Vicky Pope is head of the climate predictions programme at the Hadley Centre. She spent 6 years as manager of atmospheric climate model

Global climate model

A General Circulation Model is a mathematical model of the general circulation of a planetary atmosphere or ocean and based on the Navier–Stokes equations on a rotating sphere with thermodynamic terms for various energy sources . These equations are the basis for complex computer programs commonly...

 development and evaluation. Since October 2004 she has been Head of the Climate Prediction Programme which provides independent scientific advice on climate change

Climate change

Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions or the distribution of events around that average...

. Her research interests include developing and validating climate models.

In an interview for The Guardian

The Guardian

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newspaper, she said:

"very few" scientists disputed the latest IPCC

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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 report. "The consensus

Scientific opinion on climate change

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 on warming

Global warming

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 since the 1850s is that a large part is due to man's activities

Attribution of recent climate change

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," she said. "That's the line of the IPCC report and that position is strengthening. It is a very widespread consensus. There are a few very vocal people who are sceptics, only some of whom are actually scientists. Sceptics obviously have a place in the community." link

Publications

PM Inness, JM Slingo, SJ Woolnough, RB Neale, VD Pope, 2001, Organization of tropical convection in a GCM with varying vertical resolution; implications for the simulation of the Madden-Julian Oscillation, Climate Dynamics vol. 17 no. 1, p. 777-793

• VD Pope, ML Gallani, PR Rowntree, RA Stratton, 2000, The impact of new physical parametrizations in the Hadley Centre climate model: HadAM3, Climate Dynamics vol. 16 no. 2-3, p. 123-146.
• WA Lahoz, A O'Neill, A Heaps, VD Pope, R Swinbank, RS Harwood, L Froidevaux, WG Read, JW Waters, GE Peckham, 1996, Vortex dynamics and the evolution of water vapour in the stratosphere of the southern hemisphere, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society vol. 122, issue 530, pp. 423–450 link
• AO'Neill, WL Grose, VD Pope, H Maclean, R Swinbank, 1994, Evolution of the Stratosphere during Northern Winter 1991/92 as Diagnosed from U.K. Meteorological Office Analyses, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences volume 51, issue 20 (October 1994) pp. 2800–2817 link
• A O'Neill, VD Pope, 1988, Simulations of linear and nonlinear disturbances in the stratosphere, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society vol. 114 issue 482, pp. 1063–1110 link
• CR Mechoso, A. O'Neill, D Pope, JD Farrara, 1988, A study of the stratospheric final warming of 1982 in the southern hemisphere, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, vol. 114 issue 484, pp. 1365–1384 link
• MJ Bailey, AO'Neill, VD Pope, 1993 Stratospheric Analyses Produced by the United Kingdom Meteorological Office, Journal of Applied Meteorology vol. 32 no. 9 pp. 1472–1483 link

External links

• http://talk.workunlimited.co.uk/life/science/story/0,12996,1371593,00.html
• Hadley Centre
• Hadley Centre list of technical notes
• http://www.pac.ne.jp/IUGG2003/EN/program.asp?session_id=MC11&program_id=021048-1
• http://www.theclimategroup.org/index.php?pid=623
• http://csdl.computer.org/comp/mags/cs/2002/05/c5064abs.htm
• http://news.independent.co.uk/low_res/story.jsp?story=606607&host=3&dir=58
• http://www.oxonia.org/WE%201-8/WE_1-8_article11.html