Tim Palmer (physicist)

Tim Palmer
CBE FRS
Palmer at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos 2013
Born
Timothy Noel Palmer

(1952-12-31) 31 December 1952 (age 71)[citation needed]
Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England
Alma mater
Awards
Scientific career
ThesisCovariant conservation equations and their relation to the energy- momentum concept in general relativity (1977)
Doctoral advisorDennis William Sciama[2]
Websitewww2.physics.ox.ac.uk/contacts/people/palmer

Timothy Noel Palmer CBE FRS[1] (born 31 December 1952) is a mathematical physicist by training. He has spent most of his career working on the dynamics and predictability of weather and climate. Among various research achievements, he pioneered the development of probabilistic ensemble forecasting techniques for weather and climate prediction (at the Met Office and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts).[3] These techniques are now standard in operational weather and climate prediction around the world, and are central for reliable decision making for many commercial and humanitarian applications.

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  3. ^ Palmer, Tim (2018). "The ECMWF ensemble prediction system: Looking back (more than) 25 years and projecting forward 25 years". Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 145: 12–24. arXiv:1803.06940. doi:10.1002/qj.3383. ISSN 1477-870X. S2CID 4944687.