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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.

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

Professor Myles Allen has been appointed Frank Jackson Foundation Professor of the Environment at Gresham College.

Professor Tim Woollings has received the American Meteorological Society’s Louis J Battan Author’s Award (adult) for Jet Stream, a scientifically accurate account of large-scale atmospheric dynamics told from the perspective of a drifting weather balloon.

Professor Myles Allen has been recognised in the 2022 New Year's Honours

Professor Philip Stier, Head of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics at Oxford, has been elected President of the Atmospheric Sciences division of the European Geosciences Union, the leading organisation for Earth, planetary and space science resear

Having followed in his footsteps at the Princeton Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Halley Professor of Physics Raymond Pierrehumbert reflects on Syukuro Manabe’s Nobel Prize-winning work

Professor Tim Palmer has been awarded honorary fellowship of the Institute of Physics in recognition of his long and remarkable career

Professor Philip Stier has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ Edward Appleton Medal and Prize 2021, and elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Physics in recognition of his personal contribution to the advancement of physics as a discipline and a pro

Oxford physicists are delighted to hear that NASA has confirmed its latest Earth science mission: Investigation of Convective Updrafts (INCUS).

Dr Duncan Watson-Parris and Professor Philip Stier in the Department of Physics are bringing together leading researchers from around the world for a United Nations ITU AI for Good: AI for Climate Science