.2554
PDF:5.3M Novak, L., M. H. P. Ambaum, and R. Tailleux, 2015: The lifecycle of the North Atlantic storm track. J. Atmos. Sci., 72, 821-833. doi:10.1175/JAS-D-14-0082.1 Supplemental material: doi:10.1175/JAS-D-14-0082.s1
PDF:344K Ambaum, M. H. P., and L. Novak, 2014: A nonlinear oscillator describing storm track variability. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 140, 2680-2684. doi:10.1002/qj.2352
PDF:1.2M Frame, T. H. A., J. Methven, S. L. Gray, and M. H. P. Ambaum, 2013: Flow dependent predictability of the North Atlantic jet. Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, 2411-2416. doi:10.1002/grl.50454
PDF:325K Harrison, R. G., and M. H. P. Ambaum, 2013: Electrical signature in polar night cloud base variations. Env. Res. Lett., 8, 015027. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/015027. See also press release, Environmental Research Web, Physics World, The Guardian, Ingenioren (in Danish).
PDF:201K Ambaum, M. H. P., 2012: Creativity and skill in science. Creativity & Human Development. link
PDF:91K Ambaum, M. H. P., 2012: Frequentist vs Bayesian statistics – a non-statisticians view. arXiv:1208.2141v1 [physics.data-an]
PDF:122K Ambaum, M. H. P., 2012: Thermodynamic derivation of the fluctuation theorem and Jarzynski equality. ISRN Thermodynamics, 2012, 528737. doi:10.5402/2012/528737
Earlier version on arXiv:1103.5671v1 [cond-mat.stat-mech]
PDF:8.4M Pascale, S., J. M. Gregory, M. H. P. Ambaum, R. Tailleux, and V. Lucarini, 2012: Vertical and horizontal processes in the global atmosphere and the maximum entropy production conjecture. Earth Syst. Dynam., 3, 19-32. doi:10.5194/esd-3-19-2012
PDF:1.1M Pascale, S., J. M. Gregory, M. H. P. Ambaum, and R. Tailleux, 2012: A parametric sensitivity study of entropy production and kinetic energy dissipation using the FAMOUS AOGCM. Clim. Dyn., 38, 1211-1227. doi:10.1007/s00382-011-0996-2
PDF:741K Harrison, R. G., M. H. P. Ambaum, and M. Lockwood, 2011: Cloud base height and cosmic rays. Proc. Roy. Soc. A., 467, 2777-2791. doi:10.1098/rspa.2011.0040
PDF:584KB Ambaum, M. H. P., R. G. Harrison, J. Buiting, and Th. Beckers, 2011: The chaos machine: analogue computing rediscovered (2). Elektor, 37, Issue 418, 72-74.
PDF:373KB Ambaum, M. H. P., and R. G. Harrison, 2011: The chaos machine: analogue computing rediscovered (1). Elektor, 37, Issue 417, 72-75.
PDF:315K Osprey, S. M., and M. H. P. Ambaum, 2011: Evidence for the chaotic origin of Northern Annular Mode variability. Geoph. Res. Lett., 38, L15702. doi:10.1029/2011GL048181
PDF:475K Frame, T. H. A., M. H. P. Ambaum, S. L. Gray, and J. Methven, 2011: Ensemble prediction of transitions of the North Atlantic eddy-driven jet. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 137, 1288-1297. doi:10.1002/qj.829
PDF:360KB Harvey, B. J., and M. H. P. Ambaum, 2011: Perturbed Rankine vortices in surface quasi-geostrophic dynamics. Geoph. Astr. Fl. Dyn., 105, 377-391. doi:10.1080/03091921003694719
PDF:1.2MB Harvey, B. J., M. H. P. Ambaum, and X. J. Carton, 2011: Instability of shielded surface temperature vortices. J. Atmos. Sci., 68, 964-971. doi:10.1175/2010jas3669.1
PDF:1M Pascale, S., J. M. Gregory, M. H. P. Ambaum, and R. G. Tailleux, 2011: Climate entropy budget of the HadCM3 atmosphere-ocean general circulation model and of FAMOUS, its low-resolution version. Clim. Dyn., 36, 1189-1206. doi:10.1007/s00382-009-0718-1
PDF:770K Harrison, R. G., and M. H. P. Ambaum, 2010: Observing Forbush decreases in cloud at Shetland. J. Atmos. Sol.-Terr. Phys., 72, 1408-1414. doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2010.09.025
PDF:2.2M Hinssen, Y. B. L., and M. H. P. Ambaum, 2010: Relation between the 100 hPa heat flux and stratospheric potential vorticity. J. Atmos. Sci., 67, 4017-4027. doi:10.1175/2010jas3569.1
PDF:483K Ambaum, M. H. P., 2010: Significance tests in climate science. J. Clim., 23, 5927-5932. doi:10.1175/2010jcli3746.1
Earlier version on arXiv:1003.2934v1 [physics.ao-ph]
PDF:713KB Ambaum, M. H. P., 2010: Thermal Physics of the Atmosphere, J. Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 256pp. ISBN 978-0-470-74515-1. eBook: doi:10.1002/9780470710364
PDF:1MB Harvey, B. J., and M. H. P. Ambaum, 2010: Instability of surface temperature filaments in strain and shear. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 136, 1506-1513. doi:10.1002/qj.651
PDF:2.7M Athanasiadis, P. J., and M. H. P. Ambaum, 2010: Do high-frequency eddies contribute to low-frequency teleconnection tendencies? J. Atmos. Sci., 67, 419-433. doi:10.1175/2009jas3153.1
