Professor Philip Stier
Professor of Atmospheric Physics, Department of Physics; Director of the Intelligent Earth UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in AI for the Environment
Academic profile
About
Philip Stier is Professor of Atmospheric Physics and Director of the Intelligent Earth UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in AI for the Environment.
Professor Stier’s main research interests are in clouds and aerosol physics, their interactions and relationship to the climate. He works to understand the key role of clouds for climate change combining theory, numerical modelling and Earth observations with AI.
Professor Stier leads the Climate Processes Group in the Department of Physics and is on the steering group of the University’s Oxford Climate Research Network.
Expertise
- Clouds
- Aerosols
- Climate change
- Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science
Selected publications
- ICON-HAM-lite 1.0: simulating the Earth system with interactive aerosols at kilometer scales (Geoscientific Model Development, 2025)
- Regional variability of aerosol impacts on clouds and radiation in global kilometer-scale simulations (Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2025)
- Multifaceted aerosol effects on precipitation (Nature Geoscience, 2024)
- Multifractal Analysis for Evaluating the Representation of Clouds in Global Kilometer-Scale Models (Geophysical Research Letters, 2024)
- AI for Climate Science (Artificial Intelligence for Science, 2023)
- Invisible ship tracks show large cloud sensitivity to aerosol (Nature, 2022)
- On the contribution of fast and slow responses to precipitation changes caused by aerosol perturbations (2021)
- Biomass burning aerosols in most climate models are too absorbing (Nature Communications, 2021)
- Isolating Large-Scale Smoke Impacts on Cloud and Precipitation Processes Over the Amazon With Convection Permitting Resolution (JGR Atmospheres, 2021)
- An Energetic View on the Geographical Dependence of the Fast Aerosol Radiative Effects on Precipitation (JGR Atmospheres, 2021)
Media experience
Various interviews.
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