Dr Peter Hopcroft BSc(Hons), PhD

Dr Peter Hopcroft

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Birmingham Fellow

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 6167
Email
p.hopcroft@bham.ac.uk
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Address
Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Peter is interested in understanding and predicting climate change in both the past and future. Peter specialises in using Earth System models, particularly as applied to the periods prior to industrialisation.

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Qualifications

  • 2004: BSc(Hons) Physics with studies in musical performance, Imperial College London & Royal College of Music
  • 2009: PhD Geophysics, Imperial College London

Postgraduate supervision

Monsoon variations during the Holocene; palaeoclimate and the methane cycle;

Research

Peter is interested in understanding and predicting climate change in both the past and future. Peter specialises in using Earth System models, particularly as applied to the periods prior to industrialisation.

 

 

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Armstrong, E, Hopcroft, P & Valdes, PJ 2019, 'A simulated Northern Hemisphere terrestrial climate dataset for the past 60,000 years', Scientific Data, vol. 6, 265 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0277-1

Armstrong, E, Hopcroft, P & Valdes, PJ 2019, 'Reassessing the value of regional climate modelling using palaeoclimate simulations', Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL085127

Hopcroft, P & Valdes, PJ 2019, 'On the role of dust‐climate feedbacks during the mid‐Holocene', Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 1612-1621. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL080483

Sime, LC, Hopcroft, P & Rhodes, RH 2019, 'Impact of abrupt sea ice loss on Greenland water isotopes during the last glacial period', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 116, no. 10, pp. 4099-4104. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1807261116

Hopcroft, P, Valdes, PJ & Kaplan, JO 2018, 'Bayesian analysis of the glacial-interglacial methane increase constrained by stable isotopes and Earth System modelling', Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1002/2018GL077382

Kageyama, M, Albani, S, Braconnot, P, Harrison, SP, Hopcroft, PO, Ivanovic, RF, Lambert, F, Marti, O, Peltier, WR, Peterschmitt, J, Roche, DM, Tarasov, L, Zhang, X, Brady, EC, Haywood, AM, Legrande, AN, Lunt, DJ, Mahowald, NM, Mikolajewicz, U, Nisancioglu, KH, Otto-bliesner, BL, Renssen, H, Tomas, RA, Zhang, Q, Abe-ouchi, A, Bartlein, PJ, Cao, J, Li, Q, Lohmann, G, Ohgaito, R, Shi, X, Volodin, E, Yoshida, K, Zhang, X & Zheng, W 2017, 'The PMIP4 contribution to CMIP6 – Part 4: Scientific objectives and experimental design of the PMIP4-CMIP6 Last Glacial Maximum experiments and PMIP4 sensitivity experiments', Geoscientific Model Development, vol. 10, no. 11, pp. 4035-4055. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-4035-2017

Hopcroft, PO, Kandlbauer, J, Valdes, PJ & Sparks, RSJ 2017, 'Reduced cooling following future volcanic eruptions', Climate Dynamics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-017-3964-7

Valdes, PJ, Armstrong, E, Badger, MPS, Bradshaw, CD, Bragg, F, Crucifix, M, Davies-barnard, T, Day, JJ, Farnsworth, A, Gordon, C, Hopcroft, PO, Kennedy, AT, Lord, NS, Lunt, DJ, Marzocchi, A, Parry, LM, Pope, V, Roberts, WHG, Stone, EJ, Tourte, GJL & Williams, JHT 2017, 'The BRIDGE HadCM3 family of climate models: HadCM3@Bristol v1.0', Geoscientific Model Development, vol. 10, no. 10, pp. 3715-3743. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-3715-2017

Hopcroft, PO, Valdes, PJ, Harper, AB & Beerling, DJ 2017, 'Multi vegetation model evaluation of the Green Sahara climate regime', Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 44, no. 13, pp. 6804-6813. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL073740

Hopcroft, PO, Valdes, PJ, O'Connor, FM, Kaplan, JO & Beerling, DJ 2017, 'Understanding the glacial methane cycle', Nature Communications, vol. 8, 14383. https://doi.org/Hopcroft_et_al_Understanding_the_glacial_methane_cycle_Nature_Communications_2017, https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14383

Kageyama, M, Braconnot, P, Harrison, SP, Haywood, AM, Jungclaus, J, Otto-bliesner, BL, Peterschmitt, J, Abe-ouchi, A, Albani, S, Bartlein, PJ, Brierley, C, Crucifix, M, Dolan, A, Fernandez-donado, L, Fischer, H, Hopcroft, PO, Ivanovic, RF, Lambert, F, Lunt, DJ, Mahowald, NM, Peltier, WR, Phipps, SJ, Roche, DM, Schmidt, GA, Tarasov, L, Valdes, PJ, Zhang, Q & Zhou, T 2016, 'PMIP4-CMIP6: the contribution of the Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project to CMIP6', Geoscientific Model Development, pp. 1-46. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2016-106

Hopcroft, PO & Valdes, PJ 2015, 'Last glacial maximum constraints on the Earth System model HadGEM2-ES', Climate Dynamics, vol. 45, no. 5-6, pp. 1657-1672. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-014-2421-0

Hopcroft, PO, Valdes, PJ, Woodward, S & Joshi, MM 2015, 'Last glacial maximum radiative forcing from mineral dust aerosols in an Earth system model', Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, vol. 120, no. 16, pp. 8186-8205. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JD023742

Hopcroft, PO & Valdes, PJ 2015, 'How well do simulated last glacial maximum tropical temperatures constrain equilibrium climate sensitivity?', Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 42, no. 13, pp. 5533-5539. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL064903

Editorial

Hopcroft, P 2017, 'Atmospheric science: Ancient ice and the global methane cycle', Nature, vol. 548, pp. 403-404. https://doi.org/10.1038/548403a

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