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• met-office-science-conference-2021---agenda-overview---speakersv7.pdf

  Richard Betts MBE, Met Office Keynote speakers Baroness Brown of Cambridge Julia King, Member of House of Lords Prof Dame Julia Slingo, Former Met Office Chief Scientist (retired) Panellists Prof Tim Benton, Chatham House Dr Pam Berry, Oxford University Prof Suraje Dessai, Leeds University Prof

• Professor Julian Hunt FRS remembered: a man with personal charisma, a lively style and authoritative scientific reputation

  and then as a collaborator and mentor for more than 25 years.”  Julian had a distinguished academic career at Cambridge as a lecturer and then professor in fluid dynamics in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. Lewis Fry Richardson, the forefather of numerical weather prediction, was his great

• met-office-science-conference-2021---agenda-overview---speakersv9pdf

  Richard Betts MBE, Met Office Keynote speakers Baroness Brown of Cambridge Julia King, Member of House of Lords Prof Dame Julia Slingo, Former Met Office Chief Scientist (retired) Panellists Prof Tim Benton, Chatham House Dr Pam Berry, Oxford University Prof Suraje Dessai, Leeds University Prof

• met-office-science-conference-2021---agenda-overview---speakersv9.pdf

  Richard Betts MBE, Met Office Keynote speakers Baroness Brown of Cambridge Julia King, Member of House of Lords Prof Dame Julia Slingo, Former Met Office Chief Scientist (retired) Panellists Prof Tim Benton, Chatham House Dr Pam Berry, Oxford University Prof Suraje Dessai, Leeds University Prof

• Dr Chris Harris

  and subsequently the Copernicus Marine Service. He took up his current post in the newly created Coupled Data Assimilation team in 2018. Prior to joining the Met Office, Chris completed a PhD in theoretical particle physics at the Department of Physics in the University of Cambridge, where he had also

• Dr Fiona O'Connor

  to joining the Met Office Hadley Centre, she worked on tropospheric chemistry modelling as a post-doctoral research associate at Cambridge University. Before that, she did a PhD at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth using observations and modelling to study stratospheric dynamics. Fiona also has a first class honours degree in Experimental Physics and an MSc in Environmental Chemistry from the National University of Ireland, Galway and Cork, respectively.

• David Sexton

  Centre in August 1993, after studying Maths at Cambridge University. David spent the first nine years working on detection and attribution of anthropogenic climate change. This period culminated in a PhD in 2001 on experimental design and statistical modelling of climate model experiments, done

• Dr Nigel Wood

  at Queens' College, Cambridge University. He was fortunate enough to then undertake a PhD, supervised jointly by Dr Paul Mason of the Met Office and Dr Alan Ibbetson of Reading University. The topic of his PhD was turbulent flow over three-dimensional hills, and the numerical model he developed

• UK Climate Resilience Programme infographics

  of uncertainty infographic (PDF document) UK socioeconomic scenarios for climate research and policy This project developed shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs) for the UK, to help answer key questions about the country’s resilience to climate change. The infographic below, developed by Cambridge Econometrics

• Atmospheric dispersion research and response

  and use of probabilistic dispersion forecasts. This involves quantifying the source, meteorological and impact uncertainties. Scientific collaboration and developments with a number of agencies (e.g. Public Health England) and UK universities (e.g., Reading, Bristol, Leeds and Cambridge). We are partners in the EUROVOLC project which aims to promote an integrated and harmonized European volcanological community.