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Julian Hunt, Baron Hunt of Chesterton (born 1941) is a leading
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authority on turbulence modelling and former Director General and Chief Executive of the
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He is Professor of Climate modelling in the Department of Space & Climate Physics and Department of Earth Sciences at
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He was educated at
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and went on to study Mechanical Sciences at
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, Cambridge where he gained a first class honours degree in 1963.
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Professor
Julian Hunt, Baron Hunt of Chesterton (born 1941) is a leading
BritishThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
authority on turbulence modelling and former Director General and Chief Executive of the
UK Meteorological OfficeThe Met Office , is the United Kingdom's national weather service, and a trading fund of the Ministry of Defence. Part of the Met Office headquarters at Exeter in Devon is the Met Office College, which handles the training for internal personnel and many forecasters from around the world...
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He is Professor of Climate modelling in the Department of Space & Climate Physics and Department of Earth Sciences at
University College LondonUniversity College London is a British university institution and a constituent college of the University of London, based primarily in Bloomsbury, London...
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He was educated at
Westminster SchoolThe Royal College of St. Peter in Westminster, almost always known as Westminster School, is one of Britain's leading independent schools,, with the highest Oxbridge acceptance rate of any secondary school or college...
and went on to study Mechanical Sciences at
Trinity CollegeTrinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 160 Fellows ....
, Cambridge where he gained a first class honours degree in 1963. In 1967 he was awarded a PhD on Aspects of Magnetohydrodynamics from Cambridge.
He followed Sir John Houghton as Director-General and Chief Executive of the Meteorological Office in 1992, consequently being to the Executive Committee of the World Meteorological Organisation. Here he was active in negotiating new international arrangements for the exchange of data to ensure that National Meteorological Services world-wide can continue to collaborate with each other at the same time as encouraging the commercial applications of meteorology worldwide. He worked to improve international warnings for disasters ranging from tropical cyclones to volcanoes and to emphasise urban meteorology at WMS. He actively promoted collaboration in Europe and was elected Chairman of the Informal Conference on West European Directors for 1994-95. As chief executive of the Met Office he introduced a programme of Quality Improvement. Arguably his main task was to restructure the Meteorological Office as it made its transition to become a
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in 1996. In 1997 he left the Met Office and was replaced by Peter Ewins.
In recent years he has warned that the pattern of
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n monsoons could be fundamentally altered unless there is a concerted effort to check
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emissions in the area. He was made a life peer as
Baron Hunt of Chesterton, of Chesterton in the County of
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in 2000.
He is the father of historian, broadcaster and journalist
Tristram HuntTristram Hunt is a British historian, broadcaster and newspaper columnist. He also lectures on Modern British History at Queen Mary, University of London....
and journalist and novelist
Jemima HuntJemima Hunt is a British journalist and novelist.She is the author of the books The Late Arrival and Notes from Utopia. She has also ghost written the autobiography of Charlotte Church, Voice of an Angel....
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