{"id":1111,"date":"2017-12-08T10:02:35","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T10:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/?page_id=1111"},"modified":"2026-03-16T15:01:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:01:03","slug":"news-and-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/news-and-events\/","title":{"rendered":"News and events"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong><code><\/code>DEPARTMENTAL SEMINARS<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Click the link for our <a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/seminars\/\">seminar programmes<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"make-link-button-next\" style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/news-and-events\/seminars\/#Monday\" name=\"monday-seminar\">Monday Departmental Seminars<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"make-link-button-next\" style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/seminars\/#Tuesday\" name=\"monday-seminar\">Tuesday Lunchtime Seminars<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"make-link-button-next\" style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/news-and-events\/seminars\/wcd\/\" name=\"Friday-WCD\">Friday Weather and Climate Discussion<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/home\/research-blogs\/\"><strong>READ OUR LATEST RESEARCH BLOGS<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Check out our latest departmental blogs:<\/p>\n<p class=\"make-link-button-next\" style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reading.ac.uk\/weather-and-climate-at-reading\" name=\"department-blog\">Departmental research Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"make-link-button-next\" style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocialmetwork.wordpress.com\/\" name=\"social-metwork\">PhD student Social Metwork blog<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong><code><\/code><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/\">LATEST NEWS<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-timeline\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UniRdg_Met?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-width=\"400\" data-height=\"400\">Tweets by UniRdg_Met<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>LATEST RESEARCH NEWS<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2026\/University-News\/Reading-and-Met-Office-renew-their-mission-to-protect-the-planet\">Department plays a leading role in renewal of parnership with the Met Office<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>The University of Reading is one of just eight universities to have been selected as a partner in the <a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/met-office-academic-partnership\/\">Met Office Academic Partnership<\/a>, continuing a relationship that has shaped some of the most important advances in weather and climate science. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2026\/University-News\/Poet-Laureate-wanders-lonely-as-a-cloud-to-Reading\">Poet Laureate wanders lonely as a cloud to Reading<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2026\/University-News\/Poet-Laureate-wanders-lonely-as-a-cloud-to-Reading\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/poet-stephen\/\" alt=\"Poet Laureate Simon Armitage with Stephen Burt on the Met observatory\"><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage, achieved a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/uk\/environment\/article\/simon-armitage-weather-rain-poem-reading-university-gnvj9vx09?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=AWEtsqfi6c_xH0QbwP2fQN0M_LEYMTUNA5Z8fCNtadKF-ExCbGnv049OMhxXNe337wk%3D&amp;gaa_ts=69b42704&amp;gaa_sig=RavzNSUVBfT6otegC6dMKc9lapeIwXyl3q3IxmrHDKICRnbbDLZJku8BRWJTha57qCpoBH1qAdWRnvftHLKtuA%3D%3D\">longstanding ambition<\/a> this week as he became the latest University of Reading daily weather observer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2026\/Expert-Comment\/Rain-for-31-days-straight-shatters-records-as-flood-risks-grow\">Rain for 31 days straight breaks records as flood risks grow<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2026\/University-News\/Major-IPCC-workshops-bring-diverse-climate-voices-to-Reading\">Important IPCC workshops hosted in Met and University of Reading<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) hosted two major international workshops at the University of Reading in February 2026 which included a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9MhuUmv2GCM\">public lecture<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2026\/Research-News\/Europes-crop-droughts-to-get-worse-even-as-rain-increases\">Emerging hotspots of agricultural drought under climate change<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reading.ac.uk\/weather-and-climate-at-reading\/2026\/emerging-hotspots-of-agricultural-drought-under-climate-change\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/01\/Black-blogF1.jpg\" alt=\"pictrure of crop drought\" width=\"256\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41561-025-01898-8\">new study in Nature Geoscience<\/a> by Emily Black has assessed how <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reading.ac.uk\/weather-and-climate-at-reading\/2026\/emerging-hotspots-of-agricultural-drought-under-climate-change\/\">hotspots in crop droughts are emerging<\/a> by using novel techniques to sample moisture in the soil available for plants<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/portal.reading.ac.uk\/staff\/all-news\/2026\/january\/Mathew-Owens-awarded-Chapman-Medal\">Space weather forecaster awarded special Society medal<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Our very own <a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/people\/mathew-owens\/\">Matt Owens<\/a> has beed awarded the prestigious <a href=\"https:\/\/ras.ac.