Tom Wood

Department of Civil and Structural Engineering

Research Associate in Policy Evidence for Extreme Climate Change Adaption

thomas.wood1@sheffield.ac.uk

E110A, Sir Frederick Mappin Building (Broad Lane Building)

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Tom Wood
Department of Civil and Structural Engineering
E110A
Sir Frederick Mappin Building (Broad Lane Building)
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD

Profile

Tom’s research aims to develop and communicate a systemic policy approach for extreme climate change adaptation. He is developing evidence regarding how extreme and worst-case climate change scenarios drive changes in urban and peri-urban infrastructure and food systems, given the growing need for resources and the decreasing availability of planetary resource stocks and flows, by mapping the key issues across interdisciplinary fields and synthesising evidence to support policy development.

Before joining the University of Sheffield, Tom completed a PhD in climate dynamics, investigating the large-scale atmospheric circulation response to climate change drivers, with a focus on climate modelling uncertainty.

Research Themes

Energy

Hazards

Infrastructure

Research interests

Extreme climate change (ECC)
Physical climate change
Climate change adaptation
Urban infrastructure
Food supply systems
Land use change
Climate risk management
Climate uncertainty analysis

Publications

Journal articles

Wood T, McKenna CM, Chrysanthou A & Maycock AC (2021) Role of sea surface temperature patterns for the Southern Hemisphere jet stream response to CO2 forcing. Environmental Research Letters, 16(1), 014020-014020.
Wood T, Maycock AC, Forster PM, Richardson TB, Andrews T, Boucher O, Myhre G, Samset BH, Kirkevåg A, Lamarque J-F , Mülmenstädt J et al (2020) The Southern Hemisphere Midlatitude Circulation Response to Rapid Adjustments and Sea Surface Temperature Driven Feedbacks. Journal of Climate, 33(22), 9673-9690.
Zhao X, Allen RJ, Wood T & Maycock AC (2020) Tropical Belt Width Proportionately More Sensitive to Aerosols Than Greenhouse Gases. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(7).
Richardson TB, Forster PM, Smith CJ, Maycock AC, Wood T, Andrews T, Boucher O, Faluvegi G, Fläschner D, Hodnebrog , Kasoar M et al (2019) Efficacy of Climate Forcings in PDRMIP Models. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124(23), 12824-12844.

Other

Wood T, Maycock A, McKenna C, Chrysanthou A, Fyfe J & Engelbrecht F () Revisiting the relationship between dynamical sensitivity and climate sensitivity in the Southern hemisphere.

Research group: Resources, Infrastructure Systems and built Environments