Dr Charles Williams

Biography

Dr. Charles Williams is currently working as a Senior Research Fellow (NCAS Climate) in the Department of Meteorology, University of Reading , United Kingdom. Responsibilities: Climate Scientist (Research Staff). Research Interests: • African climate variability and change, and climate extremes • Indian monsoon variability and change • Land-atmosphere interactions, and associated impacts on climate • Impacts of regional climate variability and change on society, and adaptation/resilience building to climate shocks Research Projects: • Hydrometeorological feedbacks and changes in water storage and fluxes in Northern India (Hydroflux-India) • Comparing Atmosphere-Land surface feedbacks from Models within the tropics (CALM) • Understanding rainfall variability and extreme events over southern Africa (Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship) • Tropical Applications of Meteorology using Satellite data (TAMSAT) Other interests • Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) • Chair of the Climate Change Research Group (CCRG), one of the research groups of the RGS • Science communication and the use of social media

Research Interest

• African climate variability and change, and climate extremes • Indian monsoon variability and change • Land-atmosphere interactions, and associated impacts on climate • Impacts of regional climate variability and change on society, and adaptation/resilience building to climate shocks