Kyle C. Armour: Curriculum Vitae
Contact
University of Washington, School of Oceanography
Box 355351, Seattle, WA 98195-5351, USAemail: karmour@uw.edu
phone: (206) 221-4402
web: http://faculty.washington.edu/karmour/

Academic Appointments & Research Experience
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, SEATTLE, WA
2020-present Associate Professor
School of Oceanography and Department of Atmospheric Sciences
2015-2020 Assistant Professor
School of Oceanography and Department of Atmospheric Sciences
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, CAMBRIDGE, MA
2012-2015 James S. McDonnell Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow
Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, SEATTLE, WA
2007-2012 Research Assistant
School of Oceanography
2005-2007 Teaching Assistant
Department of Physics

Education
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, SEATTLE, WA
2012 Ph.D., Physics
Dissertation title: Reversibility of sea ice and climate under global change
Advisors: LuAnne Thompson and Cecilia Bitz
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, SEATTLE, WA
2007 M.S., Physics
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO, CA
2005 B.S., Physics and B.A., Applied Mathematics

Awards & Fellowships
American Geophysical Union James B. Macelwane Medal, 2020
American Geophysical Union Fellow, 2020
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 2020
Runner up for the Science 2020 Breakthrough of the Year (behind COVID-19 vaccines): Sherwood, Webb etal. ‘An assessment of Earth’s climate sensitivity using multiple lines of evidence’, 2020

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Nature Climate Change Research Highlight: Dong et al. ‘Inter-model spread in the pattern effect and its
contribution to climate sensitivity in CMIP5 and CMIP6 models’, 2020
AGU Editors’ Highlight: Bonan et al. ‘Sources of uncertainty in the meridional pattern of climate change’,2018
AGU Editors’ Highlight: Proistosescu et al. ‘Radiative feedbacks from stochastic variability in surface
temperature and radiative imbalance’, 2018
NSF CAREER Award, 2018
CLIVAR Science Highlight: Armour ‘Energy budget constraints on climate sensitivity in light of inconstantclimate feedbacks’, 2017
Nature Climate Change Research Highlight and CLIVAR Science Highlight: Armour et al. ‘Southern Ocean
warming delayed by circumpolar upwelling and equatorward transport’, 2016
Nature Climate Change Research Highlight: Marshall et al. ‘The ocean’s role in polar climate change:
asymmetric Arctic and Antarctic responses to greenhouse gas and ozone forcing’, 2014
Environmental Research Letters Monthly Highlight: McCusker et al. ‘Rapid and extensive warming following
cessation of solar radiation management’, 2014
James S. McDonnell Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Complex Systems, 2012
AGU Editors’ Highlight: Armour et al. ‘The reversibility of sea ice loss in a state-of-the-art climate model’,2011
AGU Editors’ Highlight and Nature Climate Change Research Highlight: Armour et al. ‘Climate commitment
in an uncertain world’, 2011
Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Fellowship, 2005–2008
Shang-keng Ma Award, UC San Diego, Department of Physics, 2005

Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals*student or postdoctoral advisee
55. Dvorak M.T.*, K.C. Armour, D.M.W. Frierson, C. Proistosescu, M.B. Baker and C.J. Smith (2022) When
will the world be geophysically-committed to 1.5 and 2.0°C of global warming? Nature Climate Change, inpress
54. Oldenburg D.*, R.C.J. Wills, K.C. Armour and L. Thompson (2022) Resolution dependence of
atmosphere-ocean interactions and water-mass transformation in the North Atlantic, Journal of GeophysicalResearch: Oceans, in press
53. Cox T.*, G.H. Roe, A. Donohoe, K.C. Armour and D.M.W. Frierson (2022) Near invariance of poleward
atmospheric heat transport in response to mid-latitude orography, Journal of Climate, in press
52. Ragen S.*, K.C. Armour, L. Thompson, A. Shao and D. Darr (2022) The role of ocean basin geometry in
Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 52, 475-492, doi: 10.1175/JPOD-21-0036.1
51. Hahn L.*, K.C. Armour, D.S. Battisti, I. Eisenman and C.M. Bitz (2022) Seasonality in Arctic warming
driven by sea ice effective heat capacity, Journal of Climate, 35, 1629-1642, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0626.1
50. Dong Y.*, K.C. Armour, C. Proistosescu, T. Andrews, D.S. Battisti, P.M. Forster, D. Paynter, C.J. Smithand H. Shiogama (2021) Biased estimates of Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity and Transient Climate
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Response derived from historical CMIP6 simulations, Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL095778, doi:
10.1029/2021GL095778
49. Hahn L.*, K.C. Armour, M. Zelinka, C.M. Bitz and A. Donohoe (2021) Contributions to polar
amplification in CMIP5 and CMIP6 models, Frontiers in Earth Science, 9:710036, doi:
10.3389/feart.2021.710036
48. Wills R.C.J.*, K.C. Armour, D.S. Battisti, C. Proistosescu and L. Parsons (2021) Slow modes of global
temperature variability in regions of weak radiative feedbacks and their impact on climate sensitivity
estimates, Journal of Climate, 34, 8717-8738, doi: JCLI-D-20-1013.1
47. Rugenstein M. and K.C. Armour: Three flavors of radiative feedbacks and their implications for
estimating equilibrium climate sensitivity, Geophysical Research Letters, Geophysical Research Letters, 48,e2021GL092983, doi: 10.1029/2021GL092983
46. Oldenburg D.*, R.C.J. Wills*, K.C. Armour and L. Thompson (2021) Mechanisms of low-frequency
variability in North Atlantic Ocean heat transport and AMOC, Journal of Climate, 34, 4733-4755, doi:
10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0614.1
45. Cox T.*, K.C. Armour, G.H. Roe, A. Donohoe and D.M.W. Frierson (2021) Radiative and dynamic
controls on atmospheric heat transport over different planetary rotation rates, Journal of Climate, doi:
10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0533.1
44. Hahn L.*, K.C. Armour, D.S. Battisti, A. Donohoe, A.G. Pauling and C.M. Bitz (2020) Antarctic
elevation drives hemispheric asymmetry in polar lapse-rate climatology and feedback, Geophysical Research
Letters, 47, e2020GL088965, doi: 10.1029/2020GL088965
43. Wills R.C.J.*, D.S. Battisti, K.C. Armour, T. Schneider and C. Deser (2020) Pattern recognition methods
to separate forced responses from internal variability in climate model ensembles and observations, Journal of
Climate, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0855.1
42. Sherwood S., M.J. Webb, J.D. Annan, K.C. Armour, P.M. Forster, J.C. Hargreaves, G. Hegerl, S.A.
Klein, K.D. Marvel, E.J. Rohling, M. Watanabe, T. Andrews, P. Braconnot, C.S. Bretherton, G.L. Foster,Z. Hausfather, A.S. von der Heydt, R. Knutti, T. Mauritsen, J.R. Norris, C. Proistosescu, M. Rugenstein,
G.A. Schmidt, K.B. Tokarska and M.D. Zelinka (2020) An assessment of Earth’s climate sensitivity using
multiple lines of evidence, Reviews of Geophysics, 58, e2019RG000678, doi: 10.1029/2019RG000678
41. Zarakas C.M.*, A.L. Swann, M.M. Laguë, K.C. Armour and J.T. Randerson (2020) Plant physiology
increases the magnitude and spread of the transient climate response in CMIP6 Earth System Models,
Journal of Climate, 33, 8561–8578, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0078.1
40. Dong Y.*, K.C. Armour, M. Zelinka, C. Proistosescu, D. Battisti, C. Zhou and T. Andrews (2020) Intermodel spread in the pattern effect and its contribution to climate sensitivity in CMIP5 and CMIP6 models,33, 7755–7775, Journal of Climate, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-19-1011.1
39. Donohoe A., K.C. Armour, G.H. Roe, D.S. Battisti and L. Hahn* (2020) The partitioning of meridional
heat transport from the Last Glacial Maximum to CO2 quadrupling in coupled climate models, Journal of
Climate, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0797.1
38. Loeb N.G., H. Wang, R. Allan, T. Andrews, K.C. Armour, J.N.S. Cole, J.-L. Dufresne, P. Forster, A.
Gettelman, H. Guo, T. Mauritsen, Y. Ming, D. Paynter, C. Proistosescu*, M.F. Stuecker, U. Willén and K.
Wyser (2020) New generation of climate models track recent unprecedented changes in Earth’s radiationbudget observed by CERES, Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1029/2019GL086705
37. Stuecker M.F., A. Timmermann, F.-F. Jin, C Proistosescu*, S.M. Kang, D. Kim, K.-S. Yun, E.-S. Chung,
J.-E. Chu, C.M. Bitz, K.C. Armour and M. Hayashi (2020) Strong remote control of future equatorial
warming by off-equatorial forcing, Nature Climate Change, doi: 10.1038/s41558-019-0667-6

