PhD Opportunities in Atmospheric Science in United Kingdom

This 36-month PhD project at the University of St Andrews investigates how atmospheric circulation responds to global warming and how those responses affect regional climate and weather extremes. The research will use a hierarchy of numerical climate simulations to study circulation across multiple scales, from global jet streams to regional thunderstorm systems. By analyzing multi-member ensembles and prescribed sea-surface-temperature experiments, the project will distinguish rapid adjustments...

The Yorkshire Environmental Sciences Doctoral Training Network (YES-DTN) is recruiting more than 26 fully funded PhD scholars for environmental science research projects in the United Kingdom. Projects are hosted by the University of Leeds and the University of York , bringing together research schools and departments across environmental and natural sciences. The network’s research spans Dynamic Earth and Natural Hazards , Atmosphere and Climate , and Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity . Parti...

[Funding covers fees plus a stipend per annum for 2026/7; stipend amount stated as £21,805.] University of Exeter offers a PhD studentship in Physics-Aware Graph Neural Networks for Robust Short-Term Visibility Forecasting at the Penryn Campus in the United Kingdom. This project addresses the challenge of forecasting low-visibility events for safe and efficient transport, especially aviation. The research will develop physics-aware spatio-temporal graph neural networks (STGNNs) for 0–6 hour visi...

University of Southampton is advertising a PhD project in planetary climate physics focused on a major open question in giant-planet atmospheres: how giant storms form and how heat is redistributed across fast-rotating planets . The project will use the OASIS computational model to run advanced three-dimensional climate simulations of Jupiter and Jupiter-like planets. Research topics include atmospheric physics , cloud physics , turbulence , atmospheric circulation , and the development of large...

University of Southampton is advertising a competition-funded PhD project titled “Tracing cloud formation pathways across Earth’s atmospheric history.” The project sits in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences and is based in the School of Physics & Astronomy . This research explores how clouds influenced Earth’s climate through time, including how the planet remained habitable under a fainter young Sun and whether cloud–atmosphere interactions could have triggered abrupt climate tran...

[Fully funded studentship covering fees, maintenance stipend of £21,805 p.a. for 2026/27, and a research training and support grant (RTSG). International applicants may be considered, with the difference between home and international fees waived; relocation, visa, and health surcharge costs are not covered.] This PhD studentship at the University of East Anglia explores how atmospheric CO2 polyisotopologues can reveal new information about Earth’s carbon cycle across land, oceans, and the atmos...

PhD opportunity in Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences at the University of Edinburgh , within the School of GeoSciences and the Global Change Research Institute . This research degree focuses on major global challenges including climate change , environmental hazards , and sustainability , with projects spanning interactions across the atmosphere, biosphere, cryosphere, land, and oceans. Research methods may include fieldwork , remote sensing , GIS , climate modelling , satellite data analys...

PhD opportunity at the University of Edinburgh in Enhanced predictability of European weather extremes via machine learning . This project asks whether European heatwaves, floods, and other extreme weather events can be predicted further ahead than current forecasting systems allow. The research combines deep learning , atmospheric dynamics , and climate science to study ocean-atmosphere signals in the Pacific and Atlantic, including persistent patterns such as Rossby waves and blocking. The PhD...

New PhD opportunity in the University of Birmingham group of Francis Pope , in collaboration with the Met Office and Christian Offen (University of Birmingham School of Mathematics). The project is titled AI-Enabled Prediction of UK Pollen Season Magnitude for Next-Generation Forecasting . It is a CASE studentship with the Met Office and includes additional funding plus the chance to work directly with Met Office scientists and spend time embedded with the organisation. This PhD sits at the inte...