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-01\/Chapman%20Medal%20%28G%29%20-%20Professor%20Mathew%20Owens%20.pdf\">Chapman Medal by the Royal Astronomical Society<\/a> for work developing rapid space weather forecasts that help to protect satellites, navigation &amp; communication systems, power grids and much more through knowledge of how the solar wind will influencing Earth over coming days<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2025\/Research-News\/UKs-worst-case-climate-risks-laid-bare-for-lawmakers\">UK\u2019s worst-case climate risks laid bare for lawmakers<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>A departmental study led by <a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/people\/nigel-arnell\/\">Nigel Arnell<\/a> mapped out  <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1029\/2025EF006946\" class=\"broken_link\">the most serious plausible climate threats facing the UK over the coming decades<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2025\/Research-News\/Monsoon-storms-will-bring-heavier-rains-but-become-weaker\">Monsoon storms will bring heavier rains but become weaker<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1175\/JCLI-D-25-0389.1\">New research<\/a> from the department used 13 climate models to understand how warming temperatures will affect monsoon low-pressure systems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2025\/Research-News\/Record-warmth-only-possible-due-to-human-caused-emissions\">Record warmth only possible due to human-caused emissions<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/people\/christopher-merchant\">Chris Merchant<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/people\/richard-allan\">Richard Allan<\/a> contributed to the <a href=\"https:\/\/10insightsclimate.science\/\">study<\/a> which is being presented at <a href=\"https:\/\/futureearth.org\/2025\/10\/29\/10-new-insights-in-climate-science-for-2025\/\" class=\"broken_link\">COP30<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/royalsociety.org\/news\/2025\/11\/solar-radiation-modification\/\">Solar radiation modification could reduce global temperatures but is no substitute for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, says Royal Society<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Keith Shine, Chair of the <a href=\"https:\/\/royalsociety.org\/news-resources\/projects\/solar-radiation-modification\/\">Royal Society report<\/a>\u2019s working group, said:\n<p>\u201cUnless there is a significant shift in our mitigation strategies, we are on track to breach the 1.5\u00b0C Paris Agreement warming goal in the near future. Both SRM and unmitigated climate change carry significant risks, and the key challenge is to understand those risks in detail and assess them side-by-side, not in isolation.<br \/>\n\u201cThis is not a question of whether SRM is safe, as it is clearly not without risks. However, there may come a point where those risks are seen to be less severe than the risks of insufficiently mitigated climate change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf policy makers did take the decision to deploy SRM, a scientifically informed, globally coordinated and internationally agreed upon strategy would be essential both to achieve global cooling and avoid potentially large undesirable regional climate impacts.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2025\/Research-News\/Global-Carbon-Budget-University-of-Reading-2025\">Fossil fuel CO2 emissions hit record high in 2025<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Patrick McGuire, from the University of Reading, contributed to the <a href=\"https:\/\/essd.copernicus.org\/preprints\/essd-2025-659\/\">Global Carbon Budget 2025 report<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2025\/Research-News\/Severe-storm-forecasts-set-to-improve-with-new-satellite\">Severe storm forecasts set to improve with new satellite<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2025\/Research-News\/Severe-storm-forecasts-set-to-improve-with-new-satellite\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/-\/media\/news\/images\/tiles\/2025\/anthony-illingworth-small-1.png?h=185&amp;w=320&amp;hash=28F20FCF77BE4799643AE1CEAB1331D9\" alt=\"Anthony Illingworth looking up at the sky\" width=\"256\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anthony Illingworth&#8217;s WIVERN mission has been selected as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Applications\/Observing_the_Earth\/FutureEO\/ESA_selects_WIVERN_as_11th_Earth_Explorer_mission\">European Space Agency\u2019s 11th Earth Explorer Mission. <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2025\/Research-News\/UK-air-quality-improved-since-2015-but-targets-still-missed\">UK air quality improved since 2015 but targets still missed<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Air pollution across the UK dropped between 2015 and 2024, but dangerous levels are still reached too often, shows <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1039\/D5EA00055F\">new research<\/a> by James Weber and Helen Dacre<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2025\/Research-News\/Air-pollution-cuts-in-East-Asia-likely-accelerated-global-warming\">Air pollution cuts in East Asia likely accelerated warming<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s43247-025-02527-3\">New research<\/a> involving Laura Wilcox finds the clean up of particle pollution across East Asia caused more sunlight to reach the oceans as clouds became less reflective, combining with rising greenhouse gases to accelerate warming of climate since around 2010<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c07dxm8v0yro\">Building work on European weather centre headquarters