Strawberries, Ice Cream And Climate Statistics
LOCATION
School of GeoSciences
The University of Edinburgh, Grant Institute
The Kings Buildings, West Mains Road
Edinburgh
EH9 3JW
UK
SPEAKER | Dr Mark McCarthy, Met Office
ABSTRACT | Summer 2018 was the joint hottest summer on record for the UK, being statistically indistinguishable from 2006, 2003 and 1976. The Met Office National Climate Information Centre (NCIC) collates UK observations as part of its remit to provide a national memory of the weather and climate. In this talk I will delve into the detail of what has proven to be a remarkable summer, describing the work of the NCIC team and how we develop and maintain historical climatological datasets. Along the way I will also touch on some of the interesting stories that these historical archives can illuminate, from unseasonal fruit to unfortunately placed ice cream vans.
BIOGRAPHY | Mark joined the Met Office Hadley Centre in 1999, where he spent the first seven years years of his career working in the climate monitoring and attribution team studying observational records of the variability and change in atmospheric water vapour. In that time he also completed a PhD at Imperial College London on the same topic. He then moved to the climate impacts group to research urban climate impacts, specifically understanding how regional and global climate change are expressed through the urban heat island. He has been actively involved in a wide range of projects from the Amazon to the Indian monsoon utilising developments in the land surface scheme within regional and global climate models. Mark returned to the climate monitoring and attribution team in October 2012.
Venue Information
The meeting will be held in the Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh, Drummond Street, EH8 9XP, Please note that the talk will be given in the Ogilvie Room and NOT the Lecture Theatre.starting at 6 pm, with tea and biscuits available from 5:30 pm. There is no entry to the building after 6 pm.
Registration
REGISTRATION HAS CLOSED.
This meeting is part of the Royal Meteorological Society Meetings programme, open to all, from expert to enthusiast, for topical discussions on the latest advances in weather and climate. Free to attend. Non members are welcome.
SPEAKER | Dr Mark McCarthy, Met Office
ABSTRACT | Summer 2018 was the joint hottest summer on record for the UK, being statistically indistinguishable from 2006, 2003 and 1976. The Met Office National Climate Information Centre (NCIC) collates UK observations as part of its remit to provide a national memory of the weather and climate. In this talk I will delve into the detail of what has proven to be a remarkable summer, describing the work of the NCIC team and how we develop and maintain historical climatological datasets. Along the way I will also touch on some of the interesting stories that these historical archives can illuminate, from unseasonal fruit to unfortunately placed ice cream vans.
BIOGRAPHY | Mark joined the Met Office Hadley Centre in 1999, where he spent the first seven years years of his career working in the climate monitoring and attribution team studying observational records of the variability and change in atmospheric water vapour. In that time he also completed a PhD at Imperial College London on the same topic. He then moved to the climate impacts group to research urban climate impacts, specifically understanding how regional and global climate change are expressed through the urban heat island. He has been actively involved in a wide range of projects from the Amazon to the Indian monsoon utilising developments in the land surface scheme within regional and global climate models. Mark returned to the climate monitoring and attribution team in October 2012.
Venue Information
The meeting will be held in the Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh, Drummond Street, EH8 9XP, Please note that the talk will be given in the Ogilvie Room and NOT the Lecture Theatre.starting at 6 pm, with tea and biscuits available from 5:30 pm. There is no entry to the building after 6 pm.
Registration
REGISTRATION HAS CLOSED.
This meeting is part of the Royal Meteorological Society Meetings programme, open to all, from expert to enthusiast, for topical discussions on the latest advances in weather and climate. Free to attend. Non members are welcome.