Owen K. Hughes

Ph.D. Candidate in Climate Science, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering.

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1546 Climate and Space Research Building

2455 Hayward St

Ann Arbor, MI 48109

I’m a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Climate and Space Sciences at the University of Michigan, working in computational atmospheric science at both weather and climate scale.

research interests:

  • Intermediate-complexity test cases for Atmospheric General Circulation Models
  • Dynamics of the deep atmosphere; impact of the non-traditional Coriolis terms.
  • High-resolution climate modeling in CESM and E3SM
  • Uncertainty Quantification in Earth System Models

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Jan 14, 2026 I will be attending EGU 2026 in Vienna, Austria. If you’re interested in my research, please shoot me an email and we can drink bad conference coffee together.
Apr 15, 2025 During the summer of 2025 I was a graduate visitor at the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, working under Dr. Peter H. Lauritzen.

selected publications

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    Learning non-stationary Langevin dynamics from stochastic observations of latent trajectories
    Mikhail Genkin, Owen Hughes, and Tatiana A Engel
    Nature communications, 2021
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    The fully coupled regionally refined model of E3SM version 2: Overview of the atmosphere, land, and river results
    Qi Tang, Jean-Christophe Golaz, Luke P Van Roekel, and 8 more authors
    Geoscientific model development, 2023
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    A mountain-induced moist baroclinic wave test case for the dynamical cores of atmospheric general circulation models
    Owen K Hughes and Christiane Jablonowski
    Geoscientific model development, 2023