• 2019 Distinguished Edith Morley Seminar Wednesday 23^rd October 2019. Speaker: Gwyneth Stallard
• Professor Jonathan Gregory receives BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
• The impact of moist processes on weather forecasts, 5th OpenIFS User Meeting, University of Reading, 17-21 June 2019 (in collaboration with ECMWF)
• Professor Paul Williams runner up in NERC Societal Impact Award for work on in-flight turbulence following stiff competition from research on microplastics
• Watch University public lecture by Ed Hawkins: Climate change: past, present & future

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IN THE NEWS

2019

• Earliest UK weather records could hold key to predicting future climate
• A century and half of reconstructed ocean warming offers clues for the future

2018

• • Mysterious giant dust particles found at gravity-defying distances
  • COP24: UN talks have an opportunity to align rules with their long-term temperature goal
  • Wet season changes under future climate change could harm ‘vulnerable’ Africa (see schematic)

• • Scientists from the department attend the UN COP24 climate meeting in Katowice, Poland
  • Professor Paul Williams contributes to UN-style climate negotiations for school students
  • Vulnerability to heat unacceptably high and rising – new Lancet report featuring Professor Nigel Arnell
  • AURORAS UNLOCK THE PHYSICS OF ENERGETIC PROCESSES IN SPACE
  • Weather forecasts from outer space could help keep Earth safe
  • Professor Ed Hawkins awarded Royal Society Kavli Medal for his contributions to understanding and communicating climate science

• Research Engagement and Impact Awards for Professor Paul Williams and also Professor Ed Hawkins and Stephen Burt
• Red sky in sight shows charging at height
• Professor Graeme Stephens elected FRS – and RMetS awards to Meteorology staff announced
• Atlantic circulation ‘slowdown’ study hints at future climate disruption
• Six Meteorology scientists named as lead authors in upcoming IPCC climate change assessment
• More sting jet storms likely due to global warming
• TAMSAT rainfall data helping over a million farmers weather drought in Zambia
• Limiting global temperature rise to 1.5^oC would avoid 60-95% of climate change impacts

2017

• Study discovers why global warming will accelerate as CO₂ levels rise
• Outlook Fine For Summer Seasonal Weather Forecasts
• A new effort aims to recover meteorology data collected by a group of hardy Victorian Scottish scientists

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Our Changing Climate: Past, Present and Future – Public Lecture by Professor Ed Hawkins in the Palmer Building, Wednesday 17th October (View lecture)