Professor Sir Brian John Hoskins was born on 17 May 1945 and is a British dynamical meteorologist and climatologist based at the Imperial College London and the University of Reading.
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Brian Hoskins is a recipient of the 2024 Japan Prize along with Professor John Michael Wallace in the field of "Resources, Energy, the Environment, and Social Infrastructure" for "Establishment of a scientific foundation for understanding and predicting extreme weather events".
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Brian Hoskins is a mathematician by training, his research has focused on understanding atmospheric motion from the scale of fronts to that of the Earth, using a range of theoretical and numerical models.
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Brian Hoskins is perhaps best known for his work on the mathematical theory of extratropical cyclones and frontogenesis, particularly through the use of potential vorticity.
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Brian Hoskins has produced research across many areas of meteorology, including the Indian monsoon and global warming, recently contributing to the Stern review and the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.
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Brian Hoskins was then Reader in atmospheric modelling and professor of meteorology at the University of Reading.
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Brian Hoskins was Head of the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading and President of the Royal Meteorological Society.
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Brian Hoskins was a Royal Society council member and research professor and the first Director of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London.
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Brian Hoskins was part of establishing the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London, an international centre for climate change research.
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Brian Hoskins has been Council member for the Natural Environment Research Council that funds and supports most of the environmental research in the UK, and has held numerous roles for the Met Office, most recently as non-executive director and Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board.
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Brian Hoskins has made contributions to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change scientific assessments.
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Brian Hoskins was appointed to the UK Committee on Climate Change, which has been influential in the Government's decision to commit to an 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.