next to Meteorology well underway<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Building of the new ECMWF headquarters is due to complete in 2027 and combined with Meteorology and our other centres and departments will form the world\u2019s largest cluster of weather &amp; climate research and operational forecasting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2025\/University-News\/Staff\/Climate-education-champion-awarded-OBE\">Prestigious awards in the King&#8217;s Birthday Honours List<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Our head of school, Andrew Charlton-Per\u00e9z, has been awarded an OBE in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/the-kings-birthday-honours-list-2025\/birthday-honours-list-2025-pm-list-transparency-data-html\">The King&#8217;s Birthday Honours List 2025<\/a> for Services to Climate Science and to Education! Also picking up an OBE was Jolene Cook, Head of Climate Science &#8211; International and UK IPCC Focal Point at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, who gained her PhD in the Met department, for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegazette.co.uk\/notice\/4906061\">Services to International Climate Science<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2025\/Research-News\/How-Germanys-2021-floods-could-have-been-even-worse\">How Germany\u2019s 2021 floods could have been even worse<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s43247-025-02386-y\">new study<\/a> involving Hannah Cloke explores alternative storylines for the catastrophic German flooding of 2021, of importance in planning for flooding in a warming world, helping society to imagine dangerous, but plausible, scenarios.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2025\/Research-News\/Climate-Station-shares-Readings-stripes-and-science\">Climate scientists helped transform complex climate data into an immersive experience<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>A new Virtual Reality experience, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2025\/Research-News\/Climate-Station-shares-Readings-stripes-and-science\">Climate Station<\/a>, puts gamers face-to-face with our changing planet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2025\/University-News\/Staff\/Professor-Sue-Grimmond-FRS-elected-Fellow-of-Royal-Society\">Urban meteorologist elected Fellow of the Royal Society<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Our very own <a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/people\/sue-grimmond\/\">Sue Grimmond<\/a> has been elected as a prestigious <a href=\"https:\/\/royalsociety.org\/people\/sue-grimmond-37369\/\">Fellow of the Royal Society<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"make-link-button-next\" style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/earth-system-prediction\/fellowship-opportunities-2025\/\" name=\"Fellowship opportunities\">Fellowship Opportunities 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2025\/Research-News\/Electric-cloud-research-joins-UK-climate-cooling-programme\">Electric cloud research joins UK climate cooling programme<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Scientists at the University of Reading will research whether releasing electric charge into clouds could help increase their reflectivity as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aria.org.uk\/opportunity-spaces\/future-proofing-our-climate-and-weather\/exploring-climate-cooling\/\">Exploring Climate Cooling programme<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2025\/Research-News\/Solar-wave-squeezed-Jupiters-magnetic-shield-to-unleash-heat\">Solar Wave Squeezed Jupiter&#8217;s Magnetic Shield to Unleash Heat<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1029\/2024GL113751\">new analysis in Geophysical Research Letters<\/a> led by James O&#8217;Donoghue<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2025\/Research-News\/Ocean-surface-warming-four-times-faster-now-than-late-1980s\">Ocean-surface warming four times faster now than late-1980s<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Level of global warmth in 2023-2024 can only be explained by an acceleration of human caused climate change based on <a href=\"http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1088\/1748-9326\/adaa8a\">new analysis in Environmental Research Letters<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2025\/Research-News\/Heatwaves-could-worsen-as-soil-moisture-changes---study\">Heatwaves could worsen as soil moisture changes<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Reinhard Schiemann contributed to the <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-025-56109-0\">new study in Nature Communications<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2025\/University-News\/Climate-stripes-show-how-2024-reached-1-point-5c-warming\">Climate stripes show how 2024 reached 1.5\u00b0C warming<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/showyourstripes.info\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/-\/media\/news\/images\/tiles\/2024\/research-news\/2024-stripes.png\" alt=\"Climate stripes updated to 2024\" width=\"128\" height=\"96\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/showyourstripes.info\/\">climate stripes graphic<\/a> has been updated by it&#8217;s creator Ed Hawkins to include the record warm 2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2025\/Research-News\/Met-Office-BBC-Weather-apps-compared-which-is-best\">Met Office vs BBC Weather \u2013 which weather app is best?