Professor Keith Shine
Regius Professor of Meteorology and Climate Scienc
Department of Meteorology
University of Reading
United Kingdom
Biography
Professor Keith Shine is currently working as a Regius Professor of Meteorology and Climate Science in the Department of Meteorology, University of Reading , United Kingdom. Responsibilities: Department Director of Impact Research Interests: • The Earth's radiation budget • Radiative impact of water vapour and its continuum • Radiative forcing of climate change, including its impact on global precipitation • Metrics to place human emissions on a common climate-equivalent scale • Links between aviation and climate change Current Research Projects: • Securing Multidisciplinary UndeRstanding and Prediction of Hiatus and Surge events(SMURPHS), funded by the Natural Environment Research Council • Extratropical climate change in the upper troposphere and the routing of aircraft (EXTRA), funded by the Natural Environment Research Council • Air Traffic Management for Environment (ATM4E) which is a SESAR 2020 European Project • Radiative Forcing, as part of the Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service (CAMS)
Research Interest
• The Earth's radiation budget • Radiative impact of water vapour and its continuum • Radiative forcing of climate change, including its impact on global precipitation • Metrics to place human emissions on a common climate-equivalent scale • Links between aviation and climate change
Publications
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de F F, Piers M, Shine KP. Stratospheric water vapour changes as a possible contributor to observed stratospheric cooling. Geophysical research letters. 1999 Nov 1;26(21):3309-12.
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Shine KP, Fuglestvedt JS, Hailemariam K, Stuber N. Alternatives to the global warming potential for comparing climate impacts of emissions of greenhouse gases. Climatic Change. 2005 Feb 1;68(3):281-302.
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Shine KP, Bourqui MS, Forster PD, Hare SH, Langematz U, Braesicke P, Grewe V, Ponater M, Schnadt C, Smith CA, Haigh JD. A comparison of modelâ€simulated trends in stratospheric temperatures. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 2003 Apr 1;129(590):1565-88.
