Good morning Baltimore! AMS 2024
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Isabel Smith – i.h.smith@pgr.reading.ac.uk Hannah Croad – h.croad@pgr.reading.ac.uk In January 2024, Isabel Smith and Hannah Croad attended the 104th American Meteorological Society (AMS) annual meeting in Baltimore, Maryland. As fourth-year PhD students this was something of a “last hurrah” of our PhDs (with the remainder of our project monies and carbon budgets being used up), representing a fantastic opportunity to see the latest research happening in meteorology, meet other scientists working in our respective fields, and present our own work to a large audience at this late stage in ..read more
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POST fellowship at UK Parliament on carbon offsetting
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Helen Hooker – h.hooker@pgr.reading.ac.uk What is POST? The Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology (POST) is a research and knowledge exchange service at UK Parliament. POST uses the best available research evidence and information to inform the legislative process and scrutiny of Government. POST advisors and fellows create POSTnotes and POSTbriefs on hot topics of interest to MPs and peers (members of the House of Lords) that are published online. Members may use information from POST publications during committee meetings or debates in Parliament. The POSTnote process POST fellows ..read more
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SshRACC: The Making Of
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2M ago
Once upon a time, in the first week of term, last year’s panto organisers Jen Stout and Caleb Miller came to HP180 to ask if we (Catherine Toolan, Rosie Mammatt, and Hette Houtman) wanted to organise this year’s panto. Duty called, and we answered. We swiftly set out to start the preparations for this prestigious event.   We set week 3 as the deadline to decide what story we would parody (2 weeks behind schedule). Luckily, some brainstorming on the (slightly hungover) morning after last year’s panto afterparty had already produced a strong candidate: Shrek. We agreed that the plot would ..read more
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AGU in Sunny San Francisco
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Flynn Ames - f.ames@pgr.reading.ac.uk For my first (and given carbon budgets, possibly the last) in-person conference of my PhD, I was lucky enough to go to AGU (American Geophysical Union Conference) in December 2023, taking place in San Francisco, California. As my first time in America, there was a lot to be excited about. As my first time presenting at a conference, there was a lot to be nervous about. So what did I discover? To echo the previous year’s post: AGU is big. I mean really big. I mean seriously (please take me seriously) its huge. The poster hall was the size of an aircraft han ..read more
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The Weather Game
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Ieuan Higgs – i.higgs@pgr.reading.ac.uk It’s a colder-than-usual, early October Friday afternoon in the PhD offices of Brian Hoskins. The week is tired, motivation is waning and most importantly – Sappo is only 30 minutes away. As the collective mind of each office meanders further and further from work, someone inevitably pipes up with: “Has anyone done their weather game predictions this week?” Some mutterings might move around the room – grumbling about the unpredictability of rainfall in Singapore, or a verbal jab at the cold front that decided to move across Reading about 6 hours too ea ..read more
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WesCon 2023: From Unexpected Radiosondes to Experimental Forecasts
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Adam Gainford – a.gainford@pgr.reading.ac.uk Summer might seem like a distant memory at this stage, with the “exact date of snow” drawing ever closer and Mariah Carey’s Christmas desires broadcasting to unsuspecting shoppers across the country. But cast your minds back four-to-six months and you may remember a warmer and generally sunnier time, filled with barbeques, bucket hats, and even the occasional Met Ball. You might also remember that, weather-wise, summer 2023 was one of the more anomalous summers we have experienced in the UK. This summer saw 11% more rainfall recorded ..read more
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International symposium of data assimilation 2023
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Laura Risley – l.risley@pgr.reading.ac.uk The 9th international symposium of data assimilation (ISDA) was held in Bologna, Italy this October. Firstly, what is data assimilation? Data assimilation is the process of combining observed data with a numerical model. It also considers the errors present in both and produces the best estimate of the current state of the system. Data assimilation is used in various fields such as ocean modelling and numerical weather prediction. As such it has become an extremely important technique with high impact. ISDA is one of the largest gatherings of data assi ..read more
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Designing a program to improve data access for my PhD project
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Caleb Miller – c.s.miller@pgr.reading.ac.uk In my project work, I regularly need to load hundreds of various CSV (comma separated values) files with daily data from meteorological observations. For example, many of the measurements I use are made at the Reading University Atmospheric Observatory using the main datalogger, in addition to some of my own instruments. This data comes distributed across a number of different files for each day. Most of my analysis is done in Python using the Pandas library for data processing. Pandas can easily read in CSV files with a built-in function, and it is ..read more
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Scientists Acquitted: Examining the Role of Consent in Climate Activism 
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James Fallon – j.fallon@pgr.reading.ac.uk  Ecosystem collapse and climate change threaten all of our futures. What power do scientists have to avoid this looming catastrophe?  Last week, a jury at Southwark Crown Court heard statements from two scientists facing charges of criminal damage. They had taken action by calling on members of the Royal Society and the wider scientific community to engage in civil disobedience and non-violent direct action: to act as if the science is real, demonstrating a response commensurate with the catastrophic effects being predicted.  Figure 1: I ..read more
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Fusion energy: what’s the hold up?
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Adam Gainford – a.gainford@pgr.reading.ac.uk Unless you missed the news late last year that scientists at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in California reported the first successful ignition experiments, you may be thinking that the world’s energy woes are over, that fusion energy will soon be a common and cheap alternative to fossil fuels, and that the grid will soon be almost fully carbon neutral. Well, it’s not quite that simple. It’s undeniably a huge achievement that the heralded break-even barrier has finally been breached, and the promise of fusion powered reactors are still as tan ..read more
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