Staff Profile

Qualifications

PhD in Earth Sciences, University of Leeds, 1990-1994
BSc in Geophysics, University of Edinburgh, 1986-1990

Memberships

Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society
Member of the American Geophysical Union

Research Interests

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Geophysical and astrophysical fluid dynamics and magnetohydrodynamics (MHD):

Kinematic dynamos
The geodynamo and geomagnetism
Other planetary dynamos
Galactic magnetic fields

• Articles

  • Tharakkal D, Shukurov A, Gent FA, Sarson GR, Snodin A. Steady states of the Parker instability: the effects of rotation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2023, 525(2), 2972-2984.
  • Tharakkal D, Shukurov A, Gent FA, Sarson GR, Snodin AP, Rodrigues LFS. Steady states of the Parker instability. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2023, 525(4), 5597-5613.
  • Tharakkal D, Snodin AP, Sarson GR, Shukurov A. Cosmic rays and random magnetic traps. Physical Review E 2023, 107, 065206.
  • Hollins JF, Sarson GR, Evirgen CC, Shukurov A, Fletcher A, Gent FA. Mean fields and fluctuations in compressible magnetohydrodynamic flows. Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics 2022, 116(4), 261-289.
  • Mason SJ, Guervilly C, Sarson GR. Magnetoconvection in a rotating spherical shell in the presence of a uniform axial magnetic field. Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics 2022, 116(5-6), 458-498.
  • Gent FA, Mac Low M-M, Kapyla MJ, Sarson GR, Hollins JF. Modelling supernova-driven turbulence. Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics 2019, 114(1-2), 77-105.
  • Rodrigues LFS, Snodin A, Sarson G, Shukurov A. Fickian and non-Fickian diffusion of cosmic rays. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2019, 487(1), 975-980.
  • Käpylä MJ, Gent FA, Väisälä MS, Sarson GR. The supernova-regulated ISM III. Generation of vorticity, helicity, and mean flows. Astronomy and Astrophysics 2018, 611, A15.
  • Seta A, Shukurov A, Wood TS, Bushby PJ, Snodin AP. Relative distribution of cosmic rays and magnetic fields. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2018, 473(4), 4544-4557.
  • Hollins JF, Sarson GR, Shukurov A, Fletcher A, Gent FA. Supernova-regulated ISM. V. Space and Time Correlations. Astrophysical Journal 2017, 850(1), 4.
  • Butters OJ, Sarson GR, Bushby PJ. Effects of magma-induced stress within a cellular automaton model of volcanism. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 2017, 341, 94-103.
  • Rodrigues LFS, Sarson GR, Shukurov A, Bushby PJ, Fletcher A. The Parker instability in disk galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal 2016, 816(1), 2.
  • Snodin AP, Shukurov A, Sarson GR, Bushby PJ, Rodrigues LFS. Global diffusion of cosmic rays in random magnetic fields. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2016, 457(4), 3975-3987.
  • Shukurov A, Sarson G, Videiko M, Henderson K, Shiel R, Dolukhanov P, Pashkevich G. Productivity of Premodern Agriculture in the Cucuteni-Trypillia Area. Human Biology 2015, 87(3), 235-282.
  • Shukurov A, Sarson G, Videiko M, Henderson K, Shiel R, Dolukhanov P, Pashkevich G. Productivity of Premodern agriculture in the Cucuteni–Trypillia area. Human Biology 2015, 87(3), 235-238.
  • Gangal K, Sarson GR, Shukurov A. The Near-Eastern Roots of the Neolithic in South Asia. PLoS One 2014, 9(5), e95714.
  • Henderson DA, Baggaley AW, Shukurov A, Boys RJ, Sarson GR, Golightly A. Regional variations in the European Neolithic dispersal: the role of the coastlines. Antiquity 2014, 88(342), 1291-1302.
  • Gent FA, Shukurov A, Fletcher A, Sarson GR, Mantere MJ. The supernova-regulated ISM - I. The multiphase structure. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2013, 432(2), 1396-1423.
  • Baggaley AW, Boys RJ, Golightly A, Sarson GR, Shukurov A. Inference for population dynamics in the Neolithic period. Annals of Applied Statistics 2012, 6(4), 1352-1376.
  • Baggaley AW, Sarson GR, Shukurov A, Boys RJ, Golightly A. Bayesian inference for a wave-front model of the neolithization of Europe. Physical Review E 2012, 86(1), 016105.
  • Ryan DA, Sarson GR. A coupled low order dynamo/turbulent shell model for geomagnetic field variations and reversals. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 2011, 188(3-4), 214-234.
