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A new Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT), Intelligent Earth, will train almost 100 PhD students to develop and apply cutting-edge AI technologies to tackle urgent environmental crises.

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.

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

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

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

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

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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.