Adam A. Scaife is a British physicist and head of long range prediction at the Met Office.[1] He is also a professor at Exeter University.[2]
Scaife carries out research into long range weather forecasting and computer modelling of the climate and has published over 250 peer reviewed studies[3] on atmospheric dynamics, computer modelling and climate as well as popular science [4][5]
and academic books[6] on meteorology.
Career
Scaife studied Natural Sciences (Physics) at Cambridge University (1988–1991), Environmental Science at Surrey University (1991–1992) and was awarded a PhD in Meteorology from Reading University (1999, academic advisor Prof Ian N James).
He joined the Met Office in 1992 where he worked on climate dynamics and the development of improved computer models of the climate.[7][8][9][10] He also joined Exeter University as Professor in Applied Maths in 2017.
Many of his studies show how predictable factors[11][12][13][14]
affect weather from months to decades ahead. Since 2003 he has led teams of scientists in the Met OfficeHadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, working on climate modeling and long range weather prediction. He now leads research and production of monthly, seasonal and decadal predictions at the Met Office.[15][16] Scaife and his team have made recent advances in long range weather forecasting[17] and have uncovered the paradox that current climate models are better at predicting the real world than they are at predicting themselves.[18] Scaife's recent research demonstrates a link between year to year climate predictions, subtle changes in the rotation rate of the Earth and hence the length of day.[19]
^Scaife, Adam A.; Butchart, Neal; Warner, Christopher; Swinbank, Richard (2002). "Impact of a Spectral Gravity Wave Parameterization on the Stratosphere in the Met Office Unified Model". Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 59 (9): 1473–1489.
^Scaife, Adam A.; Butchart, Neal; Warner, Christopher; Stainforth, David; Norton, Warwick; Austin, John (2000). "Realistic Simulations of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in a simulation of the global climate". Geophysical Research Letters. 27 (21): 3481–3484. doi:10.1029/2000GL011625.
^Butchart, Neal; Scaife, Adam (2000). "Removal of chlorofluorocarbons by increased mass exchange between the stratosphere and troposphere in a changing climate". Nature. 410: 799–802. doi:10.1038/35071047.