<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Rob Thompson led a study suggesting that the Met Office weather app is best temperature forecasts but the BBC Weather app superior for predictions of rain<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2024\/University-News\/Met-Office-chief-celebrated-for-life-saving-science-contributions\">Honorary doctorate awarded to Met Office chief<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/12\/ceremony_3-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/12\/ceremony_3-scaled-e1734341923479.jpg\" alt=\"Penny Endersby receives honourary doctorate from Vice-Chancellor Robert Robert Van de Noort\" width=\"256\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Penny Endersby CBE was commended at the University\u2019s winter graduation ceremony on Friday, 13 December with help from Met Office Chair Helen Dacre.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bis-space.com\/what-we-do\/honours-and-awards\/arthurs\/\">Anthony Illingworth wins the British Interplanetary Society Sir Arthur Clarke Award<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>The award was scooped by Anthony Illingworth for long-time promotion and support of ESA\u2019s EarthCARE mission, launched in May 2024, to improve understanding of cloud, aerosols particles and radiative energy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2024\/University-News\/Atmospheric-scientist-wins-Institute-of-Physics-award \">Nicolas Bellouin receives Institute of Physics 2024 Edward Appleton Medal and Prize<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iop.org\/about\/awards\/2024-edward-appleton-medal-and-prize\">award<\/a> was for pioneering use of satellite observations and simulations to quantify climate impacts of atmospheric particles on Earth\u2019s climate through advancing understanding of their interaction with sunlight, clouds and vegetation (<a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/people\/nicolas-bellouin\/\">Nicolas Bellouin&#8217;s website<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2024\/University-News\/Reading-named-Sunday-Times-Sustainable-University-of-the-Year-2025\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/09\/B32904-Times-web-graphics-HM-v-2-PPT-AND-LIBRARY-e1726830013714.jpg\" alt=\"Graphic showing the University of Reading being named Sustainable University of the Year in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025\" width=\"489\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2024\/Research-News\/Extreme-weather-to-strengthen-rapidly-over-next-two-decades\">Extreme weather to strengthen rapidly over next two decades<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>More <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41561-024-01511-4\">new research<\/a> involving Laura Wilcox highlights how three quarters of the global population can expect strong and rapid changes in extreme temperatures and rainfall in the next 20 years unless greenhouse gas emissions are cut dramatically.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2024\/Research-News\/2023-record-heat-came-from-global-warming-and-weather-variations\">2023 record heat from global warming and weather variations<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s43247-024-01637-8\">New research<\/a> involving Laura Wilcox has found that the surge in global surface temperature in 2023 can be explained by the unusual weather patterns combined with the steady global warming caused by human activities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/2024-research-awards\/\">Staff recognised at 2024 Research Awards<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Thomas Wilder picked up an Early Career <a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/research-output-prize-2024-thomas-wilder\/\">Research Output Prize<\/a> for new insights into ocean circulation while Richard Allan was runner up in Public Engagement with Research for <a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/inspiring-action-on-climate-change-through-engaging-science\/\">Inspiring action on climate change through engaging science<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2024\/Research-News\/Top-weather-research-awards-for-Reading-climate-science-pair\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/-\/media\/news\/images\/tiles\/2024\/research-news\/andy-rob.png?h=185&amp;w=320&amp;la=en&amp;hash=9591C13078712E227C7C51D580E3AEFA\" alt=\"Andrew Turner received The Buchan Award for Scientific Advances and Rob Thompson received The Michael Hunt Award for Increasing Public Understanding of Meteorology and its Applications\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2024\/Research-News\/Top-weather-research-awards-for-Reading-climate-science-pair\">Top weather research awards for Reading climate science pair<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Andrew Turner received The Buchan Award for Scientific Advances and Rob Thompson received The Michael Hunt Award for Increasing Public Understanding of Meteorology and its Applications in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rmets.org\/news\/2023-royal-meteorological-society-award-winners-announced\">2023 RMetS awards<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ras.ac.uk\/news-and-press\/news\/space-scientist-becomes-new-ras-president\">Mike Lockwood made president of Royal Astronomical Society<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Mike Lockwood, our intrepid professor of Space Environmental Physics, becomes the new <a href=\"https:\/\/ras.ac.uk\/news-and-press\/news\/space-scientist-becomes-new-ras-president\">president of the Royal Astronomical Society<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emetsoc.org\/ems-silver-medal-2024-for-sue-grimmond\/\">EMS Silver Medal 2024 for Sue Grimmond<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Our very own Sue Grimmond has picked up the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emetsoc.org\/awards\/award-category\/ems-silver-medal\/\">European Meteorological Society Silver Medal<\/a> for an exceptional scientific career, marked by pioneering contributions to the field of urban meteorology, leadership in the meteorological community, and impact in operations for weather and climate modelling.