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36. Y. Dong*, C. Proistosescu*, K.C. Armour & D.S. Battisti (2019) Attributing historical and future evolutionof radiative feedbacks to regional warming patterns using a Green’s function approach: The preeminence of
the western Pacific. Journal of Climate, 32, 5471–5491, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0843.1
35. K.C. Armour, N. Siler, A. Donohoe & G.H. Roe (2019) Meridional atmospheric heat transport
constrained by energetics and mediated by large-scale diffusion, Journal of Climate, 32, 3655–3679, doi:
10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0563.1
34. R.C. Jnglin Wills*, D.S. Battisti, C. Proistosescu*, L. Thompson, D.L. Hartmann & K.C. Armour (2019)
Ocean circulation signatures of North Pacific decadal variability, Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 1690–1701,
doi: 10.1029/2018GL080716
33. R.C. Jnglin Wills*, K.C. Armour, D.S. Battisti & D.L Hartmann (2019) Ocean-atmosphere dynamic
coupling fundamental to the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, Journal of Climate, 32, 251–272, doi:
10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0269.1
32. M. Stuecker*, C.M. Bitz, K.C. Armour, C. Proistosescu*, S.M. Kang, S.-P. Xie, D. Kim, S. McGregor,
W. Zhang, S. Zhao, W. Cai, Y. Dong* & F.-F. Jin (2018) Polar amplification dominated by local forcing
and feedbacks, Nature Climate Change, 8, 1076–1081, doi: 10.1038/s41558-018-0339-y
31. D.B. Bonan*, K.C Armour, G.H Roe, N. Siler & N. Feldl (2018) Sources of uncertainty in the meridional
pattern of climate change, Geophysical Research Letters, 45, 9131–9140, doi: 10.1029/2018GL079429
30. D. Oldenburg*, K.C. Armour, L. Thompson & C.M. Bitz (2018) Distinct mechanisms of ocean heattransport into the Arctic under internal variability and climate change, Geophysical Research Letters, 45, 7692–
7700, doi: 10.1029/2018GL078719
29. T. Andrews, J.M. Gregory, D. Paynter, L.G. Silvers, C. Zhou, T. Mauritsen, M.J. Webb, K.C. Armour,
P.M. Forster & H. Titchner (2018) Accounting for changing temperature patterns increases historicalestimates of climate sensitivity, Geophysical Research Letters, 45, 8490–8499, doi: 10.1029/2018GL078887
28. N. Siler, G.H. Roe & K.C. Armour (2018) Insights into the zonal-mean response of the hydrologic cycle toglobal warming from a diffusive energy balance model, Journal of Climate, 31, 7481–7493, doi: 10.1175/
10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0081.1
27. S. Po-Chedley, C. Proistosescu*, K.C. Armour & B.D. Santer (2018) Climate constraint reflects forced
signal. Nature, 563, E6–E9, doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0640-y
26. N. Siler, G.H. Roe, K.C. Armour & N. Feldl (2018) Revisiting the surface-energy-flux perspective on thesensitivity of global precipitation to climate change. Climate Dynamics, 52, 3983–3995, doi: 10.1007/s00382018-4359-0
25. C. Proistosescu*, A. Donohoe, K.C. Armour, G.H. Roe, M.F. Stuecker* & C.M. Bitz (2018) Radiative
feedbacks from stochastic variability in surface temperature and radiative imbalance. Geophysical Research
Letters, 45, doi: 10.1029/2018GL077678
24. H. Goosse, J.E. Kay, K.C. Armour, A. Bodas-Salcedo, H. Chepfer, D. Docquier, A. Jonko, P.J. Kushner,
O. Lecomte, F. Massonnet, H.-S. Park, F. Pithan, G. Svensson & M. Vancoppenolle (2018) Quantifying
climate feedbacks in polar regions. Nature Communications, 9:1919, doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-04173-0
23. S. Po-Chedley*, K.C. Armour, C.M. Bitz, M.D. Zelinka, B.D. Santer & Q. Fu (2018) Sources ofintermodel spread in the lapse rate and water vapor feedbacks. Journal of Climate, 31, 3187–3206, doi:
10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0674.1
22. Y. Kostov*, D.G. Ferreira, K.C. Armour & J. Marshall (2018) Contributions of greenhouse gas forcing
