Adam Scaife

Adam Arthur Scaife (born 18 March 1970) is a British physicist, and head of long range prediction at the Met Office.^[1] He is an honorary visiting Professor at Exeter University.^[2] Scaife carries out research into long range weather forecasting and computer modelling of the climate. Scaife has published over 100 peer reviewed studies on atmospheric dynamics, computer modelling and climate predictability and change and recently published popular science ^[3] and academic books^[4] on meteorology.

Career

Scaife studied Natural Sciences (Physics) at Cambridge University (1988-1991), Environmental Science at Surrey University (1991-1992) and was awarded a PhD in Meteorology from Reading University (1998). He joined the Met Office in 1992 and spent the next decade working on computer modelling and dynamics of the stratosphere. Many of his studies show how predictable factors ^{[5] [6] [7] [8]} affect surface weather from months to decades ahead. Since 2003 he has led teams of scientists in the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, working on surface climate. He now leads research and production of monthly, seasonal and decadal predictions, ^{[9] [10]} and regularly comments on extreme climate events, ^{[11] [12] [13]} as well as contributing to dissemination of climate science to the public. ^{[14] [15] [16] [17]}

Scaife is co-chair of the World Meteorological Organisation's Working Group on Seasonal to Interannual Prediction,^[18] member of the scientific steering group of the World Climate Research Programme's core project on the stratosphere and its role in climate,^[19] and a fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society.^[20]

Awards

• Royal Meteorological Society's Adrian Gill Award (2014)^[21]
• L.G. Groves Memorial prize (2013)
• Met Office Chief Executive award for Scientific Discovery (2012)
• Lloyds Science of Risk Prize for Climate Science (2011)^[22]

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