Name Jennifer Francis | Fields Atmospheric sciences | |
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Thesis Arctic process and climate studies with the TOVS satellite sounder (1994) Residence New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States | ||
Doctoral advisor Drew A. Rothrock | ||
Dr jennifer francis arctic sea ice jet stream climate change
Jennifer Ann Francis is a research professor at Rutgers University's Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences since 1994.
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- Dr jennifer francis arctic sea ice jet stream climate change
- Climate change and extreme weather prof jennifer francis 2013
- Education
- Career
- Research
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Climate change and extreme weather prof jennifer francis 2013
Education
Francis received her PhD in atmospheric sciences from the University of Washington in 1994.
Career
From 1987 to 1988, she was a research assistant at the Ames Research Center. From 1988 to 1994, while attending the University of Washington, she was a research assistant at the department of Polar Science Center there.
Research
Francis's research focuses on climate change in the Arctic, and has published over 40 scientific papers on the topic. It is also her opinion that warming in the Arctic may be changing the jet stream, which, in turn, may be leading to abnormal weather patterns such as an unusually long winter in the United Kingdom, the 2013 Colorado floods, and the unusually cold conditions across much of the southern United States in early 2014. Specifically, Francis argues that the heating and cooling of Arctic seawater (the Arctic is warming much faster than the rest of the world) has slowed down the jet stream, resulting in weather conditions persisting for longer than they usually would. That the warming in the Arctic is linked to extreme weather elsewhere in the world is a view supported by some of Francis's research, such as a study published in Geophysical Research Letters in 2012.
