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David Stevens
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Mathematician, oceanographer and climate modeller. Occasional guitarist. Yes, the planet is warming. Yes, we are responsible!
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Yesterday marked 60 years of Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) at the Met Office

Find out more about the history of NWP in our recent blog www.metoffice.gov.uk/blog/2025/nu...
Numerical Weather Prediction at 60: A journey of innovation at the Met Office
Sixty years ago, the Met Office embarked on a journey that would transform weather forecasting in the United Kingdom and around the world.
www.metoffice.gov.uk
November 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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As we seem to, yet again, be talking about the hot UK summer of 1976, a reminder that the UK is not the world.

Yes, it was hot that summer over our small region, but the bigger picture tells a different story.

And, we've had hotter UK summers since.
June 18, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Huge congratulations to two of our academics, who have been awarded the prestigious Adrian Gill Award by the Royal Meteorological Society - a largely unprecedented achievement for researchers from the same institution. 👏🏆

Read more:
bit.ly/4krq18B

#UEAExpertise #ThisIsUEA #UEAResearch
June 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
April 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
A good day for a new paper. Led by Natasha Senior from her thesis work and also with Xiaoming Zhai.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Zonal jets and eddy tilts in barotropic geostrophic turbulence | Journal of Fluid Mechanics | Cambridge Core
Zonal jets and eddy tilts in barotropic geostrophic turbulence - Volume 986
www.cambridge.org
May 10, 2024 at 10:41 AM