and the Southern Annular Mode to historical Southern Ocean surface temperature trends. GeophysicalResearch Letters, 45, 1086–1097, doi: 10.1002/2017GL074964
21. K.C. Armour (2017) Energy budget constraints on climate sensitivity in light of inconstant climate
feedbacks. Nature Climate Change, 7, 331–335, doi: 10.1038/nclimate3278
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20. A.D. Haugstad*, K.C. Armour, D.S. Battisti & B.E.J. Rose (2017) Relative roles of surface temperatureand climate forcing patterns in the inconstancy of radiative feedbacks. Geophysical Research Letters, 44, doi:
10.1002/2017GL074372
19. M.F. Stuecker*, C.M. Bitz & K.C. Armour (2017) Conditions leading to the unprecedented low Antarctic
sea ice extent during the 2016 austral spring season. Geophysical Research Letters, 44, doi:
10.1002/2017GL074691
18. Y. Kostov*, J. Marshall, U. Hausmann, K.C. Armour, D.G. Ferreira & M.M. Holland (2017) Fast andslow responses of Southern Ocean sea-surface temperature to the SAM in coupled climate models. Climate
Dynamics, 5, 1595–1609, doi: 10.1007/s00382-016-3162-z
17. K.C. Armour, J. Marshall, J. Scott, A. Donohoe & E.R. Newsom (2016) Southern Ocean warming
delayed by circumpolar upwelling and equatorward transport. Nature Geoscience, 9, 549–554, doi:
10.1038/ngeo2731
16. G.H. Roe, N. Feldl, K.C. Armour, Y.-T. Hwang & D.M.W. Frierson (2015) The remote impacts ofclimate feedbacks on regional climate predictability. Nature Geoscience, 8, 135–139, doi: 10.1038/ngeo2346
15. J. Marshall, J. Scott, K.C. Armour, J.-M. Campin, M. Kelley & A. Romonou (2015) The ocean’s role in
the transient response of climate to abrupt greenhouse gas forcing. Climate Dynamics, 44, 2287–2299, doi:
10.1007/s00382-014-2308-0
14. A. Donohoe, K.C. Armour, A. Pendergrass & D.S. Battisti (2014) Shortwave and longwave radiative
contributions to global warming under increasing CO2. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 111, 16700–16705, doi:
10.1073/pnas.1412190111
13. Y. Kostov*, K.C. Armour & J. Marshall (2014) Impact of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
on global ocean heat storage and transient climate change. Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, doi:
10.1002/2013GL058998
12. J. Marshall, K.C. Armour, J. Scott, Y. Kostov, D. Ferreira, T. Shepherd & C.M. Bitz (2014) The ocean’srole in polar climate change: asymmetric Arctic and Antarctic responses to greenhouse gas and ozone
forcing. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A., 372, doi: 10.1098/rsta.2013.0040
11. B.E.J. Rose, K.C. Armour, D.S. Battisti, N. Feldl & D.D.B. Koll (2014) The dependence of transient
climate sensitivity and radiative feedbacks on the spatial pattern of ocean heat uptake. Geophys. Res. Lett., 41,
doi:10.1002/2013GL058955
10. K.E. McCusker, K.C. Armour, C.M. Bitz & D.S. Battisti (2014) Rapid and extensive warming following
cessation of solar radiation management. Environ. Res. Lett., 9, 024005, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/9/2/024005
9. A. Donohoe, J. Marshall, D. Ferreira, K.C. Armour & D. McGee (2014) The inter-annual variability oftropical precipitation and inter-hemispheric energy transport. Journal of Climate, 27, 3377–3392, doi:
10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00499.1
8. K.C. Armour, C.M. Bitz & G.H. Roe (2013) Time-varying climate sensitivity from regional feedbacks.
Journal of Climate, 26, 4518-4534, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00544.1
7. C.M. Bitz, K.M. Shell, P.R. Gent, D.A. Bailey, G. Danabasoglu, K.C. Armour, M.M. Holland & J.T.
Kiehl (2012) Climate sensitivity of the Community Climate System Model Version 4. Journal of Climate, 25,3053-3070, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00290.1
6. P. Langebroek, C. Bradshaw, A. Yanchilina, R. Caballero-Gill, C. Pew, K.C. Armour, S.-Y. Lee & I.-M.
Jansson (2012) Improved proxy record of past warm climates needed. Eos Trans. AGU, 93(14), 144, doi:
10.1029/2012EO140007

