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SUMMARY:Development of Climate Science - Professor Dame Julia Slingo\, Met
  Office
DTSTART:20150213T173000Z
DTEND:20150213T183000Z
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CONTACT:Janet Gibson
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\n\nIt could be argued that over the last 20 years cli
 mate science has become synonymous with global warming\, but there is so m
 uch more to climate science than just climate change. At its roots it is a
 bout understanding how the various components of the climate system - the 
 atmosphere\, oceans\, land surface and ice - work together to give us the 
 regional climates we experience around the world. This lecture will presen
 t a personal perspective of how climate science has evolved from meteorolo
 gy and oceanography\, through the application of theory\, observations and
  modeling\, to deliver the understanding we now have of how our climate sy
 stem works and why climate change is arguably one of the greatest challeng
 es facing us in the 21st century.\n\nBiography\n\nJulia Slingo became Met 
 Office Chief Scientist in February 2009 where she leads a team of over 500
  scientists working on a very broad portfolio of research that underpins w
 eather forecasting\, climate prediction and climate change projections. Si
 nce joining the Met Office Julia has sought to integrate the UK community 
 in weather and climate research to ensure that the UK receives maximum ben
 efit from its science investments. She has strengthened the NERC/Met Offic
 e Joint Weather and Climate Research Programme to secure the UK’s nation
 al capability in observations\, modelling and supercomputing\, and set in 
 place a unique Academic Partnership with leading universities including Ex
 eter University to advance cutting edge research and bring more of their s
 cience through to impact.\nBefore joining the Met Office Julia was the Dir
 ector of Climate Research in NERC's  National Centre for Atmospheric Scien
 ce\, at the University of Reading. In 2006 she founded the Walker Institut
 e for Climate System Research at Reading\, aimed at addressing the cross d
 isciplinary challenges of climate change and its impacts.\nJulia has had a
  long-term career in atmospheric physics and climate science\, working at 
 the Met Office\, the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts\, 
 and the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the USA.\nThroughout h
 er career she has brought innovative approaches to understanding and model
 ling weather and climate. She has developed and used complex weather and c
 limate models to deliver new insights into how the atmosphere and climate 
 system works\, as well as significant advances in predictive skill.  Her s
 pecial interests are in tropical weather and climate variability\, underst
 anding their influence on the global climate system and their role in mont
 hly to decadal climate prediction.
LOCATION:LMH\, Lady Mitchell Hall
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