Overview

I am currently working as part of the Exeter Climate Systems group trying to better understand cloud feedback in Global Climate Models (GCMs). I am particularly interested in understanding how these mechanisms will change in the face of climate change and how to improve their characterisation in GCMs. 

I previously did a Masters by Research in Physics at the UoE, where I worked on adapting the Met Office Unified Model (UM) to the Martian climate system. This led to a publication and several presentations, including an invited talk at the Met Office. Prior to that, I studied a BSc in Zoology at the University of Exeter Penryn Campus. During this, my interests were ocean systems and phytoplankton in the Southern Ocean. My dissertation was on ice-phytoplankton interactions around Antarctica. 

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Publications

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2024

• McCulloch D, Lambert H, Webb M, Vallis G. (2024) Linking tropical large-scale circulation and deep convection to subtropical marine low-clouds in the Pacific Ocean, DOI:10.5194/egusphere-egu24-9705. [PDF]
• McCulloch D, Mayne N, Bate M, Sergeev D. (2024) Modelling an idealised Martian climate with the Unified Model: The next “giant leap” for Mars GCMs, DOI:10.5194/epsc2021-232. [PDF]

2023

• McCulloch D, Sergeev DE, Mayne N, Bate M, Manners J, Boutle I, Drummond B, Kohary K. (2023) A modern-day Mars climate in the Met Office Unified Model: dry simulations, DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2302.00359.

2022

• McCulloch D. (2022) The building blocks of the Martian atmosphere: Quantifying the influence of primary processes present in Mars’ climate.
• McCulloch D, Mayne N, Bate M, Sergeev D. (2022) Adapting an Earth Global Climate Model for a Modern-day Martian climate, DOI:10.5194/egusphere-egu22-7939. [PDF]
• McCulloch D, Sergeev D, Mayne N, Bate M, Manners J, Boutle I, Drummond B, Kohary K. (2022) A modern-day Mars climate in the Met Office Unified Model: dry simulations, DOI:10.5194/egusphere-2022-718. [PDF]

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