This week 12 BSc and MMet students from Reading, along with 5 staff and 36 students and staff from the University of Leeds are here in Lochranza on Arran for a weeklong residential field course. The students will be involved in various activities including a hill walk, radiosonde and ozonesonde launches, boundary layer sampling with [...]

Wednesday (4th August 2010) night, sky-watchers as far south as Denmark and northern Germany were treated to a glimpse of the aurora – unfortunately it didn’t extend far enough to be lost in the bright lights of Reading. This geomagnetic activity was the result of a pair of solar eruptions on August 1st, recorded in [...]

Welcome to the new WCD blog. We hope this test run will help us to see how useful a blogging service will be and how we might make best use of this technology. This term there will be 10 guest bloggers, who will write a blog about WCD each week. The schedule for the summer [...]