Professor Paul Williams
Professor of Atmospheric Science
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Responsibilities:
- Professor of Atmospheric Science
- Head of Department
Research Interests:
- Small-scale features in the atmosphere and ocean
- Clear-air turbulence
- Aviation meteorology
- Numerical modelling and time-stepping
- Stochastic parameterisation
Research Projects:
- Improving predictive climate models through stochastic parameterization (Royal Society URF)
- New insights into atmospheric turbulence (Royal Society research grant)
- Philip Leverhulme Prize in Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Postdoctoral & graduate student supervision:
- Dr Martin Airey is a postdoc working on atmospheric sensors.
- Dr Nicola Howe is a postdoc working on stochastic eddy parameterisation in ocean models.
- Dr Keri Nicoll is NERC Knowledge Exchange Fellow working with the aviation and radiosonde industries.
- Mr Luke Storer is a graduate student working on aviation turbulence.
- Miss Julie Chenery is a graduate student working on ocean modelling.
- Mr Graeme Marlton is a graduate student working on atmospheric turbulence measurements.
Other interests:
- Editor of Geophysical Research Letters
- Science communication
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Last update: 9th December 2024
