Mike Lockwood (physicist)

Michael Lockwood

Michael Lockwood FRS (born 1954) is a Professor of Space Environment Physics at the University of Reading.[1]

Life and works

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Schooled at The Skinners' School, Tunbridge Wells, he earned his BSc (1975) and then PhD (1978) degrees at the University of Exeter.[2] Much of his career has been with Rutherford Appleton Laboratory but he has also worked at University of Southampton, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and University of Auckland. His research interests comprise, among others, variations in the magnetic fields of the Sun, interplanetary space, and the Earth and in general solar influence on global and regional climate. He has served as the Chair of the Council of EISCAT and as a Council member for the British Natural Environment Research Council.

His lectures, at the Saas-Fee Advanced Course The Sun, Solar Analogs and the Climate, together with contributions of such experts as Joanna Haigh and Mark Giampapa, were published as a book by Springer in 2006.[3]

He played football during his postdoctoral studies in a team called the Merry Pranksters of Exeter University.[4] He plays guitar for the band Dumber than Chickens.[5]

Positions on solar influence on global and regional climate

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In 2007, Lockwood co-authored a paper about solar data from the past 40 years.[6] He was partly inspired to conduct the study after seeing the Great Global Warming Swindle, which contends that the Sun is the primary cause of recent climate change.[7] He found that between 1985 and 1987 all the solar factors that could affect climate performed an "U-turn in every possible way".[6] Lockwood told the New Scientist that he seriously doubted that solar influences were a big factor compared to anthropogenic influences: to explain the lack of global cooling since 1987 would require a very long response time to any solar forcing which is not found in detected responses to volcanic forcing.[6][8]

However, Lockwood has stressed the distinction between global, regional and seasonal climate changes and is of the opinion that solar modulation of the winter, northern hemisphere jet stream might well result in Europe experiencing a higher fraction of cold winters.[9][10] From past variations of the Sun deduced from cosmogenic isotopes he concludes that a slide into a new Maunder Minimum is possible over the next 50–100 years.[9][10] The biggest impact of such a decline in solar activity would be a higher occurrence frequency of relatively cold winters in the UK and across Europe, each of which would be accompanied by a relatively warm one elsewhere (for example in Greenland).[9][10]

In 2012, Lockwood said the field of Sun-climate relations had been "corrupted by unwelcome political and financial influence as climate change sceptics have seized upon putative solar effects as an excuse for inaction on anthropogenic warming".[11]

Awards

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Works

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  • M. Lockwood, The study of HF radio waves propagated over a long, sub-auroral path, Exeter University, UK, 1978 (http://lib.exeter.ac.uk/record=b1308620~S6)
  • Saas-Fe Book (2004), J.D. Haigh, M. Lockwood and M.S. Giampapa, The Sun, Solar Analogs and the Climate, Springer, ISBN 3-540-23856-5, 2004
  • M. Lockwood Reconstruction and Prediction of Variations in the Open Solar Magnetic Flux and Interplanetary Conditions, Living Reviews in Solar Physics, 10, 4, 2013. doi:10.12942/lrsp-2013-4
  • M. Lockwood, Solar Influence on Global and Regional Climate, Surveys in Geophysics, 33 (3), 503–534, 2012. doi:10.1007/s10712-012-9181-3
  • M. Lockwood et al., The rise and fall of open solar flux during the current grand solar maximum, Ap. J., 700 (2), 937–944, 2009. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/700/2/937
  • M. Lockwood et al., A doubling of the sun's coronal magnetic field during the last 100 years, Nature, 399, 437–439, 1999. doi:10.1038/20867
  • S.W.H. Cowley and M. Lockwood, Excitation and decay of solar-wind driven flows in the magnetosphere-ionosphere system, Annales Geophys., 10, 103–115, 1992.[19]
  • M. Lockwood et al., Ionospheric signatures of pulsed magnetic reconnection at the Earth's magnetopause, Nature, 361 (6411), 424–428, 1993 doi:10.1038/361424a0, 1993
  • M. Lockwood et al., Non-Maxwellian ion velocity distributions observed using EISCAT, Geophys. Res. Lett., 14, 111–114, 1987. doi:10.1029/GL014i002p00111
  • M. Lockwood et al., The geomagnetic mass spectrometer – mass and energy dispersions of ionospheric ion flows into the magnetosphere, Nature, 316, 612–613, 1985. doi:10.1038/316612a0
  • more than 400 journal publications[20]

References

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  1. ^ Mike Lockwood Archived 10 April 2017 at the Wayback Machine Google Scholar
  2. ^ "University of Exeter Library /All Exeter". Archived from the original on 17 November 2019. Retrieved 2 March 2022.
  3. ^ The Sun, Solar Analogs and the Climate: Saas-Fee Advanced Course 34, 2004. Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy, Joanna Dorothy Haigh, Michael Lockwood, Mark S. Giampapa, (eds. Isabelle Rüedi, Manuel Güdel, and Werner Schmutz), Springer Science+Business Media, 30 March 2006, ISBN 978-3-540-27510-7
  4. ^ "team presentation on Lockwood's website, 1979" (PDF).[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ "band entry". Archived from the original on 19 August 2014. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
  6. ^ a b c Lockwood, M.; Fröhlich, C. (2007). "Recent oppositely directed trends in solar climate forcings and the global mean surface air temperature" (PDF). Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 463 (2086): 2447. Bibcode:2007RSPSA.463.2447L. doi:10.1098/rspa.2007.1880. S2CID 14580351. Archived from the original (Full free text) on 26 September 2007. Our results show that the observed rapid rise in global mean temperatures seen after 1985 cannot be ascribed to solar variability, whichever of the mechanisms is invoked and no matter how much the solar variation is amplified
  7. ^ Adam, David (5 July 2007). "Temperature rises 'not caused by sun'". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 3 July 2008. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  8. ^ Brahic, Catherine (11 July 2007). "Sun's activity rules out link to global warming". New Scientist. Archived from the original on 17 December 2014. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  9. ^ a b c Solar Activity and the so-called “Little Ice Age” Archived 19 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Carbon brief blog, 1 November 2013, Mike Lockwood
  10. ^ a b c Is our Sun falling silent? Archived 18 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine Rebecca Morelle, BBC World Service 18 January 2014
  11. ^ Mike Lockwood [1] Archived 2 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine Surveys in GeophysicsJuly 2012, Volume 33, Issue 3–4, pp 503–534, Solar Influence on Global and Regional Climates,
  12. ^ "Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) » Zeldovich Medals". Archived from the original on 9 November 2014. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
  13. ^ "URSI Awards". Archived from the original on 5 May 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
  14. ^ "The Royal Astronomical Society" (PDF). Archived from the original on 2 March 2022. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
  15. ^ "Appleton medal recipients". Archived from the original on 16 August 2017. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
  16. ^ "Introducing the new Editor of Proceedings A | Royal Society". royalsociety.org. 23 January 2019.
  17. ^ "Julius Bartels Medal". Archived from the original on 9 February 2015. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
  18. ^ "citation for RAS gold medal". Archived from the original on 15 April 2015. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
  19. ^ "Cowley and Lockwood (1992) paper on new paradigm for ionosphere/magnetosphere flow excitation" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 October 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
  20. ^ "publications and reprints". Archived from the original on 23 October 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
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