PDF:2.5M Monahan, A. H., J. C. Fyfe, M. H. P. Ambaum, D. B. Stephenson, and G. R. North, 2009: Empirical Orthogonal Functions: the medium is the message. J. Clim., 22, 6501-6514. doi:10.1175/2009jcli3062.1
PDF:2.2M Athanasiadis, P. J., and M. H. P. Ambaum, 2009: Linear contributions of different time scales to teleconnectivity. J. Clim., 22, 3720-3728. doi:10.1175/2009jcli2707.1
Harrison, R. G., and M. H. P. Ambaum, 2009: Observed atmospheric electricity effect on clouds. Env. Res. Lett., 4, 014003. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/4/1/014003
PDF:287K Harrison, R. G., and M. H. P. Ambaum, 2008: Enhancement of cloud formation by droplet charging. Proc. Roy. Soc. A, 464, 2561-2573. doi:10.1098/rspa.2008.0009
PDF:1.M Ambaum, M. H. P., 2008: Unimodality of wave amplitude in the Northern Hemisphere. J. Atmos. Sci., 65, 1077-1086. doi:10.1175/2007jas2298.1
PDF:132K Ambaum, M. H. P., 2008: General relationships between pressure, weight, and mass of a hydrostatic fluid. Proc. Roy. Soc. A, 464, 943-950. doi:10.1098/rspa.2007.0148
PDF:301K Ambaum, M. H. P., 2007: A nomogram for the atmosphere. Weather, 62, 344-345. doi:10.1002/wea.141
PDF:782K Ambaum, M. H. P., and P. J. Athanasiadis, 2007: The response of a surface frontal zone to heating. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 3708-3716. doi:10.1175/jas4038.1
PDF:1.8M Dritschel, D. G., and M. H. P. Ambaum, 2006: The diabatic contour advective semi-Lagrangian algorithm. Mon. Wea. Rev., 134, 2503-2514. doi:10.1175/mwr3202.1
PDF:280K Ambaum, M. H. P., and D. P. Marshall, 2005: The effects of stratification on flow separation. J. Atmos. Sci., 62, 2618-2625. doi:10.1175/jas3485.1
PDF:123KB Jewson, S., M. H. P. Ambaum, and C. Ziehmann, 2004: Singular vector ensemble forecasting systems and the prediction of flow dependent uncertainty. arXiv:physics/0402027v1 [physics.ao-ph]
PDF:560K Ambaum, M. H. P., and B. J. Hoskins, 2002: The NAO troposphere-stratosphere connection. J. Clim., 15, 1969-1978. doi:10.1175/1520-0442(2002)015<1969:TNTSC>2.0.CO;2
PDF:2.2MPDF:21K Ambaum, M. H. P., B. J. Hoskins, and D. B. Stephenson, 2001: Arctic Oscillation or North Atlantic Oscillation? J. Clim., 14, 3495-3507. (With Correction) doi:10.1175/1520-0442(2001)014<3495:AOONAO>2.0.CO;2
doi:10.1175/1520-0442(2002)015<0553:C>2.0.CO;2
Fischer, H., F. G. Wienhold, P. Hoor, O. Bujok, C. Schiller, P. Siegmund, M. Ambaum, H. A. Scheeren, and J. Lelieveld, 2000: Tracer correlations in the northern high latitude lowermost stratosphere: Influence of cross-tropopause mass exchange. Geoph. Res. Lett. , 27, 97 - 100. doi:10.1029/1999gl010879
PDF Dritschel, D. G., M. de la Torre Juarez, and M. H. P. Ambaum, 1999: The three-dimensional vortical nature of atmospheric and oceanic flows. Phys. Fluids, 6, 1512 - 1520. doi:10.1063/1.870014
PDF Dritschel, D. G., and M. H. P. Ambaum, 1998: The inclusion of non-conservative forcing into a conservative contour advection algorithm. Numerical Methods for Fluid Dynamics IV, (Ed. M. J. Baines), 99 - 110.
PDF Ambaum, M. H. P., en W. T. M. Verkley, 1998: PV zet meteorologen op het goede spoor? Meteorologica, 7, No. 1, 30 - 33.
PDF:5.1MB Ambaum, M. H. P., 1997: De tropopauze. Over daken en muren in de atmosfeer. Meteorologica, 6, No. 2, 4 - 9.
PDF:194KB M. H. P. Ambaum, 1997: Lower boundary condition for the quasigeostrophic equations in isentropic coordinates. KNMI Scientific Reports, 97-16.
PDF:8.4MB Dritschel, D. G., and M. H. P. Ambaum, 1997: A contour-advective semi-Lagrangian numerical algorithm for simulating fine-scale conservative dynamical fields. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 123, 1097 - 1130. doi:10.1002/qj.49712354015
PDF Ambaum, M. H. P., 1997: Isentropic formation of the tropopause. J. Atmos. Sci., 54, 555 - 568. doi:10.1175/1520-0469(1997)054<0555:IFOTT>2.0.CO;2
PDF Verkley, W. T. M., and M. H. P. Ambaum, 1995: Multiple steady states in a contour-dynamics model of large-scale atmospheric flow. Modern Dynamical Meteorology (ed. P. D. Ditlevsen), 193 - 199.
mail Ambaum, M. H. P., 1997: Large-scale dynamics of the tropopause. Ph.D. thesis, Eindhoven University of Technology, 128 pp. ISBN 90-386-0249-9
PDF Ambaum, M. H. P., and W. T. M. Verkley, 1995: Orography in a contour dynamics model of large-scale atmospheric flow. J. Atmos. Sci., 52, 2643 - 2662. doi:10.1175/1520-0469(1995)052<2643:OIACDM>2.0.CO;2

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