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5. K.C. Armour, I. Eisenman, E. Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, K.E. McCusker & C.M. Bitz (2011) The
reversibility of sea ice loss in a state-of-the-art climate model. Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L16705, doi:
10.1029/2011GL048739
4. G.H. Roe & K.C. Armour (2011) How sensitive is climate sensitivity? Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L14708, doi:
10.1029/2011GL047913
3. K.C. Armour & G.H. Roe (2011) Climate commitment in an uncertain world. Geophys. Res. Lett., 38,
L01707, doi: 10.1029/2010GL045850
2. E. Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, K.C. Armour, C.M. Bitz & E. DeWeaver (2011) Persistence and inherent
predictability of Arctic sea ice in a GCM ensemble and observations. Journal of Climate, 24, 231-250, doi:
10.1175/2010JCLI3775.1
1. K.C. Armour, C.M. Bitz, L. Thompson & E.C. Hunke (2011) Controls on Arctic sea ice from first- year
and multiyear ice survivability. Journal of Climate, 24, 2378-2390, doi: 10.1175/2010JCLI3823.1

Other Creative Works
5. Forster, P., T. Storelvmo, K. Armour, et al., In: Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis.
Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change [Masson-Delmotte, V., P. Zhai, A. Pirani, S. L. Connors, C. Péan, S. Berger, N. Caud, Y.
Chen, L. Goldfarb, M. I. Gomis, M. Huang, K.Leitzell, E. Lonnoy, J.B.R. Matthews, T. K. Maycock, T.
Waterfield, O. Yelekçi, R. Yu and B. Zhou (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press. In Press.
4. Arias, P. A., N. Bellouin, E. Coppola, R. G. Jones, G. Krinner, J. Marotzke, V. Naik, M. D. Palmer, G-K.
Plattner, J. Rogelj, M. Rojas, J. Sillmann, T. Storelvmo, P. W. Thorne, B. Trewin, K. Achuta Rao, B.
Adhikary, R. P. Allan, K. Armour, et al., 2021, Technical Summary. In: Climate Change 2021: The
Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of theIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Masson-Delmotte, V., P. Zhai, A. Pirani, S. L. Connors, C.
Péan, S. Berger, N. Caud, Y. Chen, L. Goldfarb, M. I. Gomis, M. Huang, K. Leitzell, E. Lonnoy, J.B.R.
Matthews, T. K. Maycock, T. Waterfield, O. Yelekçi, R. Yu and B. Zhou (eds.)]. Cambridge University
Press. In Press.
3. K.C. Armour (2016) Projection and prediction: Climate sensitivity on the rise. Nature Climate Change, 6,
896–897, doi: 10.1038/nclimate3079
2. K.C. Armour & C.M. Bitz (2015) Observed and projected trends in Antarctic sea ice. US CLIVAR
Variations, 13.4, 13–19
1. K.C. Armour (2012) Reversibility of sea ice and climate under global change. PhD Thesis, University ofWashington, Seattle, WA

