Dr Julie Jones

School of Geography and Planning

Director of One University

Dr Julie Jones
Profile picture of Dr Julie Jones
Julie.Jones@Sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 7967
E5, Geography and Planning Building

Full contact details

Dr Julie Jones
School of Geography and Planning
E5
Geography and Planning Building
Winter Street
Sheffield
S3 7ND
Profile

I am a climate scientist with an interest in reconstructing and understanding past climate variability, with a particular interest in the Antarctic and the Southern Hemisphere.  I obtained my BSc in Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich.  I then moved to the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at UEA for my PhD research, looking at the Implications of Climate Change for Acidic Deposition over Europe, which I completed in 1997.  Following a short period of postdoctoral research in CRU, I moved to a postdoctoral position at the Institute for Coastal Systems at the Helmholz-Zentrum Hereon, Geesthacht, Germany, where in 2005 I became group leader of the Palaeoclimate research group.

I took up a lectureship in Climate Science in the Department of Geography in Sheffield in August 2006, and am now Senior Lecturer in Climate Science.  I have acted as an external examiner for PhDs in the UK and Germany, and am currently the external examiner for the MSc in Applied Meteorology and Climatology at the University of Birmingham.

I have supervised 10 PhD students, many of whom have continued into posts in academia or industry.

I am a fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society.

Research interests

A common theme to my research is the use of long instrumental and historical observations to reconstruct and to investigate past climate variability and change.  My research currently focusses on the Antarctic and High Latitude Southern Hemisphere, where for large regions regular meteorological observations did not start until the mid-Twentieth Century, and I have used statistical reconstructions to extend this record back in time.

I have developed reconstructions of the Southern Annular Mode (SAM), using mid-latitude station observations back to the late 19th and early 20th century.  This index represents the strength of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds. The reconstructions can be downloaded here.

My work has frequently involved intercomparison of observations with palaeoclimate proxy data, reanalysis and climate model (GCM) simulations to further understanding of the causes of this past climate variability and change.

Together with PhD students, I have developed reconstruction methodologies using data from ships logbooks, for Southern African rainfall for El Nino Southern Oscillation.  Previous students have also used archival data to explore past changes in the Northeast Indian Monsoon.  Current research students are exploring causes of recent trends in relative humidity, current and future climate drivers of Arctic vegetation browning, and the interaction between climate change and rural livelihoods in Western Zambia.

I was awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship in 2018 to use ships logbooks to reconstruct the Southern Annular mode, in collaboration with scientists at the National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) in New Zealand.

Other research interests throughout my career include:

  • The design and analysis of global climate model (GCM) simulations for the mid- and late-Holocene and development of methodologies for systematic comparison of these simulations with proxy data
  • Regional climate modelling with a focus on the European Alps
  • Links between atmospheric circulation and transport of air pollution
Publications

