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Tom M.L. Wigley
Date and place of birth
18 January 1940; Adelaide, South Australia
Academic Record:
| 1959 |
B.Sc. (University of Adelaide)
Major subjects: Pure
Mathematics III (Distinction), Applied Mathematics III
(Distinction), Physics III (Credit) |
| 1960 |
B.Sc. Hons (University of Adelaide)
Mathematical Physics
(IIA) |
| 1961-2 |
Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology Training
Course
(standing: first) |
| 1967 |
Ph.D. (University of Adelaide)
(Mathematical Physics:
Dissertation entitled 'Problems in Plasma Dynamics and Fluid
Mechanics') |
Awards:
| 1991 |
Member, Academia Europaea |
| 1992 |
Sixth Annual Climate Institute Award |
| 1993 |
Who's Who in the World, Eleventh Edition,
1993/1994 |
| 1997 |
Outstanding Scientific Paper Award, National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, Environmental Research
Laboratories |
| 1998 |
Norbert Gerbier - MUMM International Award for the paper
entitled "A search for human influences on the thermal structure
of the atmosphere" by B.D. Santer et al., published in
Nature, Vol. 382, July 1996 |
Biographical details:
Tom Wigley was born and educated in Australia. His undergraduate
(honours) degree was in Mathematical Physics, completing three majors
(Pure Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Physics) instead of the
normal two. He then trained as a meteorologist at the Bureau of
Meteorology Training School (a 15-month course), subsequently working
for a year as a research meteorologist before returning to university
to do a Ph.D. His doctoral dissertation in the Department of
Mathematical Physics, University of Adelaide, dealt with the kinetic
theory of plasmas.
After graduating in 1967, he joined the faculty of the Mechanical
Engineering Department at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
where he stayed until 1975. Here he taught courses in applied
mathematics, statistics, air pollution and meteorology. Apart from
completing some work in plasma physics while on leave at the U.K.
Atomic Energy Authority in Culham, U.K. during 1969, his main research
interests during this period were in air pollution and aqueous
geochemistry. The former included important work of the dynamics and
dispersion of industrial plumes (particularly moist plumes), while the
latter produced highly cited papers on the dissolution kinetics of
calcite, chemical modelling and carbon isotope geochemistry.
In 1975, he moved to the U.K. to take up a "soft money" research
job in climatology, in the then fledgling Climatic Research Unit in
the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia,
Norwich, U.K. In 1978, on the retirement of Professor H.H. Lamb, he
became Director of the Unit. Since then, the Unit has become firmly
established as one of the world's leading centres in climatology. In
1993, he resigned as Director of the Climatic Research Unit to take up
the position of Director of the Office for Interdisciplinary Earth
Studies at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research,
Boulder, CO. He was appointed as an NCAR/UCAR Senior Scientist in
1994.
Wigley has published in diverse aspects of the broad field of
climatology; from data analysis, to climate impacts on agriculture and
water resources, to climate, sea level and carbon cycle modelling, to
paleoclimatology. He has concentrated recently on facets of the
greenhouse problem, and contributed as a lead author in each of the
six recent major reviews of this problem (US DOE, WMO/UNEP/ICSU-SCOPE,
and the 1990, 1992, 1994 and 1995 IPCC Reviews). He is one of the most
highly cited scientists in the discipline.
Appointments:
| 1962-3 |
Meteorologist, Research Section, Commonwealth Bureau of
Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia |
| 1968-72 |
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada |
| April-December 1969 |
Vacation Associate, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority,
Culham Laboratory, Abingdon, Berks, U.K. (on study leave from
University of Waterloo) |
| 1972-75 |
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada |
| September 1972-April 1973 |
Visiting Fellow, Research School of Pacific Studies,
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (on study
leave from University of Waterloo) |
| 1975-78 |
Senior Research Associate, Climatic Research Unit,
University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K. |
| 1978-93 |
Director, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia,
Norwich, U.K. |
| Jan. 1987- |
Professor (personal chair in climatology), School of
Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia |
| 1993-1994 |
Director, Office for Interdisciplinary Earth Studies (OIES),
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), Boulder,
CO |
| July 1994- |
Senior Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research
(NCAR), Boulder, CO. |
Professional Consultant for:
United States Atomic Energy Commission
Ontario Hydro-Electric
Power Commission
Canada Department of the Environment
Eastman
Kodak Company
Tennessee Valley Authority
United Nations
Development Programme, Morocco
U.K. Overseas Development
Administration
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations
British Petroleum Research Centre
U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency
Electric Power Research Institute
U.K.
Department of the Environment
United Nations Environment Programme,
Nairobi
Center for Nuclear Waste Regulatory Analyses, Southwest
Research Institute
Hagler Bailly Consulting, Inc.
Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory
Science and Policy Associates,
Inc.
Other Items:
(*indicates currently active)
National or International Committees
U.K. Department of the Environment Steering Group for Climatic
Change
Natural Environment Research Council Stable Isotope Project
Coordinating Panel
SCOR/IOC Committee on Climatic Changes and the
Ocean (CCCO)
Panel on Paleoclimatology
Royal Meteorological
Society Council
UNEP Correspondence Group on the Interface between
Climate (Global Circulation) Models and Crop-Climate
Models
Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics Subcommittee, British
National Committee for Geodesy and Geophysics
International
Commission on Climate of the International Association of Meteorology
and Atmospheric Physics
Technical Advisory Panel, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, Global Change Research
Program
Chairman, Climate Hazards Coordination Group, Commission of
the European Communities, Climatology and Natural Hazards
Programme
Atmospheric Sciences Committee, Natural Environment
Research Council
Forestry Research Co-ordination Committee, Review
Group on Climatic Change and Forestry
Electric Power Research
Institute, Global Climate Advisory Committee
Science Review Group,
Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, U.K. Meteorological
Office
*Electric Power Research Institute, ACACIA (A Consortium for
the Application of Climate Impact Assessment) Planning
Committee
*American Geophysical Union, Atmospheric Sciences
Section, Climate and Paleoclimate Committee
*United Nations
Environment Program (UNEP) Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel
(STAP) of the Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Editorial
Editorial Board, Climatic Change (Kluwer Academic
Publishers)
Editorial Advisory Board member, Atmospheric
Sciences Library (Kluwer Academic Publishers)
*Editorial Board,
Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change (Kluwer
Academic Publishers)
*Editorial Advisory Board member,
Encyclopedia of Climate & Weather (Robert Ubell
Associates)
*Editorial Board, Global Climate Change Digest
(Elsevier Science Publishing Co., Inc.)
*Editorial Board,
Climatic Dynamics (Springer-Verlag)
*Referee for numerous
journals
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