| Citation | Tim Palmer is distinguished for his world leading contributions in a number of high profile areas in atmospheric science. His research benefits from the ability to cross?fertilise between disciplines, from his insight, and from his gift for communication. He took the key initiative toward a breakthrough to modern thinking about the dynamics of the stratosphere and the ozone layer, in terms of planetary wave propagation and breaking. His work on representing the drag due to breaking gravity waves in weather and climate prediction models has been highly influential. Palmer has established himself as a world leader in exploiting nonlinear dynamical?systems concepts and sophisticated mathematical methods, in combination with numerical experiments using large atmospheric models, to predict the predictability of weather and to probe the reasons for, and the possible prediction of, interannual and interdecadal climatic variability. |