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This page lists all of the archive news stories from 2005, These articles have been archived from our old website and are downloadable in pdf format.


 
January 2005
Press release: UK-Japan Collaboration: Climate Science for the 21st Century
January 2005 icon Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, to attend Launch of Major UK-Japan Initiative at British Embassy (84.92 kB)
January 2005 icon Congratulations to Professor Alan Thorpe – to become new Chief Executive of NERC (69.63 kB)
January 2005 icon The Rain in Cumulus over Oceans (RICO) field campaign is underway in Antigua (141.58 kB)
January 2005 icon Congratulations to Dr Paul Monks and Dr Eiko Nemitz - Winners of the EUROTRAC-2 (78.47 kB)
March 2005
Professor Julia Slingo, new director of NCAS Centre for Global Atmospheric Modelling

March 2005

FAAM - Final Acceptance Certificate is signed for Research Aircraft BAE 146 - see FAAM "Bulletin Board"
April 2005 Ozone Layer Most Fragile on Record - Professor John Pyle (ACMSU) reports from the Geophysical Union meeting in Vienna
 
April 2005
 Press release -  Impact of climate change on crops worse than previously thought

April 2005
 Press release - Weather forecasting can improve delivery of humanitarian aid
April 2005 icon Food Crops in a Changing Climate (152.38 kB)- Joint NCAS Centre for Global Atmospheric Modelling, Royal Society and University of Reading discussion meeting 
April 2005 icon Professor Stephen Mobbs - Appointed New Director of NCAS (77.56 kB)
June 2005 icon The Convective Storm Initiation Project (CSIP) begins in earnest! (137.76 kB)
June 2005 icon NCAS scientists input statement to the G8 on crop production and climate change (142.29 kB) – Royal Society press release
June 2005 Congratulations to Professor David Fowler - CEH Edinburgh Atmospheric Sciences - David has been awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours in recognition for services to research into atmospheric pollution
June 2005 UWERN creates extra website - Welcome to UWERN UM Support
June 2005 Press release on CGAM science: Climate change sceptics out in the cold
July 2005 NCAS/CGAM press release: icon A warm Atlantic linked to hot summers over Europe and US (73.07 kB) 
July 2005 Climate Change and Africa - icon NCAS scientists plan campaigns (86.23 kB)

August
2005
The Convective Storm Initiation project (CSIP) recieves media coverage
 
August 2005
 "Storm-Chasers take to the Skies" - Online Exhibit and Summer exhibit on show at London's Science Museum
August 2005 icon NCAS II funding proposal and NCAS Annual Reports now available (63.6 kB)

August 2005
Press release: City-scale air pollution measured for the first time
August 2005 CGAM contributes largely to Joint China/UK workshop on Climate Change, 18-20 July, Beijing
Date: July 18th -20th 2005
Venue: National Natural Science Foundation of China, Beijing

October 2005

CGAM PhD student, Jane Strachan, given the chance to advise parliament on climate change
October 2005 CGAM in the News - BBC Online: Heatwave Makes Plants Warm Planet

October 2005 FAAM: Scientific Collaborators Sought for Various Flying Campaigns (see Bulletin Board)
December 2005 Welcome Dr Tracey Henshaw - NERC's new Science & Innovation Manager in Atmospheric Sciences. Contact details now available