Face to Face Events Are Back
‘You’re on mute’! Are you tired of that phrase yet? Then we have some excellent news for you…
After two years of virtual events, we are dusting off the name badges and clipboards, brewing the teas and preparing for our return to in-person events. We have missed seeing you!
The first Local Centre event will take place on 17 February, and the first National Meeting will be on 12 March. To read about how we will be keeping you safe, you can view our live event COVID policy here.
A Review of Extratropical Cyclones: Observations and Conceptual Models Over The Past 100 Years
Date
Thursday 17 February 2022
16:00 - 17:30
Location
University of Birmingham
Speaker
Professor Helen Dacre, Department of Meteorology, Reading University
Abstract
It is now just over 100 years since Jacob Bjerknes’ seminal 1919 paper ‘On the structure of moving cyclones’. The synoptic analysis methods developed in Bjerknes (1919) have been applied by national operational weather services worldwide, and the theoretical interpretation of cyclogenesis has led to much scientific research. Over the following century, new observing systems and advances in computational capabilities have enabled scientific research, which has greatly expanded and enriched our knowledge of extratropical cyclone structure and evolution. In this talk, Professor Dacre will describe the work by Bjerknes and review the research into extratropical cyclones that have followed.
History of Climate Science Ideas and their Applications
Date
Saturday 12 March 2022
10:30 - 17:30
Location
The Rag Army and Navy Club,
St James's
London
Climate change has recently risen even higher up the agenda with concerns about a Climate Emergency linked to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report on the need to keep global warming to 1.5°C above late nineteenth-century levels. The meeting is accordingly designed for a general audience as well as specialist attendees. It will review the development of key ideas about natural and anthropogenic climate change and significant modes of climate variability, from the Ice Ages to the possible future climate.
One of the primary purposes of the meeting is to bring these ideas together to review how climate science has contributed in recent decades to interactions between science and policy in the UK as concerns have steadily grown about anthropogenic climate change. This involves the interface between the accelerating developments in scientific understanding and policies for the mitigation of climate change and adaptation to it. The Met Office Hadley Centre, interacting widely with other scientists and policymakers, has played a pivotal role here. The meeting will end with a Discussion Panel consisting of leading experts who will review where we are and where we are going, partly through questions from the floor.