Julia Slingo

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Julia Slingo

Julia Mary Slingo DBE (born December 13, 1950 in Kenilworth , Warwickshire , England ) is a British meteorologist and climate scientist .

Life

Julia Mary Walker was born on December 13, 1950 in Kenilworth, the daughter of Herbert Walker and Lucy Mary Walker. She attended King's High School for Girls in Warwick and studied physics at the University of Bristol . She completed her studies in 1973 with a Bachelor of Science . In 1978 she married the environmental scientist Anthony Slingo.

After graduating, she worked at the Met Office , the UK's meteorological service, in the dynamic meteorology department. She did research in the field of clouds and their interactions with the rest of the atmosphere and was a pioneer in the representation of clouds in weather forecasts and climate models. In 1985 it went to the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) in Reading and in 1986 to the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in the United States . While still in the United States, she received her Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Bristol in 1989 . Slingo returned to the UK in 1990.

Slingo spent a long time at Reading University, where she headed the National Center for Atmospheric Science and, in 2006, founded the Walker Institute for Climate Systems Research, an interdisciplinary study that addresses the challenges and effects of climate change .

From 2009 until she retired in 2016, she worked as a senior scientist at the Met Office, where she led a group of more than 500 scientists who dealt with weather and climate forecasts and projections of climate change. She was the UK's first female professor of meteorology.

Act

Slingo's work dealt in particular with tropical weather and climate variability, their influence on the earth's climate system and their role in climate forecasting over the course of months to decades. It has made important contributions to the understanding of the climate system and has developed and used weather and climate models to predict its further development. The focus of her research was the area of ​​tropical climate variability and cumulus convection , as well as their influence on global climate and their role in seasonal and decadal climate predictions. Under her leadership, new, high-resolution climate models were created. The monsoons in India and China were a particular focus . Slingo drew attention by attributing the 2013-2014 floods in England directly to man-made climate change.

Slingo is considered to be one of the most influential women in the public debate about ways out of the climate crisis . In this way she insists on the role of the CO 2 budget , which must not be exceeded in order to still be able to meet the 1.5 and two degree targets of the Paris Agreement . Another concern of Slingo is to improve the communication of scientific knowledge; it attracted attention by calling for more diverse communication channels to be used to convey the climate crisis to the general public. She said, “And this is not done with the help of tables and charts. Sometimes this is done through art, through music, through poetry and storytelling, and that is what we have to worry about more and more - how we communicate in a more humanistic way. "

Slingo was involved in the Stern Report .

Honors

Publications (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Julia Slingo: Biography. Royal Society, 2019, accessed 9 February 2019 (UK English).
  2. ↑ Slingo, Dame Julia (Mary). In: ukwhoswho.com. Retrieved February 9, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j UpClosed: Julia Slingo. In: upclosed.com. Retrieved February 9, 2019 .
  4. ^ The Life Scientific: Julia Slingo. BBC Radio 4, April 8, 2014, accessed February 9, 2019 .
  5. ↑ 20 women making waves in the climate change debate. Road to Paris, 2016, accessed February 9, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Weather and climate: in the eye of the storm. Financial Times, April 13, 2017, accessed February 9, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Unleash metrics on the climate change skeptics! Met Office chief wants scientists to turn to poetry to promote research. Independent, June 8, 2014, accessed February 9, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Professor Dame Julia Slingo. National Academy of Engineering, accessed September 14, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Eric Winsberg: Philosophy and Climate Science . Cambridge University Press, 2018, ISBN 978-1-108-16429-0 , pp. 73 , doi : 10.1017 / 9781108164290 .
personal data
SURNAME Slingo, Julia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Slingo, Julia Mary (full name); Walker, Julia Mary (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British climate scientist
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Kenilworth , Warwickshire , England