Richard Washington

POSITION

Professor of Climate Science & Director of the Radcliffe Meteorological Station

EMAIL

richard.washington@ouce.ox.ac.uk

WEBSITES

Departmental 

INTRODUCTION

Richard Washington specialises in African climate science and runs the African Climate research group. Richard has served as Principal Investigator of the £3.3m NERC Consortium Fennec--The Saharan Climate System, Principal Investigator of the £1.1m NERC research grant Dust Observations for Models, and the Co-Investigator of BoDEx (Bodele Dust Experiment). He is currently the Oxford Principal Investigator on the Future Climate for Africa UMFULA (Uncertainty Reduction in Models for Understanding Development Applications) and IMPALA (Improving Model Processes for African Climate) projects. FCFA is a c£20m programme. Richard is also a Co-Investigator of the CLARIFY (Clouds and Aerosol Radiative Impacts and Forcing Year 2016) project and the water security project 'Reach'. There are two primary themes to this research, all of which has an African focus, namely African climate change and dust storms.

AREAS OF INTEREST

Dust Storms; African Climate Change

RESEARCH GROUPS AND COLLABORATIONS

African Climate Research Group

PUBLICATIONS

https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Richard-Washington-12316987