Earth · Planetary · Exoplanet Climates
Modelling climates across Earth, planets, and exoplanets.
I am Joao Mendonca, Associate Professor at the University of Southampton. I develop physically based, high-performance climate models to understand atmospheric circulation, climate evolution, and observable signatures across Earth, Solar System planets, and exoplanets.
Research themes
Atmospheric dynamicsHow circulation transports heat, momentum, and chemical species.
Climate evolutionWhy planetary climates diverge—and what controls their stability.
Worlds from dataConnecting physical models to remote observations of atmospheres.
Joao MendoncaAssociate Professor · University of Southampton
Core research platform
Explore OASIS ↗OASIS universal climate model
The computational foundation of my research: a modular 3D framework that couples the physical processes shaping climates across radically different planetary environments.
One frameworkMany planetary regimesTestable predictions
Coupled virtual-world solver for circulation, radiation, chemistry, and cloud feedbacks.
Atmospheric Dynamics
Radiation
Surface Physics
Cloud Physics/Thermodynamics
Chemistry/Biology
Ocean/Cryosphere