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Hannah Christensen, left, with colleagues

£1m Leverhulme Research Leadership Award for climate prediction

Professor Hannah Christensen has received a £1m Leverhulme Research Leadership Award for research that focuses on characterising and reducing uncertainty in weather forecasts and climate predictions
28 February 2023
Professor Tim Palmer

Professor Tim Palmer recognised by RAS

Professor Tim Palmer from the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics has today received the Royal Astronomical Society’s 2023 Gold Medal for Geophysics for his outstanding work in advancing the understanding and prediction of climate and weather.
13 January 2023
Professor Tim Palmer

Professor Tim Palmer: revolutionising weather and climate prediction

On 6 December, the Department of Physics held a symposium to celebrate the remarkable career of Professor Tim Palmer CBE FRS
8 December 2022
Met Office northern hemisphere model visualisation

Research excellence continues with Met Office-Oxford partnership

The University of Oxford has successfully renewed its membership of the Met Office Academic Partnership (MOAP) for a further three years.
9 November 2022
Martha Buckley

Meet...Martha Buckley

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.
8 November 2022
The Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption as seen by Japan's Himawari-8 satellite

Tonga volcano had highest plume ever recorded

A new analysis led by Oxford University researchers has shown the devastating Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption in January 2022 created the tallest volcanic plume ever recorded.
4 November 2022
Ship tracks arise when aerosol emissions from ships enter clouds and make them brighter. From satellite, they appear as long lines, like here in the Bay of Biscay, north of Spain.

Analysis of shipping emissions reveals a larger effect of air pollution on climate than previously thought

Findings from two separate research papers analysing ship tracks indicate that air pollution has a larger effect on climate than previously thought.
5 October 2022
Alyson Douglas

Meet...Alyson Douglas

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.
8 September 2022
Professor Raymond Pierrehumbert

Professor Pierrehumbert awarded Rumford Medal

Professor Raymond Pierrehumbert has been awarded the Royal Society’s Rumford Medal 2022 for outstanding contributions in the field of physics.
24 August 2022
Andrew Williams

Meet...Andrew Williams

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.
11 August 2022
Satellite image of smoke plumes over Kalimantan, Indonesia during the massive peat fires of October 2015

Understanding absorbing aerosol

Researchers from Oxford’s Department of Physics have a new understanding of how the mysterious ‘absorbing aerosol’ can change the climate. The research, led by Andrew Williams and Professor Philip Stier, is published in today in Nature Climate Change.
21 July 2022
Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai eruption

Physicists monitor 'unique' submarine volcano eruption

A multi-institutional international team of researchers combined extensive satellite data with ground-level observations to show that the eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai was unique
30 June 2022
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