Ben Harvey

TL;DR: Modelling and prediction efforts are starting to provide some useful information on how blocking and its impacts may change in the future, although deeper understanding of the processes at play will be needed to increase confidence in model projections.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated changes in the extra-tropical wintertime storm tracks using the multi-model ensembles from both the third and fifth phases of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP3 and CMIP5).

TL;DR: The North Atlantic Waveguide and Downstream Impact Experiment (NAWDEX) explored the impact of diabatic processes on disturbances of the jet stream and their influence on downstream high-impact weather through the deployment of four research aircraft, each with a sophisticated set of remote-sensing and in situ instruments, and coordinated with a suite of ground-based measurements as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the representation of the northern hemisphere (NH) storm tracks and jet streams and their response to climate change in climate model simulations from phases 3, 5 and 6 of the Couple Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP3, CMIP5 and CMIP6, respectively).

TL;DR: In this article, climate models from the recent CMIP5 experiment are analysed for evidence of an influence of Arctic temperatures on midlatitude blocking and cold European winters in particular, and the authors find limited evidence for an influence.