Imperial College Lighthill Lecture 2016: Predicting weather and climate
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Channel: Imperial College London · 2016 · Science & Technology
The CDT in Fluid Dynamics across Scales welcomes Professor Sir Brian Hoskins to deliver this year's annual lecture. Abstract The nature of the prediction problem on time-scales of one day to one century will be considered. More predictability is possible than would be suggested by simple arguments because of both interactions with slower parts of the Earth system and the occurrence of robust phenomena that persist or evolve in a similar manner. Some examples of such phenomena that the speaker has worked on will be given, including a summary of some of the fluid mechanics involved. The talk will finish with a brief discussion of the status of climate change projection. Biography Sir Brian is Chair of the Grantham Institute at Imperial College London, having been its founding Director for six years, and Professor of Meteorology at the University of Reading, a position he has held since 1981. He has been involved in many international and national weather and climate activities, and is now on the Committee on Climate Change. He is a member of the Scientific Academies of the UK, USA and China, and has received the top awards of the UK and USA Meteorological Societies, the Buys Ballot Medal (awarded every decade) and the inaugural IUGG Gold Medal. He has honorary degrees from Bristol and UEA. In 2007, he was knighted for Services to Environmental Science.
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