Michael Edgeworth McIntyre#
| Membership Number: | 447 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/mem http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/people/m.e.mcintyre |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-9297-4299 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 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
- 1963 Assistant Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Otago, New Zealand
Fields of Scholarship
- Bowed-string dynamics
- Atmosphere-ocean-planetary dynamics
- Wave-mean interaction
- Solar evolution
- Ozone layer
- Atmosphere-ocean jets
- Pleistocene swings in atmospheric carbon dioxide
- Global-scale atmospheric circulations
- Musical acoustics
- Large-scale turbulence
- Fluid dynamics
- Solar tachocline dynamics
- Applied mathematics
- Antarctic circumpolar current
- Science, Music, and Mathematics, deep connections
- Mathematics-music relations
- Lucidity principles
- Ocean storage of carbon dioxide
- Wave-vortex interaction
Honours and Awards
- 1968 - 1971 Research Fellowship, St John's College, Cambridge
- 1981 Adams Prize, University of Cambridge
- 1984 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Senior Visiting Fellow
- 1985 Stewartson Memorial Lecturer, University College London Victor P. Starr Memorial Lecturer, M.I.T.
- 1987 Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal (highest award of the American Meteorological Society)
- 1989 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 1990 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1990 Fellow of the American Meteorological Society
- 1991 Symons Memorial Lecturer of the Royal Meteorological Society
- 1992 Sectional Lecturer, IUTAM XVIIIth International Congress, Haifa
- 1992 - 1997 SERC/Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Senior Research Fellow
- 1995 Distinguished Sackler Lecturer, University of Tel Aviv
- 1999 Julius Bartels Medal of the European Geophysical Society
- 1999 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2003 Highly Cited Researcher of the Institute of Scientific Information, Geosciences category
- 2011 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
- 2013 Bernhard Haurwitz Memorial Lecturer of the American Meteorological Society
- 2018 Honorary Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society
- 2024 Symons Gold Medal and Lecture of the Royal Meteorological Society
