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Jorge Garcia-Franco

Graduate Student

Research theme

  • Climate physics

Sub department

  • Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics

Research groups

  • Climate dynamics
jorge.garcia-franco@physics.ox.ac.uk
Atmospheric Physics Clarendon Laboratory, room 113
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About

I studied a BSc in Earth Sciences at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México with a specific interest in atmospheric and climate science.

In particular, I developed an interest in phenomena of the tropical atmosphere such as monsoons and tropical cyclones. I did an MRes at the University of Leeds with a thesis on tropical cyclone intensification as seen by the dropwindsonde observations.

Now, I am a student of Prof Lesley Gray and Dr. Scott Osprey on a project that aims to understand the imapact of stratospheric quasi-biennial oscillation on the tropical circulation and the american monsoon system.

DPhil Project

Title: The american monsoon system: climate variability and teleconnections.

Aims

  • Understanding model biases in current state-of-the-art general circulation models.
  • Characterizing the onset and retreat of regional monsoons.
  • Diagnosing the processes associated with the Midsummer drought of southern Mexico and Central America.
  • Determining the role of the stratospheric quasi-biennial oscillation for the tropical circulation and the American monsoon system.

 

Research interests

Monsoons, climate dynamics, tropical convection

Selected publications

A wavelet transform method to determine monsoon onset and retreat from precipitation time‐series

International Journal of Climatology Wiley 41:11 (2021) 5295-5317
Jorge L García‐Franco, Scott Osprey, Lesley J Gray

The American monsoon system in HadGEM3 and UKESM1

Weather and Climate Dynamics Copernicus Publications 1:2 (2020) 349-371
Jorge L García-Franco, Scott Osprey, Lesley J Gray

Revisiting gradient wind balance in tropical cyclones using dropsonde observations

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society Wiley 147:735 (2020) 801-824
Jorge Garcia-Franco, Juliane Schwendike
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