Journal articles

  • Fogt RL, Ziegler AN, King J & Jones JM (2025) . Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 106(9), E1873-E1888.
  • Hall RJ, Jones JM, Fogt RL & Bracegirdle TJ (2025) . Journal of Climate.
  • Tuckett PA, Sole AJ, Livingstone SJ, Jones JM, Lea JM & Gilbert E (2025) . Nature Climate Change, 15(7), 775-783.
  • Harrison TC, Bracegirdle TJ, Davrinche C, Dutrieux P, Gilbert E, Haigh M, Jones JM, Kent EC, King J, Lu H , Price R et al (2024) . Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 105(11), E2242-E2248.
  • Ing RN, Ely JC, Jones JM & Davies BJ (2024) . Journal of Glaciology, 71(2025).
  • Turner FE, Buck CE, Jones JM, Sime LC, Vallet IM & Wilkinson RD (2023) . Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C: Applied Statistics, 72(5), 1493-1511.
  • Lundstad E, Brugnara Y, Pappert D, Kopp J, Samakinwa E, H羹rzeler A, Andersson A, Chimani B, Cornes R, Demar矇e G , Filipiak J et al (2023) . Scientific Data, 10(1), 1-16.
  • Tuckett PA, Ely JC, Sole AJ, Lea JM, Livingstone SJ, Jones JM & van Wessem JM (2021) . The Cryosphere, 15(12), 5785-5804.
  • Fogt RL, Belak CP, Jones JM, Slivinski LC & Compo GP (2021) . International Journal of Climatology, 41(S1), E672-E689.
  • Past矇n-Zapata E, Jones JM, Moggridge H & Widmann M (2020) . Journal of Hydrology, 584.
  • Turner F, Wilkinson R, Buck C, Jones JM & Sime L (2020) . EGU General Assembly 2020.
  • Bracegirdle TJ, Colleoni F, Abram NJ, Bertler NAN, Dixon DA, England M, Favier V, Fogwill CJ, Fyfe JC, Goodwin I , Goosse H et al (2019) . Geosciences, 9(6).
  • Fogt RL, Schneider DP, Goergens CA, Jones JM, Clark LN & Garberoglio MJ (2019) . Climate Dynamics.
  • Fogt RL, Jones ME, Goergens CA, Solomon S & Jones JM (2018) . Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 99(10), 2143-2145.
  • Swindles GT, Galloway JM, Macumber AL, Croudace IW, Emery AR, Woulds C, Bateman MD, Parry L, Jones JM, Selby K , Rushby GT et al (2018) . Marine Geology, 403, 262-270.
  • Bateman MD, Rushby G, Stein S, Ashurst RA, Stevenson D, Jones JM & Roland Gehrels W (2018) . Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 43(4), 779-790.
  • Barrett HG, Jones JM & Bigg GR (2018) . Climate Dynamics, 50(9-10), 3131-3152.
  • Barrett HG, Jones JM & Bigg GR (2018) . Climate Dynamics, 50(3-4), 845-862.
  • Fogt RL, Goergens CA, Jones JM, Schneider DP, Nicolas JP, Bromwich DH & Dusselier HE (2017) . Geophysical Research Letters, 44(19), 9918-9927.
  • Hall RJ, Scaife AA, Hanna E, Jones JM & Erdelyi R (2017) . Weather and Forecasting, 32(4), 1585-1601.
  • Hall R, Jones JM, Hanna E, Scaife AA & Erd矇lyi R (2017) . Climate Dynamics, 48(11-12), 3869-3887.
  • Fogt RL, Jones ME, Solomon S, Jones JM & Goergens CA (2017) . Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 98(10), 2189-2200.
  • Jones JM, Gille ST, Goosse H, Abram NJ, Canziani PO, Charman DJ, Clem KR, Crosta X, de Lavergne C, Eisenman I , England MH et al (2016) . Nature Climate Change, 6, 917-926.
  • Douglas JS, Huss M, Swift DA, Jones JM & Salerno F (2016) . The Cryosphere Discussions.
  • Fogt RL, Jones JM, Goergens CA, Jones ME, Witte GA & Lee MY (2016) . Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 121(6), 2836-2856.
  • Fogt RL, Goergens CA, Jones ME, Witte GA, Lee MY & Jones JM (2016) . Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 121(6), 2814-2835.
  • Allan R, Endfield G, Damodaran V, Adamson G, Hannaford M, Carroll F, Macdonald N, Groom N, Jones J, Williamson F , Hendy E et al (2016) . Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 7(2), 164-174.
  • Allan R, Endfield G, Damodaran V, Adamson G, Hannaford M, Carroll F, Macdonald N, Groom N, Jones J, Williamson F , Hendy E et al (2016) . WIREs Climate Change, 7(2).
  • Hall R, Erd矇lyi R, Hanna E, Jones JM & Scaife AA (2015) . International Journal of Climatology, 35(8), 1697-1720.
  • Hannaford MJ, Jones JM & Bigg GR (2015) . Holocene, 25(2), 379-390.
  • Hannaford MJ, Bigg GR, Jones JM, Phimister I & Staub M (2014) . Environment and History, 20(3), 411-445.
  • Jones J (2012) . Nature Geoscience, 5(11), 764-765.
  • Fogt RL, Jones JM & Renwick J (2012) . JOURNAL OF CLIMATE, 25(18), 6253-6270.
  • Hanna E, Jones JM, Cappelen J, Mernild SH, Wood L, Steffen K & Huybrechts P (2012) . International Journal of Climatology.
  • Ackerley D, Lorrey A, Renwick JA, Phipps SJ, Wagner S, Dean S, Singarayer J, Valdes P, Abe-Ouchi A, Ohgaito R & Jones JM (2011) . Climate of the Past, 7(4), 1189-1207.
  • Ackerley D, Lorrey A, Renwick JA, Phipps SJ, Wagner S, Dean S, Singarayer J, Valdes P, Abe-Ouchi A, Ohgaito R & Jones JM (2011) Using synoptic type analysis to understand New Zealand climate during the Mid-Holocene. Climate of the Past Discussions, 7(2), 1301-1337.
  • Pr繹mmel K, Geyer B, Jones JM & Widmann M (2010) . International Journal of Climatology, 30(5), 760-773.
  • Jones JM, Fogt RL, Widmann M, Marshall GJ, Jones PD & Visbeck M (2009) . J CLIMATE, 22(20), 5319-5345.
  • Fogt RL, Perlwitz J, Monaghan AJ, Bromwich DH, Jones JM & Marshall GJ (2009) . J CLIMATE, 22(20), 5346-5365.
  • Wagner S, Widmann M, Jones J, Haberzettl T, L羹cke A, Mayr C, Ohlendorf C, Sch瓣bitz F & Zolitschka B (2007) . Climate Dynamics, 29(4), 333-355.
  • Schneider DP, Steig EJ, van Ommen TD, Dixon DA, Mayewski PA, Jones JM & Bitz CM (2006) . Geophysical Research Letters, 33(16).
  • Von Storch H, Zorita E, Jones J, Gonzalez-Rouco F & Tett S (2006) Response [2]. Science, 312(5782), 1872-1873.
  • von Storch H, Zorita E, Jones JM, Gonzalez-Rouco F & Tett SFB (2006) . Science, 312(5773), 529-529.
  • Von Storch H, Zorita E, Jones J, Gonzalez-Rouco F & Tett S (2006) Testing climate reconstructions - Response. SCIENCE, 312(5782), 1872-1873.
  • Pr繹mmel K, M羹ller B, Widmann M & Jones J (2005) Comparison of a high-resolution regional simulation and the ERA40 reanalysis over the Alpine Region. Hrvatski Meteoroloski Casopis(40), 369-372.
  • Groll N, Widmann M, Jones JM, Kaspar F & Lorenz SJ (2005) . Journal of Climate, 18(19), 4032-4045.
  • Jones JM & Widmann M (2004) . Nature, 432(7015), 290-291.
  • von Storch H, Zorita E, Jones JM, Dimitriev Y, Gonzalez-Rouco F & Tett SFB (2004) . Science, 306(5696), 679-682.
  • Jones JM & Widmann M (2003) Instrument- and Tree-Ring-Based Estimates of the Antarctic Oscillation. Journal of Climate, 16(21), 3511-3524.
  • Mann ME, Bradley RS, Briffa K, Cole J, Hughes MK, Overpeck JT, Jones JM, von Storch H, Widmann M, Wanner H & Weber SL (2001) . Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 82(46), 553-553.
  • Jones JM & Davies TD (2000) . Climate Research, 14, 7-24.
  • Jones JM, Davies TD & Dorling SR (1995) Assessment of the use of principal components analysis to relate air and precipitation chemistry to climate. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, 85, 1569-1574.
  • Raphael MN, Marshall GJ, Turner J, Fogt RL, Schneider D, Dixon DA, Hosking JS, Jones JM & Hobbs WR () . Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 97(1), 111-121.
  • () .

