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Dr Katherine Shirley has won the MPLS Public Engagement with Research Impact Award for her planetary research work.

Professor Timothy Palmer has been awarded the World Meteorological Organization’s top award, the IMO prize, for his outstanding contribution to meteorology, and in particular, for developing probabilistic ensemble prediction methods for forecasting.

Pioneering weather and climate modeller, Professor Tim Palmer from the Department of Physics at Oxford, has been elected Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy.

A study published today in Geophysical Research Letters shows that the maximum temperature of the hottest days is increasing at twice the rate of the maximum temperature of average summer days.

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.

Professor Myles Allen has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society for his groundbreaking contributions to the quantitative understanding of climate change.

Brand new intel on mysterious planet GJ 1214 b has been gleaned thanks to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

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

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. Here, we meet postdoc Jake Taylor.

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.

On 6 December, the Department of Physics held a symposium to celebrate the remarkable career of Professor Tim Palmer CBE FRS

University of Oxford academics have contributed to the most comprehensive molecular and chemical analysis of an exoplanet’s atmosphere, enabled by new data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).