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Inaugural
Peter V. Hobbs Endowed Lecturer in Experimental Meteorology
Dr.
Keith A. Browning
FRS, Emeritus Professor, University of Reading
Friday, October 24, 2008
Lecture:
"Origins of the Most Damaging Winds in Extra-Tropical Cyclones"
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About the Speaker
Dr. Browning served as the Director of Research in the UK Met Office. He is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, receiving the Rossby Medal in 2003, Past President of the Royal Meteorological Society, receiving the Symons Gold Medal in 2001, and a Fellow of the Royal Society. His work with Frank Ludlam on the supercell thunderstorm at Wokingham, UK in 1962 was the first detailed study of such a storm. His research covered many areas of mesoscale meteorology including developing the theory of the Sting jet.
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Post-Lecture Reception
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Inaugural reception on October 24, 2008, at Kane Hall. Stephen Hobbs
(left), Ann and Keith Browning, Sylvia Hobbs (right).
Photo: D. Hartmann
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Hobbs Career Information
Professor Peter V. Hobbs was a faculty member of
Atmospheric Sciences at the
University of Washington from 1963 to 2005. He received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, in 1960 and 1963, respectively. Director of the Cloud and Aerosol Research Group at the University of Washington from 1963 to 2005.
Principal research interests were cloud and precipitation physics, mesoscale meteorology, atmospheric chemistry and air pollution.
In addition to his steady stream of discoveries about all aspects of clouds—published in 340 papers—Hobbs advised more than 50 graduate students after arriving at the University of Washington, repopulating the field of atmospheric physics.
None of this would have been possible had Hobbs not had a talent for stringing together the funds for aircraft for 40 years, starting with a WWII vintage bomber previously owned by eccentric billionaire aviator Howard Hughes.
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The CARG's Convair-580 research aircraft in Pietersburg, South Africa, during the SAFARI-2000 Field Project. Photo: NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
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Description of Lectureship
The purpose of the Peter V. Hobbs Memorial Endowed Lectureship in Experimental Meteorology shall be to sponsor open lectures in the field of experimental meteorology. Peter Hobbs felt strongly that the furthering of science must be nurtured through the open exchange of ideas amongst scientists. To that end, he planned to fund an Endowed Lectureship in Experimental Meteorology for the Atmospheric Sciences Department at the University of Washington where he had worked for 42 years.
Peter Hobbs was deeply involved all his working life in the field of experimental meteorology which ranges from the microscale, through the mesoscale, up to the global scale, and includes both the physics and chemistry of the atmosphere. The common threads in this field are the ubiquitous roles played by aerosols, clouds and precipitation in the atmosphere.
The gift to establish this endowed lectureship was made in loving memory of Peter by his wife and three sons.
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Professor Peter V. Hobbs
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