Projects per year
Personal profile
Areas of Expertise
Climate Dynamics, Climate, Environmental Sciences, Climate Change, Planetary Science
Video: Manoj Joshi on the future emergence of unfamiliar climates across the world
Academic Background
My research focus started in planetary science but has slowly moved onto mainly the theory and modelling of the Earth's atmosphere and climate.
As well as the publications tab above, more details on my research publications are available on my google scholar and publons webpages
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Biography
After getting a doctorate at the University of Oxford I was a US National Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the NASA Ames Research Centre in California, studying the atmosphere and climate of Mars, and contributing to planning for space missions. At that time I also worked on constructing theoretical and computer-based models to predict the properties of the climates of exoplanets- these are planets orbiting stars other than the Sun. I also spent a year as a scientist at the SETI institute (doing more research on planetary climates - not hunting for aliens). I then moved earthwards to the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading, where I worked on physical models of climate and climate change. After some time as a research scientist at the Met Office, I returned to Reading as a senior scientist at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science, before coming to UEA.
Research Group or Lab Membership
Key Research Interests
My research is about understanding the climate of Earth (and other planets), as well as the dynamical and physical processes underpinning climate change, especially:
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The large-scale response of climate to radiative drivers, or processes that change the Earth's climatic energy balance. These can include the warming contrast between land and ocean, or the emergence of climate change signals.
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Stratospheric processes and climate
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The climates of terrestrial or Earthlike exoplanets
- I'm currently interested in the response of the Pacific Ocean to past, present and future change
I accomplish this using a combination of numerical (computer) models of varying complexity, simpler theories and statistical models too. A huge range of disciplines are studied at Environmental sciences at UEA, making for an extremely stimulating research environment.
Teaching Interests
I currently teach on these modules:
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Climate Systems ENV-6025B (module convenor & lecturer)
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Climate Change: Physical Science Basis ENV-7014A (lecturer)
- Global Environmental Challenges ENV-4001A (lecturer)
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Geoengineering ENV-7031A (lecturer)
Key Responsibilities
- Course director, MSc Climate Change
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Media Expertise
- Space
- Global temperatures
- Climate Change
- Atmospheric science
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Impacts of Pacific Ocean warming trends (ImPOse)
Natural Environment Research Council
1/10/22 → 31/03/26
Project: Research
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Pacific Rainfall over Millennial Scales (PROMS)
Joshi, M., Matthews, A., Osborn, T. & Skinner, D.
Natural Environment Research Council
1/08/22 → 28/02/26
Project: Research
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CA3THY: Climate implications of rapid changes in Asian Anthropogenic Aerosol (A3) emissions
1/10/21 → 31/12/25
Project: Research
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Seasonal Teleconnections to the Indian Monsoon: Understanding the Large-scale Atmospheric Tropical Environment (STIMULATE)
1/09/19 → 31/03/21
Project: Research
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Drivers of regional variation in the de-emergence of climate change under negative emissions
Douglas, H. C., Revell, L. E., Joshi, M., King, A., Harrington, L. J. & Frame, D. J., Mar 2025, In: Journal of Climate. 38, 5, p. 1333-1350 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Nonlinear and nonmonotonic effect of ocean tidal mixing on exoplanet climates and habitability
Di Paolo, M., Stevens, D. P., Joshi, M. & Hall, R. A., 1 Apr 2025, In: The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 982, 2, L48.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Physical processes influencing the Asian climate due to black carbon emission over East and South Asia
Luo, F., Samset, B., Stjern, C., Joshi, M., Wilcox, L., Allen, R., Hua, W. & Li, S., 12 May 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Process-based machine learning observationally constrains future regional warming projections
Wilkinson, S., Nowack, P. & Joshi, M., Jun 2025, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Machine Learning and Computation. 2, 2, e2025JH000698.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Surface temperature effects of recent reductions in shipping SO2 emissions are within internal variability
Watson-Parris, D., Wilcox, L. J., Stjern, C. W., Allen, R. J., Persad, G., Bollasina, M. A., Ekman, A. M. L., Iles, C. E., Joshi, M., Lund, M. T., McCoy, D., Westervelt, D. M., Williams, A. I. L. & Samset, B. H., 23 Apr 2025, In: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 25, 8, p. 4443-4454 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile1 Downloads (Pure)
Datasets
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Idealised baroclinic eddy forced by wind stress
Wilder, T. (Creator), Zhai, X. (Supervisor), Joshi, M. (Supervisor) & Munday, D. R. (Supervisor), American Meteorological Society, 2022
https://github.com/thomaswilder/jpo_eddy-scripts
Dataset
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INTEGRATE: climate model simulations data to study the Asian climate response to Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) using the Intermediate General Circulation Model version 4 (IGCM4)
Bishoyi Ratna, S. (Creator), Osborn, T. (Contributor) & Joshi, M. (Contributor), Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA), 25 Feb 2020
DOI: 10.5285/3f2f92ad04f84e65a2399deeafd8bbbc, http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/deposited2020/integrate/data/v1/
Dataset
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Data for: A capacitor-discharge mechanism to explain the timing of orogeny-related global glaciations
Joshi, M. (Creator), American Geophysical Union, 2019
Dataset
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Lunar nodal cycle amplitude modulation map
Hall, R. (Creator) & Joshi, M. (Creator), ESD discussions, 2022
Dataset
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NOC-MSM/FORTE2.0: FORTE 2.0: a fast, parallel and flexible coupled climate model
Blaker, A. (Creator), Dow, W. (Creator) & Joshi, M. (Creator), Zenodo, 13 Jul 2023
Dataset
Prizes
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The 2024 Adrian Gill Award for Advances at the Interface of Atmospheric Science and Related Disciplines
Joshi, Manoj (Recipient), 2025
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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NERC Peer Review College (External organisation)
Manoj Joshi (Member)
2014 → …Activity: Membership › Peer review panel
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Conversation Cafe event on the science of climate change (part of UEA's 50th anniversary celebration)
Manoj Joshi (Host)
2013Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (External organisation)
Manoj Joshi (Participant)
1 Jan 2010 → 1 Dec 2013Activity: Membership › Network, Working Group or Professional Association
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"Geoengineering the climate: science, governance and uncertainty"- a report from the Royal Society
Manoj Joshi (Contributor)
2009Activity: Other activity types › Other
Press/Media
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There’s growing evidence of possible life on other planets – here’s why you should still be sceptical
15/05/25
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Media Coverage or Contribution
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Earth will soon cross a scary climate change threshold. What happens next?
27/11/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Media Coverage or Contribution
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El Niño could push global warming past 1.5℃ – but what is it and how does it affect the weather in Europe?
29/06/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Media Coverage or Contribution
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Study of Earth's stratosphere reduces uncertainty in future climate change
27/06/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: UEA Press Release
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Oceans have been warming at almost half the rate of land - here's why
11/09/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Media Coverage or Contribution