Kyle Armour

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Kyle Armour
Born
Kyle C. Armour
Alma mater University of California, San Diego (BS/BA)
University of Washington (PhD)
Scientific career
Institutions University of Washington
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis Reversibility of sea ice and climate under global change  (2012)
Website faculty.washington.edu/karmour/

Kyle Armour is a Climate Scientist and Professor in the School of Oceanography and the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington. His research investigates changes in Earth's climate system using a combination of oceanographic and atmospheric observations, numerical climate model simulations, and theory. He has been awarded with a James B. Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union, a Sloan Research Fellowship, and an NSF CAREER Award, and he is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.

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Early life and education

Armour studied Physics and Applied Mathematics at UC San Diego, graduating in 2005. He received a PhD in Physics from the University of Washington in 2012. His doctoral research focused on Arctic climate change, [1] [2] as well as global climate change induced by greenhouse gases and aerosols. [3]

Research and career

After his PhD, Armour carried out research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology supported by a James S. McDonnell Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Complex Systems. Since 2015 he has been on the faculty at the University of Washington, where he is jointly appointed between the School of Oceanography and the Department of Atmospheric Sciences.

Armour's research focuses on climate dynamics, physical oceanography, sea ice, and climate sensitivity. He has investigated a range of different research topics, including the reason that the Southern Ocean has warmed so much less than the rest of the globe during recent decades, [4] how the climate sensitivity depends on the spatial pattern of global warming, [5] and how to infer the equilibrium climate sensitivity when climate change feedbacks vary over time. [6]

He was a lead author of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report. He also coauthored community assessments of Earth's climate sensitivity [7] and climate change feedbacks in the Polar regions of Earth. [8]

References

  1. ↑ Armour, Kyle C.; Bitz, Cecilia M.; Thompson, LuAnne; Hunke, Elizabeth C. (2011-05-01). "Controls on Arctic Sea Ice from First-Year and Multiyear Ice Survivability" (PDF). Journal of Climate. 24 (9): 2378–2390. Bibcode:2011JCli...24.2378A. doi: 10.1175/2010JCLI3823.1 . ISSN   0894-8755 . Retrieved 2025-04-09.
  2. ↑ Armour, K. C.; Eisenman, I.; Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, E.; McCusker, K. E.; Bitz, C. M. (2011). "The reversibility of sea ice loss in a state-of-the-art climate model" (PDF). Geophysical Research Letters. 38 (16): n/a. Bibcode:2011GeoRL..3816705A. doi: 10.1029/2011GL048739 . Retrieved 2025-04-09.
  3. ↑ Armour, K. C.; Roe, G. H. (2011-01-16). "Climate commitment in an uncertain world" . Geophysical Research Letters. 38 (1): n/a. Bibcode:2011GeoRL..38.1707A. doi:10.1029/2010GL045850 . Retrieved 2025-04-09.
  4. ↑ Armour, Kyle C.; Marshall, John; Scott, Jeffery R.; Donohoe, Aaron; Newsom, Emily R. (2016). "Southern Ocean warming delayed by circumpolar upwelling and equatorward transport" (PDF). Nature Geoscience. 9 (7): 549–554. Bibcode:2016NatGe...9..549A. doi: 10.1038/ngeo2731 . hdl:1721.1/106534. ISSN   1752-0894 . Retrieved 2025-04-09.
  5. ↑ Armour, Kyle C.; Bitz, Cecilia M.; Roe, Gerard H. (2013-07-01). "Time-Varying Climate Sensitivity from Regional Feedbacks" (PDF). Journal of Climate. 26 (13): 4518–4534. Bibcode:2013JCli...26.4518A. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00544.1 . ISSN   0894-8755 . Retrieved 2025-04-09.
  6. ↑ Armour, Kyle C. (2017). "Energy budget constraints on climate sensitivity in light of inconstant climate feedbacks" . Nature Climate Change. 7 (5): 331–335. Bibcode:2017NatCC...7..331A. doi:10.1038/nclimate3278. ISSN   1758-678X . Retrieved 2025-04-09.
  7. ↑ Sherwood, S. C.; Webb, M. J.; Annan, J. D.; Armour, K. C.; Forster, P. M.; Hargreaves, J. C.; Hegerl, G.; Klein, S. A.; Marvel, K. D.; Rohling, E. J.; Watanabe, M.; Andrews, T.; Braconnot, P.; Bretherton, C. S.; Foster, G. L.; Hausfather, Z.; von der Heydt, A. S.; Knutti, R.; Mauritsen, T.; Norris, J. R.; Proistosescu, C.; Rugenstein, M.; Schmidt, G. A.; Tokarska, K. B.; Zelinka, M. D. (2020). "An Assessment of Earth's Climate Sensitivity Using Multiple Lines of Evidence". Reviews of Geophysics. 58 (4) e2019RG000678. Bibcode:2020RvGeo..5800678S. doi: 10.1029/2019RG000678 . ISSN   8755-1209. PMC   7524012 . PMID   33015673.
  8. ↑ Goosse, Hugues; Kay, Jennifer E.; Armour, Kyle C.; Bodas-Salcedo, Alejandro; Chepfer, Helene; Docquier, David; Jonko, Alexandra; Kushner, Paul J.; Lecomte, Olivier; Massonnet, François; Park, Hyo-Seok; Pithan, Felix; Svensson, Gunilla; Vancoppenolle, Martin (2018-05-15). "Quantifying climate feedbacks in polar regions" (PDF). Nature Communications. 9 (1): 1919. Bibcode:2018NatCo...9.1919G. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-04173-0 . ISSN   2041-1723. PMC   5953926 . PMID   29765038 . Retrieved 2025-04-09.


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