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2024\/Research-News\/Cloud-engineering-could-be-painkiller-for-global-warming\">Aerosol particle pollution may have increased cloud and offset global warming more than expected<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>New <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41561-024-01427-z\">research in Nature Geoscience<\/a> used the volcanic plume from a Hawaii volcano as a laboratory to improve understanding of how tiny aerosol particles affect cloud<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2023\/Research-News\/Extreme-weather-in-net-zero-world-the-focus-of-new-research\">Extreme weather in net-zero world the focus of new research<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>A new project led by Andrea Dittus is already improving understanding of what a net zero world will look like with <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1029\/2023GL107448\">reversal of European summer precipitation decline in a stabilizing climate<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uk.emb-japan.go.jp\/itpr_en\/240509amb_00002.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/05\/Japan_Prize-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Brian Hoskins greeted by Japan ambassador\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a> <i>Above: Brian Hoskins is greeted by Ambassador Hayashi<\/i><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.japanprize.jp\/en\/prize_prof_2024_hoskins.html\">Brian Hoskins receives Japan Prize<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Sir Professor Brian Hoskins was awarded the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japanprize.jp\/en\/index.html\">Japan Prize<\/a> for establishment of a scientific foundation for understanding and predicting extreme weather events<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2023\/University-News\/Reading-first-in-sustainable-universities-league-table\">University of Reading tops sustainable universities league table<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>The University of Reading has been ranked as the number one university in the UK in the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/peopleandplanet.org\/university-league\">People &amp; Planet University League table<\/a> and was recognised for managing carbon emissions, providing climate education resources and a sustainable food policy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.com\/news\/times-higher-education-awards-2023-winners-announced\">University of Reading win THE award for Outstanding Contribution to Environmental Leadership<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/12\/THEaward23.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/12\/THEaward23-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"University of Reading representatives collect THE award\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>University of Reading &#8220;Planet Partners&#8221; scoops the <a href=\"https:\/\/flipbooks.timeshighereducation.com\/19712\/103874\/index.html?87861\">Times Higher Education award<\/a> for leading collaboration on climate action and impact including world-leading scientific research and global policy impact, with a strong contribution from the department<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecmwf.int\/en\/about\/media-centre\/news\/2023\/looking-aspects-ecmwfs-weather-model-can-be-improved\">Ex-Reading student helps ECMWF improve model<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Rebecca Emerton, previously an MMet and PhD student in the department, is now part of a team that strives to improve ECMWF\u2019s weather model by looking for the causes of errors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/more-severe-wet-and-dry-extremes-as-rapid-warming-of-climate-continues\/\">More wet and dry extremes<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>New research from the department shows <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1088\/1748-9326\/acea36\">a growing severity of wet and dry extremes<\/a> which inlcude <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2023\/Research-News\/Flash-droughts-will-double-due-to-climate-change\">more rapid onset &#8220;flash&#8221; droughts<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2023\/University-News\/RMetS-awards-for-University-weather-experts\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rmets.org\/sites\/default\/files\/news\/awards_2022.png\" alt=\"Collage of RMetS award winners\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2023\/University-News\/RMetS-awards-for-University-weather-experts\">Royal Meteorological Society Awards for our Scientists<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><em>David Brawshaw<\/em> receives the Adrian Gill Award, <em>Ed Hawkins<\/em> the Hugh Robert Mill Award, <em>Bryan Lawrence<\/em> the Award for Innovation in Development of Computational Models, Tools or Visualisation and <em>Roger Brugge<\/em> the Award for Outstanding Contribution to The Society or Profession. Congratulations to all award recipients (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rmets.org\/news\/rmets-award-winners-2022\">full list<\/a>)!