Meteorology Department News
Professor Anthony Illingworth Awarded RMS Mason Medal
Professor Anthony Illingworth, Emeritus Professor of Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, has been awarded the Mason medal of the Royal Meteorological Society. The Mason medal is the premier award bestowed by the Society for "outstanding contributions to the understanding of the fundamental processes that determine the variability and predictability of weather and climate".
March 2010
RMS L.F. RICHARDSON Award for Andy Turner
Dr Andy Turner has been awarded the LF Richardson Award of the Royal Meteorological Society. It is awarded annually for an outstanding paper published in the preceding four years in the Quarterly Journal, International Journal of Climatology, Meteorological Applications or Atmospheric Science Letters by a member of the Society who was under the age of 35 at the time of submission. Andy's citation says that:
"....It is generally regarded that the most serious impacts of climate change will be felt through the volatility of the monsoon system rather than through changes in the mean rainfall. Dr Turner's contribution in this challenging area has been outstanding and he has made a very significant contribution to the literature through a series of outstanding papers in the Quarterly Journal and ASL...."
March 2010
Scientists in Climate Change Sign Up
Many scientists from the Department sign up to statement from the UK science community issued (9/12/10): "We, members of the UK science community, have the utmost confidence in the observational evidence for global warming and the scientific basis for concluding that it is due primarily to human activities........" Read full statement
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6950783.ece
Quote on 'Wall Street'
Professor Nigel Arnell of The Walker Institute for Climate System Research quoted in the Wall Street Journal (16/02/2010)
"The IPCC has also cited a study by British climatologist Nigel Arnell claiming that global warming could deplete water resources for as many as 4.5 billion people by the year 2085"
Letters to the Newspapers
Kathy Maskell of Walker Institute for Climate System Research has letters in The Observer and the Reading Evening Post
Climate change: Sceptics fiddle while the planet burns
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2010/jan/31/big-issue-climate-change
The Burning Issue of Climate Change
http://www.getreading.co.uk/blogs/andanotherthing/s/2066277_burning_issue_of_climate_change