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Background Tom has been a member of the The Atmospheric Boundary Layer group within Atmospheric Processes and Parametrizations in 2012. In 2019 he moved to the Orography group. Before joining the Met Office Tom completed a PhD at Cranfield University on turbulent combustion modelling using direct numerical simulation, and continued working in this field for four years as a Research Associate (postdoc) at Cambridge University Engineering Department.
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
research, Laura co-supervises a PhD student, Marcel Meyer, in the Department of Plant Sciences at Cambridge University who is researching the spread of wheat rust diseases in East Africa. Career background From October 2006 to April 2016 Laura worked as part of the Atmospheric Dispersion and Air Quality
. To develop and improve NAME. Current projects MPI parallelisation of NAME. Improvements to the representation of effects of urban environments on dispersing plumes within NAME. Modelling of volcanic umbrella clouds within NAME. Ongoing validation of NAME against tracer experiments. Scientific collaboration and developments with a number of UK universities (e.g. Reading, Imperial College, Cambridge). Research on concentration fluctuations and buoyancy-driven flows.
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
in the EU H2020 project, CRESCENDO, leading activity to build and evaluate European climate models to ensure they as closely as possible simulate observed behaviour of the Earth system. Career background BA (Physics and Theoretical Physics), University of Cambridge, 1993 MSc (Weather and Climate Modelling
the previous one by a fraction of a degree. “However, yesterday we saw 39 stations across a large swathe of England exceed the previous highest daily temperature extreme, with the highest exceeding the previous record – set in Cambridge in July 2019 - by a remarkable 1.6°C. “A factor of the recent
cruise as part of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) and was a summer fellow at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. Helene obtained a first class degree in Mathematics from Cambridge University (Fitzwilliam College). External Recognition Helene is currently a member of the NEMO developers committee and the CLIVAR Ocean Model Development Panel (OMDP) and co-chaired this group from 2007 to 2008.
just over one half (53%) of the summer’s average rainfall. The Cambridge University Botanic Garden recorded an all-time high temperature of 38.7 °C on Thursday 25 July. Across the UK, the average temperature for July has been 1.2 °C above the long-term average for 1981-2010. However, parts of Eastern
temperature in the UK? 38.7 °C in Cambridge University Botanic Garden on 25 July 2019. 5. What is climate change? Climate change is a large-scale, long-term shift in Earth’s weather patterns, leading to increasing temperatures, rising sea levels and changes in nature. www.metoffice.gov.uk | 4 © Crown
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