{"id":218,"date":"2017-06-06T11:04:29","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T10:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-3\/?page_id=218"},"modified":"2025-10-22T10:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:57:11","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/met-spate\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-218\" class=\"panel-layout\">\n<div id=\"pg-218-0\" class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\">\n<div id=\"pgc-218-0-0\" class=\"panel-grid-cell\">\n<div id=\"panel-218-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-image panel-first-child panel-last-child\">\n<div class=\"so-widget-sow-image so-widget-sow-image-default-813df796d9b1\">\n<div class=\"sow-image-container\"><em>\u00a0A research group within the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"sow-image-container\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"sow-image-container\">Welcome to the Space and Atmospheric Electricity (SPATE) research group homepage. 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