News and events
- 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 1.5oC 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)