Category Archives: Academia

Using ChatGPT in Atmospheric Science

Posted on 23 January, 2023 by danaallen

By: Mark Muetzelfeldt ChatGPT is amazing. Seriously. Go try it: chat.openai.com/chat. So what is it? It is an artificial intelligence language model that has been trained on vast amounts of data, turning this into an internal representation of the structure of … Continue reading →

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The OpenIFS User Workshop

Posted on 17 June, 2019 by danaallen

By Bob Plant I’ve been asked to write a blog post to go live on 17 June, the opening day of the 2019 OpenIFS user workshop. As I’m involved in the organisation, it would almost seem strange not to talk … Continue reading →

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Teaching in China and some Good and Bad Teaching Practices

Posted on 3 June, 2019 by danaallen

By: Hilary Weller In April 2019 I visited the Nanjing University Institute of Information, Science and Technology (NUIST) where students are studying for a degree in Meteorology jointly between Reading and NUIST. Staff from Reading visit a couple of times … Continue reading →

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Climate change art and politicisation

Posted on 3 September, 2018 by

By Max Leighton Figure 1 “Ice Watch” by Olafur Eliasson at the Place du Panthéon. The blocks of glacial ice taken from Greenland melted away from 3rd to 12th December 2015, during the Paris COP21 international climate negotiations. Artists have … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on Standing up for Science workshop in London

Posted on 5 February, 2018 by Stephen Burt

By Amulya Chevuturi On recently attending the “Standing up for Science workshop” in London, organized by “Voice of Young Science” (VoYS), I got a glimpse of the implications of my science beyond my own desk at work. I went to this … Continue reading →

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Confessions of an Admissions Tutor

Posted on 13 March, 2017 by Stephen Burt

By Hilary Weller I am a postgraduate admissions tutor, so I see a lot of applications for PhD positions and I do a lot of interviewing. I would like to share some tips for applicants for PhD and post-doc positions … Continue reading →

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From kilobytes to petabytes for global change research: take the skills survey!

Posted on 21 November, 2016 by Stephen Burt

By Vicky Lucas Institute for Environmental Analytics If you deal with megabytes of environmental sample data, or gigabytes of sensor data, or terabytes of model data or petabytes of remote sensing data, then I’d like you to take a survey.  … Continue reading →

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Meteorology PhD theses digitised

Posted on 21 September, 2015 by Stephen Burt

By Catherine Turner The Meteorology department at Reading is internationally renowned for its research. This research includes hundreds of theses for which we regularly receive requests for copies.  As the department’s librarian, I wanted to digitise our collection of theses … Continue reading →

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Excellent REF 2014 results for Department of Meteorology

Posted on 18 December, 2014 by Stephen Burt

The results for the Research Excellence Framework (REF), REF 2014, the UK’s latest assessment of University research, were released this morning (18 December 2014). The University of Reading as a whole has moved upward and the Department of Meteorology performed well, … Continue reading →

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Tosca’s kiss – the effects of energetic particles on the atmosphere

Posted on 14 April, 2014 by Stephen Burt

By Giles Harrison, Professor of Atmospheric Physics The Sun is usually thought of as a fundamental source of visible radiation, but it also provides both a source of, and controlling influence on energetic particles which arrive in the earth’s atmosphere. … Continue reading →

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