Julian Hunt, Baron Hunt of Chesterton

Julian Hunt, Baron Hunt of Chesterton

Julian Charles Roland Hunt, Baron Hunt of Chesterton FRS (born September 5, 1941 ) is a British meteorologist. He was the general manager of the Met Office .

Life

Hunt studied at Trinity College in Cambridge and graduated in 1963 with the best possible first class honors . In 1967 he received his doctorate in Cambridge on the subject of "Aspects of Magnetohydrodynamics". After positions as a lecturer at the University of Cape Town , South Africa, and research assistant at Cornell University , USA, he went to the University of Cambridge in England in 1970 , where he finally became professor of fluid mechanics in 1990 .

At the beginning of 1989, Hunt was on a project that examined the spread of substances in the atmosphere and was carried out in cooperation with the Met Office and the British energy company National Power . From 1992 to 1997, Hunt was General Manager of the Met Office. He then devoted himself to his academic career again: at the Institute de mécanique des fluides de Toulouse , France, at Arizona State University and in Stanford , USA, which specializes in fluid mechanics . In 1999 he moved back to England, where he became Professor of Climate Modeling at University College London . Together with colleagues from Cambridge he founded the company Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants for the development of environmental software and dispersion models, of which he was director from 2001. Hunt is retired.

In 1989 Hunt became a member of the Royal Society . In 2001, the European Geosciences Union awarded him the Lewis Fry Richardson Medal for his fundamental contributions to the understanding of turbulent and stratified flows as well as to dispersion modeling and their application . He has been a member of the Academia Europaea since 2009 . He is an Honorary Professor from the University of Cambridge and Honorary Doctorates from the University of East Anglia , the University of Bath and the University of Salford .

On May 5, 2000, he was promoted to Life Peer as Baron Hunt of Chesterton . He is the father of historian and MP Tristram Hunt and journalist Jemima Hunt.

Met Office

Hunt became General Manager of the Met Office on January 1, 1992, succeeding John Houghton . and was also elected to the Central Committee of the World Meteorological Organization . He was involved in the negotiations on international data exchange agreements, which should ensure the cooperation of the national meteorological services. He worked on improving international warnings for disasters, from tropical cyclones to volcanic eruptions. He actively promoted cooperation in Europe and was elected Chairman of the Western European Directors. One of his main tasks was restructuring the Met Office after it had become a trading fund and was required to operate on entrepreneurial principles. In 1997 he left the Met Office and was succeeded by Peter Ewins .

On the occasion of the 2010 Pakistan flood, Hunt warned that heavy rainfall events triggered by the Asian monsoons could become more frequent and that India and Pakistan could be increasingly hit by catastrophic floods, fueled by global warming and potentially changes in the El Niño Southern Oscillation .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Malcom Walker: History of the Meteorological Office . 2011, ISBN 978-1-139-50448-5 , pp. 427-435 .
2. ^ ^{A b c} Professor Lord Julian Hunt - Fellow at Trinity College Cambridge. University Cambridge, Center for Science and Policy, accessed April 16, 2020 . 
3. ^ Lewis Fry Richardson Medal 2001 - Julian CR Hunt. European Geosciences Union, accessed April 16, 2020 . 
4. ^ Membership directory: Julian CR Hunt. Academia Europaea, accessed December 31, 2017 . 
5. ^ Julian Charles Roland Hunt, Baron Hunt of Chesterton on thepeerage.com , accessed September 12, 2016.
6. ↑ Julian Hunt: deluges after the deluge. In: The Guardian. August 24, 2010, accessed April 16, 2020 .