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2023\/University-News\/White-Cliffs-of-Dover-display-climate-stripes\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/-\/media\/news\/images\/tiles\/2023\/university-news\/showyourstripes-whitecliffs-2.png?h=185&amp;w=320&amp;la=en&amp;hash=079813286ACD39F919494DB27AC4A29A\" alt=\"Climate warming stripes projected onto White Cliffs of Dover\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2023\/University-News\/White-Cliffs-of-Dover-display-climate-stripes\">Warming stripes projected onto The White Cliffs of Dover as a stark climate change message<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>The iconic climate stripes, created by our very own Ed Hawkins to depict progressive warming of climate, were projected onto The White Cliffs of Dover, The Tate Modern chimney and landmarks in Reading, the USA and Canada on Wednesday, 21 June, to mark <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2023\/University-News\/Show-Your-Stripes-Day-2023-roundup\">Show Your Stripes<\/a> Day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2023\/Research-News\/Summer-rain-mystery-to-be-investigated-with-balloon-squadron\">Summer rain mystery to be investigated with balloon squadron<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Thorwald Stein leads research in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/research\/foundation\/observational-studies\/wessex-convection-experiment\">WesCon<\/a> Observing the Evolving Structures of Turbulence project<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2023\/Research-News\/Aviation-turbulence-strengthened-as-the-world-warmed\">Aviation turbulence strengthened as the world warmed<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Mark Prosser led work published in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1029\/2023GL103814\">Geophysical Research Letters<\/a> showing observed worsening of clear air turbulence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2023\/University-News\/Staff\/Helen-Dacre-Met-Office-Joint-Chair\">Met Office partnership lead appointed<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/stories\/helen-dacre\">Professor Helen Dacre<\/a> has been appointed as Met Office Joint Chair \u2013 a key role in the University\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2022\/Research-News\/University-partners-with-Met-Office-to-further-climate-change-research\">partnership with the Met Office.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2023\/Research-News\/Patrick-McGuire-University-of-Reading-land-carbon-stores\">Climate \u2018spiral\u2019 threatens land carbon stores<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>The world\u2019s forests are losing their ability to absorb carbon due to increasingly \u2018unstable\u2019 conditions caused by humans activities according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41586-023-05725-1\">new study in Nature<\/a>, with contributions from our very own <a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/people\/patrick-mcguire\/\">Patrick McGuire<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2023\/Research-News\/Tropical-storms-caused-by-atmospheric-waves\">Tropical storms signalled by atmospheric waves<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Identifying westward-moving atmospheric wave disturbances near the equator can help to improve forecasts of destructive tropical cyclones up to 2 weeks ahead according to <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-023-36055-5\">new research<\/a> from the Meteorology department<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2022\/University-News\/THE-STEM-project-award\">Greener flights work wins science prize at Times Higher Education Awards<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Work by Paul Williams and Nancy Nichols as part of a project to cut carbon emissions by using hard maths to better direct aircraft across the Atlantic has been named as the <a href=\"https:\/\/the-awards.co.uk\/2022\/en\/page\/winners\">THE awards<\/a> best UK science project of 2022<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2022\/University-News\/THE-STEM-project-award\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11271\" src=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/-\/media\/news\/images\/tiles\/2022\/university-news\/paul-williams.png\" alt=\"THE22\" width=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2022\/Research-News\/Aerosols-should-be-taken-seriously\">Take climate-changing aerosols seriously, scientists say<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Scientists, including Laura Wilcox from the department and NCAS Climate, have <a>called for <\/a> a more heightened consideration of the the uncertainties related to particle aerosol pollution in climate risk assessment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2022\/Research-News\/Salt-important-for-sea-ice-formation\">Salt more important than temperatures in sea ice formation<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/sciadv.abq0793\">New research in Science Advances<\/a> from the department and University of Gothenburg is improving understanding of sea ice formation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2022\/Research-News\/Powerful-hurricanes-get-second-wind-in-Europe\">Powerful hurricanes get second wind in Europe<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1175\/MWR-D-22-0111.1\"> New research<\/a> led by Elliott Sainsbury has found that stronger hurricanes that are reenergised by jet stream winds are twice as likely to cross the Atlantic and wreak havoc in Europe than weaker ones<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2022\/University-News\/Cocoa-and-climate-expertise-showcased-to-Nicaragua-diplomats\">Cocoa and climate expertise showcased to Nicaragua diplomats<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S_N1jwOez-I\">Running Out Of Time Relay 2022<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Students, staff and the local community turned up on campus to show their support for Professor Ed Hawkins and Professor Peter Miskell who took part in the &#8216;Running Out Of Time&#8217; Relay on Friday 7 October 2022; helping to deliver a message of climate action as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/bhOK50L4BVF\">University