Dr Peter Hill : UK Met Office : UoR, Dept Of Meteorology

UK Met Office

Between 2007 and 2015, I worked for the UK Met Office. At the Met Office I developed the Edwards-Slingo radiative transfer scheme (now known as SOCRATES) that calculates radiative fluxes and heating rates in the Met Office Unified Model that is used for weather and climate prediction.

My research was primarily focused on the representation of clouds in the radiation scheme and led to several publications. I also obtained a PhD titled Representing cloud structure in the radiation scheme of the Met Office model, which was co-supervised by Prof. Robin Hogan at the University of Reading and Dr. James Manners at the Met Office.

I continue to use SOCRATES in my ongoing research. The code is available from the Met Office through their Science Repository Service