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Joanna Haigh
CBEFRSFInstPFRMetS
Haigh interviewed byCarbon Briefin 2019
Born
Joanna Dorothy Haigh

(1954-05-07)7 May 1954(age 70)
EducationHitchin Girls' School
Alma mater
Known forWork onsolar variability
AwardsChree Medal(2004)
Scientific career
FieldsAtmospheric physics[1]
Institutions
ThesisExperiments with a two-dimensional model of the general circulation(1980)
Doctoral advisorC.D. Walshaw[3]
Notable studentsAlice Larkin[4]
Joanna Haigh's voice
from the BBC programmeThe Life Scientific,27 August 2013.[6]
Websitewww.imperial.ac.uk/people/j.haighEdit this at Wikidata

Joanna Dorothy HaighCBEFRSFInstPFRMetS(born 7 May 1954)[5]is a Britishphysicistand academic.[1][7][8]Before her retirement in 2019[9]she was Professor ofAtmospheric PhysicsatImperial College London,and co-director of theGrantham Institute – Climate Change and Environment.She served as head of the department of physics at Imperial College London.[when?]She is aFellow of the Royal Society(FRS), and a served as president of theRoyal Meteorological Society.[when?]

Early life and education

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Haigh was born in 1954.[5]She was educated atHitchin Girls' School,then an all-girlsgrammar schoolinHitchin,Hertfordshire. She showed an early interest in the weather, building her own weather station in her back garden as a teenager.[9]She studiedphysicsatSomerville College,Oxford,graduating with aBachelor of Arts(BA) degree; as per tradition, this was later promoted to aMaster of Arts(Oxon) degree. This was followed by aMaster of Science(MSc) degree inmeteorologyatImperial College London.She returned to Oxford to complete aDoctor of Philosophy(DPhil) degree inatmospheric physicsunder thesupervisionof C.D. Walshaw. This was awarded in 1980 for herdoctoral thesisonExperiments with a two-dimensional model of the general circulation.[3]

Career and research

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Haigh isEmeritusProfessor ofatmospheric physicsatImperial College London.Since 2014, she has served as co-director of theGrantham Institute – Climate Change and Environment.[10]She has served as head of the department of physics at Imperial College from 2009 to 2014.[11]

Haigh is known for her work onsolar variability,and also works on radiative transfer,stratosphere-tropospherecoupling andclimate modelling.[12][13][14][15][16]She has served as editor of theJournal of the Atmospheric Sciencesand a lead author on theThird Assessment Reportof theIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC).[17]

Views on climate change

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Haigh conforms to themainstream scientific view,thatanthropogenic carbon emissionslead to increasedgreenhouse warming.She stated in June 2016 that if current levels ofcarbon dioxideemissions continued unabated, they would lead to a 5 °C increase overpre-industrial climateby the end of the next century, and that achieving a zero temperature rise would require a complete cessation of carbon emissions.[18]She also stated that she was optimistic about the future, following theCOP21 conference,[18]but later, whenDonald Trumpbecame president of the United States, she said:

"If Trump does what he said he'd do, and others follow suit, my gut feeling is that I'm scared. Very scared."[19]

Awards and honours

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In the2013 New Year Honours,Haigh was appointed aCommander of the Order of the British Empire(CBE) "for services to physics".[20][21]Haigh served as president of theRoyal Meteorological Societyfrom 2012 to 2014; she is now[when?]a vice-president.[2][6]In 2013, she was elected aFellow of the Royal Society(FRS). Her nomination read:[22]

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 atmosphericradiative transferallowed the development of computationally fast but accurate radiative transfer schemes some of which are now in use byclimate modellinggroups 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.

In 2004 she received theCharles Chree Medal and Prizefrom theInstitute of Physicsand in 2010 the Royal Meteorological Society Adrian Gill prize for her work on solar variability and its effects on climate.[23]

In November 2020 she was included in theBBC Radio 4Woman's HourPower list 2020.[24]She was interviewed byJim Al-KhaliliforThe Life Scientificin 2013.[6]

Haigh is aFellow of the Institute of Physics(FInstP).[5]

References

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  1. ^abJoanna Haighpublications indexed byGoogle ScholarEdit this at Wikidata
  2. ^abc"President and Council – Royal Meteorological Society".Retrieved14 October2014.
  3. ^abHaigh, Joanna Dorothy (1980).Experiments with a two-dimensional model of the general circulation.ox.ac.uk(DPhil thesis). University of Oxford.OCLC298511188.EThOSuk.bl.ethos.256537.Free access icon
  4. ^Larkin, Alice (2000).Investigation into the effects of solar variability on climate using atmospheric models of the troposphere and stratosphere(PhD thesis). Imperial College London.OCLC1006239909.EThOSuk.bl.ethos.310070.
  5. ^abcdAnon (2014)."Haigh, Prof. Joanna Dorothy".Who's Who(onlineOxford University Pressed.). Oxford: A & C Black.doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U258354.(Subscription orUK public library membershiprequired.)
  6. ^abc"Joanna Haigh".The Life Scientific.27 August 2013.BBC Radio 4.Retrieved18 January2014.
  7. ^Global warming is caused by human activityArchived5 September 2018 at theWayback Machine– interview for theOpen University
  8. ^The Carbon Brief Interview: Prof Joanna Haigh(29 April 2019)
  9. ^abDunning, Hayley (3 May 2019)."Climate champion Jo Haigh retires after 35 years at Imperial | Imperial News | Imperial College London".Imperial News.Retrieved5 May2019.
  10. ^"Home – Professor Joanna D. Haigh".Retrieved14 October2014.
  11. ^"Past Heads of Department".Retrieved14 October2014.
  12. ^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.S2CID128778821.
  13. ^Haigh, J. D.; Blackburn, M. (2006)."Solar Influences on Dynamical Coupling Between the Stratosphere and Troposphere"(PDF).Space Science Reviews.125(1–4): 331.Bibcode:2006SSRv..125..331H.doi:10.1007/s11214-006-9067-0.S2CID32825899.
  14. ^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): 95–111.Bibcode:2003RSPTA.361...95H.doi:10.1098/rsta.2002.1111.S2CID53007804.
  15. ^Haigh, J. D. (2001). "CLIMATE: Climate Variability and the Influence of the Sun".Science.294(5549): 2109–2111.doi:10.1126/science.1067013.PMID11739941.S2CID955158.
  16. ^Haigh, J. D.; Pyle, J. A. (1979). "A two-dimensional calculation including atmospheric carbon dioxide and stratospheric ozone".Nature.279(5710): 222.Bibcode:1979Natur.279..222H.doi:10.1038/279222a0.S2CID4244566.
  17. ^"IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change".ipcc.ch.
  18. ^ab"Atmospheric physicist Joanna Haigh takes on climate change at the IOP".Institute of Physics. 9 June 2016.Retrieved21 January2017.
  19. ^Harrabin, Roger (21 January 2017)."World v Trump on global climate deal?".BBC News.Retrieved21 January2017.
  20. ^"No. 60367".The London Gazette(Supplement). 29 December 2012. p. 8.
  21. ^"New Year Honours List 2013 – General List"(PDF).Cabinet Office.Retrieved29 December2012.
  22. ^"- Royal Society".royalsociety.org.
  23. ^"Joanna Dorothy Haigh – Royal Meteorological Society".Archived fromthe originalon 18 October 2014.Retrieved14 October2014.
  24. ^"Woman's Hour Power List 2020: The List".BBC Radio4.Retrieved16 November2020.
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