Brian John Hoskins
University of London
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Primary Section: 16, Geophysics Secondary Section: 63, Environmental Sciences and Ecology Membership Type:
International Member
(elected 2002)
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Biosketch
Brian Hoskins has mathematics degrees from Cambridge. He has been a Professor in Meteorology there since 1981, was the Founding Director of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and is now its Chair. His research is in weather and climate, in particular the understanding of atmospheric motion on all scales. His international roles have included being vice-chair of the Joint Scientific Committee for the World Climate Research Programme and President of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences. He had a number of roles in the 2007 IPCC international climate change assessment. In the UK he has advised Government on climate change and was a member of the Climate Change Committee for its first 10 years. He is a member of the science academies of the UK, USA, China and Europe, and has received the top prizes of the UK and US Meteorological Societies and the Buys Ballot Medal (awarded by the Netherlands every 10 years). He was knighted in 2007 for his services to the environment.
Research Interests
Atmospheric storm-tracks and their changes. The dynamics of atmospheric Hadley Cells.