Submitted Manuscripts
3. Andrews T., A. Bodas-Salcedo, Y. Dong*, K.C. Armour, D. Paynter, P. Lin, A. Modak, T. Mauritsen,
J.N.S. Cole, B. Medeiros, J.J. Benedict, H. Douville, R. Roehrig, T. Koshiro, H. Kawai, T. Ogura, J.-L.
Dufresne, R.P. Allan, and C. Liu: On the effect of historical SST patterns on radiative feedback, submitted
to Journal of Climate
2. Dong Y.*, K.C. Armour, D.S. Battisti and E. Blanchard-Wrigglesworth: Two-way teleconnections
between the Southern Ocean and the tropical Pacific via a dynamic feedback, submitted to Journal of Climate
1. Proistosescu C., D.S. Battisti, K.C. Armour and G.H. Roe: Equilibrium climate sensitivity controls
uncertainty in regional climate change over the 21st century, submitted to PNAS

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Current Research Grants
DOE DE-SC0022110; 08/15/2021–08/14/2024; “Bridging spatio-temporal scales to observationallyconstrain the cloud feedback pattern effect.” (co-PI)
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship; 09/15/2020-09/14/2022 (sole PI)
NSF AGS- 2019647; 07/01/2020–06/30/2023; “Downgradient energy transport and the atmosphericcirculation.” (co-PI)
NOAA MAPP NA20OAR4310391; 09/01/2020–08/31/2023; “Process-level metrics for evaluating therealism of CMIP6 models’ climate sensitivity based on multiple lines of observational evidence.” (lead PI)
NSF OCE-2002276; 06/01/2020–05/31/2023; “Collaborative Research: Quantifying the sea-surface
temperature pattern effect for LGM and Pliocene constraints on climate sensitivity.” (lead PI)
NSF OCE-1850900; 04/01/2019–03/31/2023; “The role of oceans in climate asymmetries.” (sole PI)
NSF AGS-1752796; 06/01/2018–05/31/2023; “CAREER: Understanding the time- and statedependence of climate sensitivity.” (sole PI)

Previous Research Grants
NSF OCE-1523641; 08/31/2015–09/01/2018; “OCE-RIG: Identifying the role of ocean circulation inpolar climate change.” (sole PI)
James S. McDonnell Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship; 10/01/2012–04/30/2015; “Investigating
regional climate feedbacks, spatial patterns of warming and time-varying climate sensitivity.” (sole PI)

Advising
Graduate students
Michelle Dvorak, School of Oceanography (2020-present; primary advisor)
Vincent Cooper, Department of Atmospheric Sciences (2020-present; co-advisor with Greg Hakim)
Lily Hahn, Department of Atmospheric Sciences (2018-present; co-advisor with David Battisti)
Tyler Cox, Department of Atmospheric Sciences (2018-present; co-advisor with Gerard Roe)Sarah Ragen, School of Oceanography (2017-present; primary advisor)
Former graduate students:
Yue Dong, Department of Atmospheric Sciences (2016-2021; MS 2019, PhD 2021; co-advisor with David
Battisti), PhD Thesis: Dependence of radiative feedbacks on patterns of surface warming
Dylan Oldenburg, School of Oceanography (2015-2021; MS 2018, PhD 2021; primary advisor), PhD
Thesis: Mechanisms of ocean heat transport and circulation variability in the North Atlantic Ocean
Alexander Haugstad, Department of Atmospheric Sciences (MS 2017; co-advisor with David Battisti; Nowa data scientist at APi Group, Inc.), Master’s Thesis: Investigating the dependence of radiative feedbacks on
patterns of forcing and surface temperature change.
Undergraduate students
Qi Ge, Department of Atmospheric Sciences (2021-present; co-advisor with Gerard Roe)Owen Boram, School of Oceanography (2012-present)
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Former undergraduate students:
David Bonan, Department of Atmospheric Sciences (2017-2019; Research advisor for Mary Gates
Research Scholarship; Now a graduate student at Caltech)
Postdoctoral Researchers
Robert Fajber, NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Atmospheric
Sciences (2020-present; Co-mentor w/ Aaron Donohoe)
Former postdoctoral researchers:
Robert Jnglin Wills, Department of Atmospheric Sciences (2017-2020; Co-mentor w/ David Battisti,
Dennis Hartmann and LuAnne Thompson); Now a research scientist at UW
Cristian Proistosescu, JISAO Postdoctoral Fellow (2017-2019; Co-mentor w/ Gerard Roe; Now an
Assistant Professor at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Hannah Zanowski, JISAO Postdoctoral Fellow (2017-2019; Co-mentor w/ Cecilia Bitz and Greg Johnson;
Now an Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Teaching
OCEAN 423: Ocean Circulation and Climate (Spring 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021)
OCEAN/ATMS/ESS 475/586: Current Research in Climate Change (Winter 2018)
ATMS 587: Fundamentals of Climate Change (Autumn 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020)
OCEAN 569/ATMS 591/ESS 590: Climate Dynamics (Winter 2017, 2019, 2021)
Atmospheric Sciences Colloquium (coordinator Autumn 2016)
Physical Oceanography Seminar (coordinator Spring 2017, Autumn 2020)
Atmospheric and Climate Dynamics Seminar (coordinator Autumn 2019)

