Message
from Dr Rob Allan, Climate Scientist,
Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research,
Meteorological Office, Bracknell, Berkshire, UK
I joined the Hadley Centre at the Meteorological Office in
the UK in mid-2000 after some 10 years working for CSIRO’s Atmospheric
Research Division in Melbourne, Australia. My research focuses on the El Niño
Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomena, interannual to secular scale climatic
variability and climate change. I am also responsible for the development,
quality control and archiving of the Hadley Centre’s historical gridded
global monthly mean sea level pressure (MSLP) data set (HadSLP) and the historical
global land and island MSLP data base. In addition to producing scientific
papers, have been involved with several book publications. I was the lead
author on El Niño Southern Oscillation and Climatic Variability (CSIRO
Publishing, 1996), and have chapters in Climates of the Southern Continents:
Present, Past and Future (Wiley, 1998), Meteorology of the Southern Hemisphere
(AMS, 1998) and El Niño and the Southern Oscillation: Multiscale Variability,
Global and Regional Impacts (CUP, 2000). I am currently working on material
for a book detailing the life of the meteorologist Sir Gilbert Walker.- Rob