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Professor M.E. McIntyre
Career
- 2008-present Emeritus Professor, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
- 1993-2008 Professor of Atmospheric Dynamics, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
- 1992-2003 Co-director, Cambridge Centre for Atmospheric Science
- 1991 Co-founder of the Cambridge Summer School in Geophysical and Environmental Fluid Dynamics, and lecturer therein on "Fundamental concepts and processes", 1991-2006
- 1987-1993 Reader in Atmospheric Dynamics, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
- 1972-1987 University Lecturer, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
- 1969-1972 Assistant Director of Research in Dynamical Meteorology, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
- 1967-1969 Postdoctoral research associate with Jule G. Charney and Norman A. Phillips, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research
Michael McIntyre is a member of the Atmospheric Dynamics and Astrophysical research groups in DAMTP. His recent research has been mainly in atmosphere-ocean dynamics and solar magnetohydrodynamics. He is best known for his work on the terrestrial stratosphere and ozone layer, and on the relevant mathematical theory. He has also had a longstanding interest in perception and cognition, arising partly from the problem of visualizing atmospheric flows while relating them to abstract theoretical concepts, and partly from interests in musical performance, musical composition and musical acoustics. In collaboration with James Woodhouse and Robert Schumacher he has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of the musically relevant behaviour of bowed string instruments. A spinoff has been a series of essays on "lucidity principles" and related scientific issues. He has given invited lectures on the deepest connections between mathematics and music.
Main honours
- 1999 Julius Bartels Medal of the European Geosciences Union (then European Geophysical Society)
- 1999 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 1990 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1990 Fellow of the American Meteorological Society
- 1989 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 1987 Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal of the American Meteorological Society
Selected Publications
There are links on the home page and in the Atmospheric Dynamics group's publications list