Camilla Mathison

Profile

I joined the Met Office after completing my degree, a BSc in Applied Mathematics from the University of St Andrews. While working at the Met Office I completed an MSc in Meteorology and Climate from the University of Reading and several years later a
PhD in Climate science, here at the University of Leeds. My PhD used JULES for simulating the impacts of climate on rivers, irrigation and crops in South Asia. Now I lead a team at the Met Office developing a capability to enable the rapid assessment of climate scenarios to provide mitigation advice to government customers and support Earth system model development.

Research interests

I am interested in developing ways of improving our mitigation advice for example providing analyis of new scenarios rapidly once they become available and providing additional information beyond the standard global mean temperature. I lead the development of our Earth system emulator, PRIME which is designed to meet this need using the FaIR simple climate model, climate patterns and the JULES, the land surface scheme used in UKESM. This paper describes this new framework here: GMD - A rapid-application emissions-to-impacts tool for scenario assessment: Probabilistic Regional Impacts from Model patterns and Emissions (PRIME). We aim to provide UK government with the most up-to-date climate information so that the latest science can inform the development of climate policy to avoid the most dangerous impacts of climate change and give UK government a strong voice in global climate negotiations.

Outside of work I am a keen advocate of active travel and I enjoy riding my bike to and from work and whenever I can any other time because cycling is a crucial way to reduce our emissions and is great fun.

Qualifications

• BSc Applied Mathematics
• MSc Weather and climate modelling
• PhD climate science

Professional memberships

• Fellow Royal Met Soc