Dr. Neven Fučkar
About
Dr Neven Fučkar is a climate scientist who focuses on statistics, dynamics, prediction, attribution and impacts of extreme events in a changing climate, and utilises a wide spectrum of observations, reanalysis products, impact models, initialized predictions, and CMIP5/6 and weather/OpenIFS@home simulations.
Neven completed his PhD in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at Princeton University, USA, where he investigated large-scale ocean dynamics, hierarchy of models at different levels of complexity and the ocean's role in climate at NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. Furthermore, Neven's research interests encompass hydrological cycle, polar processes, interaction between the climate system and the human system affecting health, food production, water resources and markets, climate-related risk assessment, resilience strengthening and adaptation, and numerical, statistical and machine learning methods.
Expertise
- Weather and climate dynamics and modelling
- Extreme weather and climate events
- Attribution of extreme events
- Connections between the climate system and the human system
- Impacts of extreme events on human health, food production, water resources and markets
- Initialised predictions, bias correction and forecast verification
- Climate risk assessment, resilience strengthening and adaptation
- Numerical, statistical and machine learning methods
Selected publications
- Notz, D., et al., 2020, Arctic sea ice in CMIP6. Geophysical Research Letters, 47. e2019GL086749.
- Fučkar, N.S., et al., 2020, On high precipitation in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Zambia in February 2018.BAMS, 101: S47-S52.
- Fučkar, N.S., et al., 2018 Dynamical prediction of Arctic sea ice modes of variability. Climate Dynamics: 1-17.
- Otto, F.E.L., et al., 2018, Anthropogenic influence on the drivers of the Western Cape drought 2015 – 2017. Environmental Research Letters, 13(12).
- Uotila, P., et al., 2018, An assessment of ten ocean reanalyses in the polar regions. Climate Dynamics: 1-38.
- Haarsma, R.J., et al., 2016, High Resolution Model Intercomparison Project (HighResMIP) for CMIP6, 2016, Geosci. Model Dev., 9, 4185-4208
- Fučkar, N. S., et al., 2014, A posteriori adjustment of near-term climate predictions: Accounting for the drift dependence on the initial conditions, 2014, Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, 5200-5207
- Frierson, D.M.W., et al., 2013, Contribution of ocean overturning circulation to tropical rainfall peak in the Northern Hemisphere, Nature Geosciences, 6, 940-944.
Media experience
A member of Science Media Centre Scientist Database (providing comments and input to journalists)
A co-organiser of a Public Health England series of panel discussions on Climate Change Health and the 2030 Agenda on the road to COP26
Land me your ears, please! LET’S TALK ABOUT CLIMATE, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford (2 Nov 2019)
Climate Change: Have we reached the point of no return? LET’S TALK ABOUT CLIMATE – Day for Schools, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford (8 Oct 2019)
The Indicators of Climate Change, LET’S TALK ABOUT CLIMATE, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford, (21 Sep 2019)
Climate Advice Session with the Lord Mayor of Oxford, Oxford (20 Sep 2019)
Climate Change and Our Power, Youth Forum, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford (5 Jan 2019)
Meet the Experts, NERC/ASDC Operation Earth, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford (Oct 2018)