  • Patterson MA, Sarson GR, Sarson HC, Shukurov A. Modelling the Neolithic transition in a heterogeneous environment. Journal of Archaeological Science 2010, 37(11), 2929-2937.
  • Dolukhanov P, Shukurov A, Davison K, Sarson G, Gerasimenko N, Pashkevich G, Vybornov A, Kovalyukh N, Skripkin V, Zaitseva G, Sapelko T. The spread of the neolithic in the south east european plain: Radiocarbon chronology, subsistence, and environment. Radiocarbon 2009, 51(2), 783-793.
  • Plunian F, Sarson GR, Stepanov R. Deciphering solar turbulence from sunspots records. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters 2009, 400(1), L47-L51.
  • Ryan DA, Sarson GR. The geodynamo as a low-dimensional deterministic system at the edge of chaos. Europhysics Letters 2008, 83(4), 49001.
  • Ryan DA, Sarson GR. Are geomagnetic field reversals controlled by turbulence within the Earth's core?. Geophysical Research Letters 2007, 34(2), L02307.
  • Davison K, Dolukhanov P, Sarson GR, Shukurov A. The role of waterways in the spread of the Neolithic. Journal of Archaeological Science 2006, 33(5), 641-652.
  • Shukurov A, Sarson GR, Nordlund A, Gudiksen B, Brandenburg A. The effects of spiral arms on the multi-phase ISM. Astrophysics and Space Science 2004, 289(3-4), 319-322.
  • Sarson GR, Nordlund A, Gudiksen B, Shukurov A, Brandenburg A. Self-regulating supernovae heating in interstellar medium simulations. Astrophysics and Space Science 2004, 292(1-4), 267-272.
  • Sarson GR. Kinematic dynamos driven by thermal-wind flows. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 2003, 459(2033), 1241-1259.
  • Brandenburg A, Blackman EG, Sarson GR. How magnetic helicity ejection helps large scale dynamos. Advances in Space Research 2003, 32(10), 1835-1844.
  • Brandenburg A, Sarson GR. Effect of hyperdiffusivity on turbulent dynamos with helicity. Physical Review Letters 2002, 88(5), 055003.
  • Sarson GR. Reversal models from dynamo calculations. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 2000, 358(1768), 921-942.
  • Sarson GR, Jones CA, Zhang K. Dynamo action in a uniform ambient field. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 1999, 111(1-2), 47-68.
  • Sarson GR, Jones CA. A convection driven geodynamo reversal model. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 1999, 111(1-2), 3-20.
  • Sarson GR, Busse FH. The kinematic dynamo action of spiralling convective flows. Geophysical Journal International 1998, 133(1), 140-158.
  • Zhang K, Jones CA and Sarson GR. The dynamical effects of hyperviscosity on numerical geodynamo models. Studia Geophysica et Geodetica 1998, 42(3), 247-253.
  • Sarson GR, Jones CA, Longbottom AW. Convection driven geodynamo models of varying Ekman number. Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics 1998, 88, 225-259.
  • Sarson GR, Jones CA, Longbottom AW. The influence of boundary region heterogeneities on the geodynamo. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 1997, 101(1-2), 13-32.
  • Sarson GR, Jones CA, Zhang K, Schubert G. Magnetoconvection dynamos and the magnetic fields of Io and Ganymede. Science 1997, 276, 1106-1108.
  • Sarson GR, Gubbins D. Three-dimensional kinematic dynamos dominated by strong differential rotation. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 1996, 306, 223-265.
  • Gubbins D and Sarson G. Geomagnetic field morphologies from a kinematic dynamo model. Nature 1994, 368(6466), 51-55.

• Book Chapter

  • Carrer F, Sarson G, Baggaley A, Shukurov A, Angelucci DE. Ethnoarchaeology-Based Modelling to Investigate Economic Transformations and Land-Use Change in the Alpine Uplands. In: Saqalli, M; Vander Linden M, ed. Integrating Qualitative and Social Science Factors in Archaeological Modelling. Springer International Publishing, 2019, pp.185-216.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)

  • Brandenburg A, Blackman EG, Sarson GR. How magnetic helicity ejection helps large scale dynamos. In: Magnetic Helicity at the Sun, In Solar Wind and Magnetospheres: Vistas from x-ray Observatories. 2003, Houston, Texas, USA: Pergamon.

• Letter

  • Gent FA, Shukurov A, Sarson GR, Fletcher A, Mantere MJ. The supernova-regulated ISM - II. The mean magnetic field. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2013, 430(1), L40-L44.