of Reading&#8217;s contributions to tackle human-caused climate change<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\">Reading in top 200 Universities globally and 4th best for Atmospheric Sciences<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>The department has helped the University of Reading into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.com\/world-university-rankings\/2023\/world-ranking\">Times Higher Education top 200 Universities 2023 list<\/a> and scored as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shanghairanking.com\/rankings\/gras\/2022\/RS0108\" class=\"broken_link\">4th best for Atmospheric Sciences in the 2022 Shanghi Rankins<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2022\/Research-News\/University-partners-with-Met-Office-to-further-climate-change-research\">Continued and strenthened partnership with Met Office will further climate research<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>The department is central to a renewed and strengthened <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/research\/approach\/collaboration\/met-office-academic-partnerships\">Met Office Academic Partnership (MOAP)<\/a> as part of an expanded initiative to understand the increasing impacts of extreme weather and climate change.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2022\/Research-News\/How-Atlantic-air-alters-Indias-food-and-water-supply\">Fluctuations in Atlantic weather patterns found to impact India\u2019s food and water supply<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>New <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s00382-022-06450-7\">research<\/a> led by Kieran Hunt has for the first time indentified a causal link between the North Atlantic Oscillation and winter precipitation over the Western Himalaya, of great importance to the year-round water supply for Indian agriculture<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><strong>Department scientist wins prestigious American Meteorological Society Award<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Our very own Jonathan Gregory is the deserved 2023 recipient of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ametsoc.org\/index.cfm\/ams\/about-ams\/ams-awards-honors\/awards\/awards-for-outstanding-contributions\/the-syukuro-manabe-climate-research-award\/\">Syukuro Manabe Climate Research Award<\/a> for outstanding contributions to the fundamental understanding of Earth\u2019s climate system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-62490130\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11272\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/976\/cpsprodpb\/42E7\/production\/_126272171_mediaitem126272170.jpg\" alt=\"BBC news article showing view from within the research aircraft\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2022\/Research-News\/Arctic-flights-investigate-sea-ice-and-storms-link\">Climate Scientists Chase Arctic Cyclones<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Researchers from the University of Reading are involved in an important <a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/arctic-summertime-cyclones\/\">field campaign<\/a> to understand how summertime Arctic cyclones affect, and are affected by, sea ice and their role in the rapidly changing climate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2022\/University-News\/REF-Results-2021\">World leading research environment<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Our research environment is classified as world leading and we rank 3rd in the country for research power across Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences in the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/research\/impact\/REF-2021\">Research Excellence Framework assessment (REF2021)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/research\/impact\/REF-2021\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11271\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/05\/Climate-3-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"REF2021\" width=\"192\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/05\/Climate-3-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/05\/Climate-3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/05\/Climate-3-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/05\/Climate-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/05\/Climate-3-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/05\/Climate-3-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/05\/Climate-3-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11272\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/05\/Climate-100-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/05\/Climate-100-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/05\/Climate-100-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/05\/Climate-100-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/05\/Climate-100-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/05\/Climate-100-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/05\/Climate-100-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/05\/Climate-100-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2022\/University-News\/University-meteorology-building-renamed-Brian-Hoskins\">The Meteorology building has been renamed the Hoskins Building<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Our department building has been named after Professor Sir Brian Hoskins. A member of the University of Reading since 1971, including as Head of the Department of Meteorology between 1990-96, Sir Brian began the Department\u2019s growth into the major global force it is today. It was under his leadership that the conception, planning and construction of the Meteorology Building that will bear his name began.