Book chapters

  • Turner F, Wilkinson R, Buck C, Jones J & Sime L (2019) , Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics (pp. 175-182). Springer International Publishing
  • Christensen JH, Kanikicharla KK, Aldrian E, An SI, Albuquerque Cavalcanti IF, de Castro M, Dong W, Goswami P, Hall A, Kanyanga JK , Kitoh A et al (2013) , Climate Change 2013 the Physical Science Basis Working Group I Contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (pp. 1217-1308).
  • Schneider DP, Steig EJ, Ommen TDV, Dixon DA, Mayewski PA, Jones JM & Bitz CM (2009) (pp. 1-5). Wiley
  • Widmann M, Groll N & M. Jones J (2007) , Developments in Quaternary Sciences (pp. 517-526). Elsevier
  • Widmann M, Groll N & Jones JM (2006) Simulated teleconnections during the Eemian, the last interglacial inception, and the preindustrial period. In Sirocco F, Litt T & Claussen M (Ed.), The climate of past interglacials (pp. 517-525). Elsevier
  • Jones JM & Widmann M (2004) , GKSS School of Environmental Research (pp. 171-193). Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Other

  • Allan R, Endfield G, Damodaran V, Adamson G, Hannaford M, Carroll F, Macdonald N, Groom N, Jones J, Williamson F , Hendy E et al (2016) . WIREs Climate Change, 7(4), 614-614.

Preprints

  • Ing RN, Ely JC, Jones JM & Davies BJ (2023) , Copernicus GmbH.
  • Tuckett P, Ely J, Sole A, Livingstone S, Jones J, Lea J & Gilbert E (2022) , Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
  • Tuckett PA, Ely JC, Sole AJ, Lea JM, Livingstone SJ, Jones JM & van Wessem JM (2021) , Copernicus GmbH.
Teaching interests

I have taught at all levels from undergraduate through to postgraduate taught.  I currently teach on the following modules:

GEO113 Earth, Wind, Ice and Fire

GEO11005 Geographical skills, Methods and Techniques

GEO21011 Understanding the Climate System (module convenor)

GEO412: Current issues in Geography and Environmental Science

GEO3100 Employing Geography Skills in Sustainability and Social Justice (module convenor)

GEO356: Dissertation for Geography and Environmental Science

I also regularly teach on:

GEO11004: Why Geography Matters

GEO21012: Unlocking Past Environmental Changes

GEO6807: Understanding Environmental Change

GEO6809: Managing Climate Change

GEO6669 Polar and Alpine Change Research Project