Julia Slingo

Dame
Julia Slingo
DBE FRS HonFInstP
Julia Slingo at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2015
Born
Julia Mary Walker

(1950-12-13) 13 December 1950 (age 73)
Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England, UK
Alma materUniversity of Bristol (BSc, PhD)
Spouse
Anthony Slingo
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(m. 1978; died 2008)​
[3]
ChildrenTwo daughters[3]
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisPublished work (1988)
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Julia Mary Slingo DBE, FRS, HonFInstP[1] (née Walker; born 13 December 1950) is a British meteorologist and climate scientist. She was Chief Scientist at the Met Office from 2009[4] until 2016.[5] She is also a visiting professor in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading, where she held, prior to appointment to the Met Office, the positions of Director of Climate Research in the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) National Centre for Atmospheric Science and founding director of the Walker Institute for Climate System Research.[3][6][7][8][9][10][11]

From 2015 to 2016 she was one of the members of the High Level Group of Scientific Advisors of the European Commission Scientific Advice Mechanism, part of its Directorate-General for Research and Innovation.[12][13]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference frs was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Slingo, J. M. (2007). "The Development and Verification of a Cloud Prediction Scheme for the Ecmwf Model". Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 113 (477): 899–927. doi:10.1002/qj.49711347710.
  3. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference whoswho was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Anon (2013). "Met Office chief scientist becomes Dame in honours list". London: BBC.
  5. ^ "Met Office Chief Scientist: Professor Stephen Belcher". Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  6. ^ Jim Al-Khalili (2014). "Julia Slingo interviewed on The Life Scientific". London: BBC.
  7. ^ "Julia Slingo OBE", Met Office Archived 23 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ Julia Slingo's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  9. ^ Slingo, J. M.; Sperber, K. R.; Boyle, J. S.; Ceron, J. -P.; Dix, M.; Dugas, B.; Ebisuzaki, W.; Fyfe, J.; Gregory, D.; Gueremy, J. -F.; Hack, J.; Harzallah, A.; Inness, P.; Kitoh, A.; Lau, W. K. -M.; McAvaney, B.; Madden, R.; Matthews, A.; Palmer, T. N.; Parkas, C. -K.; Randall, D.; Renno, N. (1996). "Intraseasonal oscillations in 15 atmospheric general circulation models: Results from an AMIP diagnostic subproject". Climate Dynamics. 12 (5): 325–357. Bibcode:1996ClDy...12..325S. doi:10.1007/BF00231106. S2CID 17411665.
  10. ^ Annamalai, H.; Slingo, J. M.; Sperber, K. R.; Hodges, K. (1999). "The Mean Evolution and Variability of the Asian Summer Monsoon: Comparison of ECMWF and NCEP–NCAR Reanalyses" (PDF). Monthly Weather Review. 127 (6): 1157–1186. Bibcode:1999MWRv..127.1157A. doi:10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<1157:TMEAVO>2.0.CO;2.
  11. ^ Official website Edit this at Wikidata of Julia Slingo
  12. ^ Wilsdon, James (10 November 2015). "European commission unveils its A-team of science advisers". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 November 2015.
  13. ^ "SAM High Level Group". European Commission. Retrieved 7 December 2016.