Joanna D. Haigh is Head of Department and Professor of Atmospheric Physics at Imperial College London in the faculty of natural sciences. She is known for her work on solar variability, but also works on radiative transfer, stratosphere-troposphere coupling and climate model

Climate model

Climate models use quantitative methods to simulate the interactions of the atmosphere, oceans, land surface, and ice. They are used for a variety of purposes from study of the dynamics of the climate system to projections of future climate...

ling. She is a past Vice-President of the Royal Meteorological Society

Royal Meteorological Society

The Royal Meteorological Society traces its origins back to 3 April 1850 when the British Meteorological Society was formed as a society the objects of which should be the advancement and extension of meteorological science by determining the laws of climate and of meteorological phenomena in general...

 and Editor of the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, and a Lead Author on the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a scientific intergovernmental body which provides comprehensive assessments of current scientific, technical and socio-economic information worldwide about the risk of climate change caused by human activity, its potential environmental and...

 http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg1/index.php?idp=558. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics. In 2004 she received the Institute of Physics' Charles Chree Medal and Prize for her work on solar variability and its effects on climate.

External links

• Bio at Imperial College London
• Home page
• Global warming is caused by human activity — interview for the Open University
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