Keith Shine | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1958-04-19)19 April 1958 (age 67)[2] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | meteorology and climate science |
| Institutions | University of Reading |
| Thesis | Some development of a zonally averaged climate model (1981) |
| Doctoral advisor | Bob Harwood |
| Doctoral students | Piers Forster[1] |
| Website | www |
Keith Peter Shine (born 19 April 1958)FRS[3] is theRegius Professor ofMeteorology andClimate Science at theUniversity of Reading.[4] He is the first holder of this post, which was awarded to the university byQueen Elizabeth II to markher Diamond Jubilee.[3]
Shine was educated atHalesowen Grammar School andImperial College London where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree inPhysics[2] in 1978.[5] He completed his postgraduate education at theUniversity of Edinburgh, where he was awarded a PhD inmeteorology in 1981 for research supervised by Bob Harwood.[6]He now teaches atmospheric physics to second year students at the University of Reading.
Shine's research interests are in meteorology and climate science, with a focus on understanding how human activity initiatesclimate change.[7][8][9][10][11] He has also investigated the role played bywater vapour in theEarth's energy budget, which considers the energy flows both into and away from theEarth in the form ofshortwave radiation from theSun andoutgoing longwave radiation from the Earth and itsatmosphere, respectively.[3]
In addition, Shine is at the forefront of identifying and quantifyingradiative forcing, a way of measuring the strength ofclimate change mechanisms. He has been heavily involved in major United Nations' assessments of climate change andstratosphericozone depletion, and was a lead author of theIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 1995IPCC Second Assessment Report.[3]
Prior to working at Reading in 1988, he heldpostdoctoral research posts at theUniversity of Liverpool andUniversity of Oxford.[2][5]
Shine was elected aFellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2009.[3]
"All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available underCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." –"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved9 March 2016.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Academics | |
| People | |
