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David Stevens

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Mathematician, oceanographer and climate modeller. Occasional guitarist. Yes, the planet is warming. Yes, we are responsible!

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Numerical Weather Prediction at 60: A journey of innovation at the Met Office Sixty years ago, the Met Office embarked on a journey that would transform weather forecasting in the United Kingdom and around the world.

Yesterday marked 60 years of Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) at the Met Office

Find out more about the history of NWP in our recent blog www.metoffice.gov.uk/blog/2025/nu...

03.11.2025 12:59 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

The original is very good and deserves the occasional play. And, of course, Blondie’s great version wouldn’t exist without it.

05.07.2025 09:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Comparing temperature anomalies in summer 1976 and summer 2024

Comparing temperature anomalies in summer 1976 and summer 2024

As we seem to, yet again, be talking about the hot UK summer of 1976, a reminder that the UK is not the world.

Yes, it was hot that summer over our small region, but the bigger picture tells a different story.

And, we've had hotter UK summers since.

18.06.2025 10:56 β€” πŸ‘ 107    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 3
Left to right: Prof Manoj Joshi and Prof Adrian Martin

Left to right: Prof Manoj Joshi and Prof Adrian Martin

Huge congratulations to two of our academics, who have been awarded the prestigious Adrian Gill Award by the Royal Meteorological Society - a largely unprecedented achievement for researchers from the same institution. πŸ‘πŸ†

Read more:
bit.ly/4krq18B

#UEAExpertise #ThisIsUEA #UEAResearch

04.06.2025 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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25.04.2025 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 60391    πŸ” 20697    πŸ’¬ 600    πŸ“Œ 832

That’ll be why it didn’t show up in my BBC Sounds feed this morning. Had to go a searchin’ and subscribe to the new show.

15.02.2025 08:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Zonal jets and eddy tilts in barotropic geostrophic turbulence | Journal of Fluid Mechanics | Cambridge Core Zonal jets and eddy tilts in barotropic geostrophic turbulence - Volume 986

A good day for a new paper. Led by Natasha Senior from her thesis work and also with Xiaoming Zhai.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

10.05.2024 10:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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