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Prof Colin Jones

(CGAM) at the University of Reading. He has a PhD in Tropical Cyclone modelling from the University of East Anglia and a BSc in Geophysical Sciences. He was a NOAA Postdoctoral Fellow in Climate change based at Colorado State University.  External recognition Colin is former co-chair of the WCRP

Adam Clayton

that are now used within the operational forecasting system. The control of gravity waves was also the subject of Adam's MSc dissertation, completed at the University of Reading with the support of the Met Office. In 2004, Adam moved to the Met Office Hadley Centre to join the UK-Japan Climate

Dr Martin Best

in the commercial side of the Met Office working on business development in the energy sector. Martin completed an MSc at the department of Meteorology at the University of Reading in 1996 as part of his training within the Met Office and a PhD in urban meteorology at King’s College London in 2015. External

ukcp18-newsletter.nov21.pdf

consultations relevant to your sector or area of expertise. • Review any reading materials before meetings. • Participating in events and/or developing of materials for sharing knowledge and use cases. • Reaching out to their networks to increase the reach of the UG. Full details of the UG purpose, membership

Dawn Harrison

in meteorology at Reading University (1992). In 1993, Dawn moved to the Observations Products group and worked on the development of Nimrod, an automated nowcasting system. More recently Dawn has worked on weather radar product development, concentrating on improving the estimation of precipitation. Dawn has

Rick Rawlins

teams contributing to further developments of NWP. This included a research group at Reading University alongside a number of international collaborations. The group also had responsibility for the core software of observation processing and data assimilation as incorporated both for operational systems and for research activities. In 2017, now part-time, Rick moved to his current role of managing the coupled NWP global model implementation project.

Doug Johnson

Office in 1973 and was initially in the operations area undertaking observing and forecasting duties at Shoeburyness, Stansted and London Weather Centre before getting his BSc in Meteorology at Reading University in 1980. On return from University he worked in the Observations area being involved

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£11m programme to improve extreme weather forecasting

researchers from the Universities of Exeter, Leeds, Reading, Imperial College, Manchester and the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. Collectively the projects will: Carry out observations of atmospheric turbulence using radar, cameras, drones and aircraft measurements Study how atmospheric turbulence

metoffice_forecastingfactbusters_primary_final.pdf

even untrue, to get more people reading the story. Illustrate this point by playing the forecasting fact-busters film. Ask pupils what the consequence of this can be, using the points raised in the film as inspiration (e.g. if people are wrongly informed or given a ‘false picture’ of what

How wind speeds are measured by the Met Office

obstacles. For accurate and consistent readings, the ideal site for wind measurement is over level ground with uniform roughness and no large obstructions within 300 metres of the measuring tower. While it can be hard for each station to meet these criteria perfectly, most locations in the observing

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