Julian Hunt, Baron Hunt of Chesterton
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Julian Charles Roland Hunt, Baron Hunt of Chesterton FRS (born 5 September 1941) is a leading British
authority on turbulence modelling, former Director General and Chief Executive of the UK Meteorological Office
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He was educated at Westminster School
and went on to study Mechanical Sciences at Trinity College
, Cambridge where he is now a fellow, and gained a first class honours degree in 1963. In 1967 he was awarded a PhD on Aspects of Magnetohydrodynamics from Cambridge.
In 1989, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
.
He was made a life peer as Baron Hunt of Chesterton, of Chesterton in the County of Cambridgeshire
on 5 May 2000. He is the father of historian and Member of Parliament
for Stoke-on-Trent Central, Tristram Hunt
and journalist and novelist Jemima Hunt
.
Here he was active in negotiating new international arrangements for the exchange of data to ensure that National Meteorological Services worldwide can continue to collaborate with each other at the same time as encouraging the commercial applications of meteorology worldwide.
He worked to improve international warnings for disasters, ranging from tropical cyclones to volcanoes, and to emphasise urban meteorology at WMS. He actively promoted collaboration in Europe and was elected Chairman of the Informal Conference on West European Directors for 1994-95.
As chief executive of the Met Office, he introduced a programme of quality improvement.
Arguably his main task was to restructure the Meteorological Office, as it made its transition to become a Trading Fund
in 1996.
In 1997 he left the Met Office and was replaced by Peter Ewins.
In recent years he has warned that the pattern of Asia
n monsoons could be fundamentally altered unless there is a concerted effort to check greenhouse gas
emissions in the area. He is chairman of Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants Ltd.
United Kingdom
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authority on turbulence modelling, former Director General and Chief Executive of the UK Meteorological Office
Met Office
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Life
He is Professor of Climate modelling in the Department of Space & Climate Physics and Department of Earth Sciences at University College LondonUniversity College London
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He was educated at Westminster School
Westminster School
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and went on to study Mechanical Sciences at Trinity College
Trinity College, Cambridge
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, Cambridge where he is now a fellow, and gained a first class honours degree in 1963. In 1967 he was awarded a PhD on Aspects of Magnetohydrodynamics from Cambridge.
In 1989, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
Royal Society
The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, is a learned society for science, and is possibly the oldest such society in existence. Founded in November 1660, it was granted a Royal Charter by King Charles II as the "Royal Society of London"...
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He was made a life peer as Baron Hunt of Chesterton, of Chesterton in the County of Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire
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on 5 May 2000. He is the father of historian and Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament
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for Stoke-on-Trent Central, Tristram Hunt
Tristram Hunt
Tristram Julian William Hunt, FRHistS MP is a British politician, historian, broadcaster and newspaper columnist, who is currently the Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent Central. He also teaches and lectures on Modern British History at Queen Mary, University of London in Mile End, East London...
and journalist and novelist Jemima Hunt
Jemima Hunt
The Hon. Jemima Hunt is a British journalist and novelist.She is the author of the books The Late Arrival and Notes from Utopia...
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Meteorological Office
He followed Sir John Houghton as Director-General and Chief Executive of the Meteorological Office in 1992, consequently being elected to the Executive Committee of the World Meteorological Organisation.Here he was active in negotiating new international arrangements for the exchange of data to ensure that National Meteorological Services worldwide can continue to collaborate with each other at the same time as encouraging the commercial applications of meteorology worldwide.
He worked to improve international warnings for disasters, ranging from tropical cyclones to volcanoes, and to emphasise urban meteorology at WMS. He actively promoted collaboration in Europe and was elected Chairman of the Informal Conference on West European Directors for 1994-95.
As chief executive of the Met Office, he introduced a programme of quality improvement.
Arguably his main task was to restructure the Meteorological Office, as it made its transition to become a Trading Fund
Trading Fund
A trading fund is a UK executive agency, government department or part of a department, which has been established as such by means of a Trading Fund Order made under the Government Trading Funds Act 1973....
in 1996.
In 1997 he left the Met Office and was replaced by Peter Ewins.
In recent years he has warned that the pattern of Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
n monsoons could be fundamentally altered unless there is a concerted effort to check greenhouse gas
Greenhouse gas
A greenhouse gas is a gas in an atmosphere that absorbs and emits radiation within the thermal infrared range. This process is the fundamental cause of the greenhouse effect. The primary greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere are water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone...
emissions in the area. He is chairman of Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants Ltd.