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For the American memoirist, see Emily Rapp Black.

Emily Black is a British environmental scientist. As of July 2024, she is Professor of Meteorology at the University of Reading and a senior research fellow in National Centre for Atmospheric Science (Climate).[1]

Background and scientific career

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Black completed an MA in Natural Sciences at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge in 1996 and PhD at Wolfson College, University of Oxford in 1999. She moved to the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (Climate) at the University of Reading in 2000 and was promoted to Professor in 2018. Black leads the Tropical Applications of Meteorology using Satellite data (TAMSAT) programme which provides early warning of rainfall excess and deficit for the whole of Africa.[2][3]

Research interests

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Black's research focusses on the variability in the hydrological cycle and its associated hazards, particularly relating to human impacts.[4][5][6][7] She is an expert in land-atmosphere interactions and their impact on climate.[8][9] Black also advises policy and response to changing rainfall,[10][11] primarily through the TAMSAT programme.[12][13]

Awards and honours

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2021 Times Higher Education (THE) Awards Research Project of the Year (STEM) for work on TAMSAT[14]

2020 The Royal Meteorological Society Hugh Robert Mill Award, which recognises original research related to rainfall.[15][16]

2016 Appointed Associate Editor for Royal Meteorological Journal, Atmospheric Science Letters

References

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  1. ^ "University of Reading". University of Reading - Emily Black page. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
  2. ^ "Dr. Emily Black – HYDROC". Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  3. ^ "TAMSAT | www.tamsat.org.uk". www.tamsat.org.uk. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  4. ^ "Emily Black". scholar.google.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  5. ^ Black, Emily; Mithen, Steven; Hoskins, Brian; Cornforth, Rosalind (2010-11-28). "Water and society: past, present and future". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 368 (1931): 5107–5110. Bibcode:2010RSPTA.368.5107B. doi:10.1098/rsta.2010.0216. PMID 20956362. S2CID 36600875.
  6. ^ Mithen, Steven; Black, Emily, eds. (2011). Water, Life and Civilisation: Climate, Environment and Society in the Jordan Valley. International Hydrology Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511975219. ISBN 978-0-521-76957-0.
  7. ^ "Zambian farmers benefit from millions in insurance pay-outs thanks to Reading data". archive.reading.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  8. ^ "Guest post: Attributing changes in regional rainfall to human activity". Carbon Brief. 2016-06-06. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  9. ^ Sarojini, Beena Balan; Stott, Peter A.; Black, Emily (July 2016). "Detection and attribution of human influence on regional precipitation". Nature Climate Change. 6 (7): 669–675. Bibcode:2016NatCC...6..669S. doi:10.1038/nclimate2976. ISSN 1758-6798. S2CID 89283664.
  10. ^ "Tropical crops could suffer as climate change brings longer dry spells". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  11. ^ "The week ahead at the London Assembly". London City Hall. 2014-05-30. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  12. ^ "predicting-drought". www.reading.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  13. ^ danaallen (2019-01-28). "A new early warning and decision support system: TAMSAT-ALERT". Weather and Climate @ Reading. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  14. ^ THE. "THE Awards 2022". the-awards.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  15. ^ "Royal Meteorological Society". RMetS. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  16. ^ "PR857103 - University of Reading". www.reading.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
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