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2022\/Research-News\/Hunga-Tonga-volcano-created-biggest-ever-explosion\">Hunga Tonga volcano created biggest explosion on record<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Department scientists contributed to research <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/science.abo7063\">published in the journal Science<\/a> showing the Hunga Tonga volcano in the South Pacific created an explosion bigger than anything else ever recorded by modern geophysical equipment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2022\/Research-News\/Ozone-levels-ocean-warming\">Ozone may be heating the planet more than we realise<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Important <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41558-022-01320-w\">new research<\/a> involving Associate Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/people\/michaela-hegglin\/\">Michaela Hegglin<\/a> has revealed that changes to ozone levels in the upper and lower atmosphere were responsible for almost a third of the warming seen in ocean waters bordering Antarctica in the second half of the 20th century.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"text-size-40 m-text-size-30 row-margin-small text-weight-medium\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2022\/Research-News\/Rainfall-Rescue-records-publication\">Rescued Victorian rainfall data smashes former records<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Professor Ed Hawkins, Rainfall Rescue Project Lead, said:<\/strong> \u201cI am still blown away by the response this project got from the public. Transcribing the records required around 100 million keystrokes, yet what I thought would take several months was completed in a matter of days.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2022\/University-News\/Queens-Anniversary-Prize\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11202 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/03\/Rainfall-Rescue-gauge-1895_SC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/03\/Rainfall-Rescue-gauge-1895_SC.jpg 320w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/03\/Rainfall-Rescue-gauge-1895_SC-300x173.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2022\/University-News\/Queens-Anniversary-Prize\">Department&#8217;s climate change research helps secure Queen\u2019s Anniversary Prize<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>The University of Reading was presented with a prestigious Queen\u2019s Anniversary Prize in a ceremony at St James\u2019s Palace in London attended by joint head of the Department, Professor Joy Singarayer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2022\/University-News\/Queens-Anniversary-Prize\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/-\/media\/news\/images\/tiles\/2022\/qap2_sc.jpg?h=185&amp;w=320&amp;hash=7B9263F454160BD091978FE47A491F2B\" alt=\"Professor Joy Singarayer receiving Queen's Anniversary Prize\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2022\/feb\/08\/have-we-finally-found-the-recipe-for-making-rain\">How does electric charge in cloud affect rain?<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1098\/rspa.2021.0714\">New research<\/a> led by Department of Meteorology professors advances understanding of how electric charge influences cloud drop growth that can ultimately lead to rainfall<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news-and-events\/releases\/PR862395.aspx\">New home for ECMWF on University of Reading campus<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecmwf.int\/\">European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)<\/a> will move to a new state-of-the-art, energy-efficient headquarters on the University of Reading campus, joining us to create the world&#8217;s largest cluster of weather and climate research and operational forecasting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news-and-events\/releases\/PR861285.aspx\">New maps of future climate risk in the UK<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Future risks from climate change affecting the UK have been mapped in a <a href=\"https:\/\/uk-cri.org\/\">new interactive website<\/a> as part of work led by Prof. Nigel Arnell<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news-and-events\/releases\/PR859910.aspx\">Professor Keith Shine elected as prestigious American Geophysical Union Fellow<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eos.org\/agu-news\/2021-class-of-agu-fellows-announced\">Prof. Keith Shine was elected for his outstanding achievements and contributions in advancing science in the area of how human activity affects Earth\u2019s climate<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news-and-events\/releases\/PR859697.aspx\">New research suggests climate simulations may underestimate the impact of climate change<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Reading researchers, led by Dr Christopher O\u2019Reilly, have found that climate models may be underestimating the impact climate change will have on the UK and North America due to a missing element &#8211; wind variability.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news-and-events\/releases\/PR859277.aspx\">Tropical crops could suffer as climate change brings longer dry spells<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1175\/JHM-D-21-0017.1\">Research<\/a> led by Dr Caroline Wainwright investigates how tropical wet and dry seasons change as climate warms<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.ametsoc.org\/view\/journals\/hydr\/22\/9\/full-JHM-D-21-0017.1-f12.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/full-jhm-d-21-0017-1-f12\/\" alt=\"Future changes in wet and dry seasons\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong style=\"color: 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