Service and Synergistic Activities
Core Writing Team Member, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth Assessment Report, AR6
Synthesis Report, 2020-present
Lead Author, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth Assessment Report, Working Group I,
Summary for Policymakers, 2020-2021
Lead Author, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth Assessment Report, Working Group I,
Technical Summary, 2020-2021
Lead Author, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth Assessment Report, Working Group I,
Chapter 7: The Earth’s energy budget, climate feedbacks, and climate sensitivity, 2018-2021
Contributing Author, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth Assessment Report, Working GroupI, Chapter 4: Future global climate: scenario-based projections and near-term information, 2018-2021
Contributing Author, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth Assessment Report, Working GroupI, Chapter 9: Ocean, cryosphere, and sea level change, 2018-2021
Member, Committee on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics (AOFD), 2017-present
Reviewer for Science, Nature, Nature Geoscience, Nature Climate Change, Nature Communications,
Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, Journal of Climate, Geophysical Research Letters,
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Climate Dynamics, Journal of Physical Oceanography, Journal of Geophysical Research, Climatic Change
Letters, The Cryosphere, Environmental Research Letters, Current Climate Change Reports, Progress inEarth and Planetary Science, Ocean Modelling, MDPI Atmospheres, npj Climate and Atmospheric
Science, Earth’s Future, Earth System Dynamics, Science Advances, and Journal of Advances in Modeling
Earth Systems
Proposal Reviewer for the US National Science Foundation (NSF), the New Zealand Antarctic ResearchInstitute (NZARI), Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), National Environment
Research Council (NERC), and the UW Royalty Research Fund (RRF)
Session Convener, Ocean Sciences Meeting (2016, 2018); AMS Annual Meeting (2017); NCAR Southern
Ocean Workshop (2017); AGU Fall Meeting (2012, 2013, 2014); Advanced Climate Dynamics Course(ACDC) Reunion (2019)

Board member, UW Program on Climate Change (PCC) Advisory Board, 2017-2020; Executive Board
2020-present
Lecturer, Princeton University AOS Workshop: Ice in the climate system. Princeton, NJ, 2014
Lecturer, Leipzig Graduate School Clouds, Aerosols and Radiation (LGS-CAR): The lapse-rate feedback in
the Arctic. March, 2021
Professional Affiliations with the American Geophysical Union and American Meteorological Society

Volunteering & Outreach
Panelist, Climate Science on Tap, Ask a Scientist: Science Roulette, December 2020
Volunteer and Organizer, Climate science workshops for high school science teachers, Seattle, WA, 2015–
present
Speaker, “A polar climate change puzzle”, Ada’s Bookstore, organized by Cascadia Climate Action, Seattle,
WA, April 2016
Speaker, “Climate change: history, causes, and what to expect next”, Skyline Retirement Community,
Seattle, WA, August 2018
Volunteer, UW Polar Science Weekend at Pacific Science Center (2016, 2017)
Volunteer, Polar Bears International, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, October 2015
Coordinator, Oceans at MIT outreach, Cambridge, MA, 2012-2015

Kyle C. Armour – Curriculum Vitae – March 20229