Keith Shine
Keith Shine | |
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Born | [2] | 19 April 1958
Scientific career | |
Fields | meteorology and climate science |
Institutions | University of Reading |
Thesis | Some development of a zonally averaged climate model (1981) |
Doctoral advisor | Bob Harwood |
Doctoral students | Piers Forster[1] |
Website | www |
Keith Peter Shine (born 19 April 1958) FRS[3] is the Regius Professor of Meteorology and Climate Science at the University of Reading.[4] He is the first holder of this post, which was awarded to the university by Queen Elizabeth II to mark her Diamond Jubilee.[3]
Education
Shine was educated at
Research
Shine's research interests are in meteorology and climate science, with a focus on understanding how human activity initiates
In addition, Shine is at the forefront of identifying and quantifying radiative forcing, a way of measuring the strength of climate change mechanisms. He has been heavily involved in major United Nations' assessments of climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion, and was a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 1995 IPCC Second Assessment Report.[3]
Prior to working at Reading in 1988, he held
Awards and honours
Shine was elected a
References
- ^ Forster, Piers Maxwell de Ferranti. (1994). Measuring and modelling UV radiation (PhD thesis). University of Reading.
- ^ a b c d "SHINE, Prof. Keith Peter". Who's Who. Vol. 2016 (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ a b c d e "Professor Keith Shine FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 23 November 2015. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
"All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." –"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
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