Tim Palmer (physicist)

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Palmer, 2013 World Economic Forum

Timothy Noel "Tim" Palmer (born December 31, 1952 in Kingston upon Thames ) is a British physicist and meteorologist.

Palmer studied in Bristol and received a PhD in physics (general relativity) from Oxford University with Dennis Sciama and then worked with Stephen Hawking in Cambridge on supergravity. Soon after, he turned to meteorology, moving to the Meteorological Office in 1978 and becoming Head of Department and Senior Scientist at the European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasts in Reading in 1986 . He has also been the Royal Society 2010 Anniversary Professor of Climate Physics at Oxford and a Fellow of Jesus College since 2010 .

As a meteorologist, he is known for his work in numerical weather forecasting and climate research, especially ensemble forecasting , in which uncertainties about initial data (and their increase in the context of the non-linear dynamics of the weather) are included in the forecast. He is one of the lead authors in the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change .

In 2008, he proposed to expand the laws of physics to include a postulate of the invariant set based on the theory of fractals and nonlinear dynamics (Invariant Set Hypothesis) and sees this as an opportunity to better understand some of the paradoxes of quantum theory ( Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen- Paradox , Cooking-Specker Theorem ).

In 2014 he received the Dirac Medal (IOP) for his meteorological work. He also received the Royal Society Esso Energy Award, the Buchan Medal from the Royal Meteorological Society , the Charney Award and the Gustav Rossby Medal from the American Meteorological Society . He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2003 and the Royal Meteorological Society in 1978 and is a member of the American Meteorological Society. He became President of the Royal Meteorological Society in 2010. In 2004 he became a member of the Academia Europaea , in 2015 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society , 2019 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and 2020 to the National Academy of Sciences .

In 1997, Palmer won the Jule G. Charney Award and in 2018 he was awarded the Lewis Fry Richardson Medal .

Fonts

  • with F. Molteni, R. Buizza, T. Petroliagis The ECMWF Ensemble Prediction System: Methodology and validation , Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Volume 122, 1996, pp. 73-119
  • with GJ Shutts, R. Hagedorn, FJ Doblas-Reyes, T. Jung, M. Leutbecher: Representing Model Uncertainty in Weather and Climate Prediction , Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Volume 33, 2005, pp. 163-193.
  • Editor with Paul Williams: Stochastic physics and climate modeling, Cambridge University Press 2010
  • Editor with Renate Hagedorn: Predictability of weather and climate, Cambridge University Press 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Palmer The Invariant Set Postulates: a new geometric framework for the foundations of quantum theory and the role played by gravity , Proceedings of the Royal Society A 465, 2009, p. 3187, Arxiv
  2. ↑ Dirac Medal 2014
personal data
SURNAME Palmer, Tim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Palmer, Timothy Noel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British physicist and meteorologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Kingston upon Thames