Joanna Haigh

Joanna Haigh
Born Joanna Dorothy Haigh
(1954-05-07) 7 May 1954
Fields
Institutions
Alma mater
Thesis Experiments with a two-dimensional model of the general circulation (1980)
Doctoral advisor C.D. Walshaw[3]
Doctoral students Alice Bows
Known for Work on solar variability
Notable awards
Website
www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/j.haigh
Joanna Haigh's voice
from the BBC programme The Life Scientific, 27 August 2013.[4]

Joanna Dorothy Haigh, CBE, FRS, FRMetS (born 7 May 1954) is a British physicist and academic. She is Professor of Atmospheric Physics at Imperial College London, and co-director of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment. She is a former head of the Department of Physics at Imperial College London. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society, and a former president of the Royal Meteorological Society.

Early life and education

Haigh was born on 7 May 1954.[2] She was educated at Hitchin Girls' School, then an all-girls grammar school in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. She studied physics at the University of Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree; as per tradition, this was later promoted to a Master of Arts (MA (Oxon)) degree. This was followed by a Master of Science (MSc) degree in Meteorology at Imperial College London. She returned to Oxford to complete a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in Atmospheric Physics under the supervision of C.D. Walshaw. This was awarded in 1980 and her doctoral thesis was titled "Experiments with a two-dimensional model of the general circulation".[3]

Academic career

She is Professor of Atmospheric Physics at Imperial College London. Since 2014, she has been co-director of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment.[5] She was previously head of the Department of Physics at Imperial College, serving between 2009 and 2014.[6]

Research

Haigh is known for her work on solar variability, and also works on radiative transfer, stratosphere-troposphere coupling and climate modelling.[7][8][9][10][11] She is President of the Royal Meteorological Society and Editor of the Journal of Atmospheric Sciences and a Lead Author on the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.[12] She is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics. In 2004 she received the Institute of Physics' Charles Chree Medal and Prize and in 2010 the Royal Meteorological Society Adrian Gill prize for her work on solar variability and its effects on climate.[13]

Honours

In the 2013 New Year Honours, Haigh was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) "for services to physics".[14][15]

Haigh is a former president of the Royal Meteorological Society; she is now a vice-president.[4][1] In 2013, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). Her nomination read:

"Distinguished for her scientific leadership in the area of solar influences on the middle atmosphere and for her modelling of how these effects can modulate tropospheric circulations and so propagate to Earth's surface. Her expertise in modelling atmospheric radiative transfer allowed the development of computationally fast but accurate radiative transfer schemes some of which are now in use by climate modelling groups across the world. By proposing and demonstrating an entirely novel mechanism for solar influence on climate she has allowed proper allowance to be made for the small and subtle, yet revealing effects."[16]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "President and Council - Royal Meteorological Society". Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  2. 1 2 "HAIGH, Prof. Joanna Dorothy". Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press.(subscription required)
  3. 1 2 Haigh, Joanna (1980). Experiments with a two-dimensional model of the general circulation (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford.
  4. 1 2 "Joanna Haigh". The Life Scientific. 27 August 2013. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  5. ↑ "Home - Professor Joanna D. Haigh". Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  6. ↑ "Past Heads of Department". Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  7. ↑ Haigh, J. D.; Roscoe, H. K. (2009). "The Final Warming Date of the Antarctic Polar Vortex and Influences on its Interannual Variability". Journal of Climate 22 (22): 5809. Bibcode:2009JCli...22.5809H. doi:10.1175/2009JCLI2865.1.
  8. ↑ Haigh, J. D.; Blackburn, M. (2006). "Solar Influences on Dynamical Coupling Between the Stratosphere and Troposphere". Space Science Reviews 125: 331. Bibcode:2006SSRv..125..331H. doi:10.1007/s11214-006-9067-0.
  9. ↑ Haigh, J. D. (2003). "The effects of solar variability on the Earth's climate". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 361 (1802): 95–10. Bibcode:2003RSPTA.361...95H. doi:10.1098/rsta.2002.1111.
  10. ↑ Haigh, J. D. (2001). "CLIMATE: Climate Variability and the Influence of the Sun". Science 294 (5549): 2109–2111. doi:10.1126/science.1067013. PMID 11739941.
  11. ↑ Haigh, J. D.; Pyle, J. A. (1979). "A two-dimensional calculation including atmospheric carbon dioxide and stratospheric ozone". Nature 279 (5710): 222. doi:10.1038/279222a0.
  12. ↑ http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg1/index.php?idp=558
  13. ↑ "Joanna Dorothy Haigh - Royal Meteorological Society". Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  14. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 60367. p. 8. 29 December 2012.
  15. ↑ "New Year Honours List 2013 - General List" (PDF). Cabinet Office. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  16. ↑ Professor Joanna Haigh FRS

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