Royal Meteorological Society

Royal Meteorological Society
Established	3 April 1850 (174 years ago)
Founders	John Lee, James Glaisher, Samuel Charles Whitbread
Types	learned society, open-access publisher
Headquarters	Reading
Country	United Kingdom
Coordinates	51°27′19″N 0°58′50″W / 51.45520991; -0.98063042][[Category:Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas]]"},"html":"Coordinates: </templatestyles>\"}' data-mw='{\"name\":\"templatestyles\",\"attrs\":{\"src\":\"Module:Coordinates/styles.css\"},\"body\":{\"extsrc\":\"\"}}'/>51°27′19″N 0°58′50″W / 51.45520991°N 0.98063042°W"}">
Membership	3,162 (2020)
Affiliations	European Meteorological Society, Science Council, National Council for Voluntary Organisations, International Forum for Meteorological Societies
Revenue	1,106,097 pound sterling (2020)
Employees	17 (2020)
Volunteers	276 (2016, 2017)
Website	www.rmets.org

The Royal Meteorological Society is a long-established institution that promotes academic and public engagement in weather and climate science. Fellows of the Society must possess relevant qualifications, but Members can be lay enthusiasts. Its Quarterly Journal is one of the world's leading sources of original research in the atmospheric sciences. The chief executive officer is Liz Bentley.

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The Royal Meteorological Society traces its origins back to 3 April 1850 when the British Meteorological Society was formed as "a society the objects of which should be the advancement and extension of meteorological science by determining the laws of climate and of meteorological phenomena in general". Along with nine others, including James Glaisher, John Drew, Edward Joseph Lowe, The Revd Joseph Bancroft Reade, and Samuel Charles Whitbread, Dr John Lee, an astronomer, of Hartwell House, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire founded in the library of his house the British Meteorological Society, which became the Royal Meteorological Society.^[1] It became The Meteorological Society in 1866, when it was incorporated by Royal Charter, and the Royal Meteorological Society in 1883, when Her Majesty Queen Victoria granted the privilege of adding 'Royal' to the title. Along with 74 others, the famous meteorologist Luke Howard joined the original 15 members of the Society at its first ordinary meeting on 7 May 1850. As of 2008 it has more than 3,000 members worldwide. The chief executive of the Society is Professor Liz Bentley. Paul Hardaker previously served as chief executive from 2006 to 2012.^[2]

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There are four membership categories:

Honorary Fellow
Fellow (FRMetS)^[3]
Member
Corporate member

The society regularly awards a number of medal and prizes, of which the Symons Gold Medal (established in 1901) and the Mason Gold Medal (established in 2006) are pre-eminent. The two medals are awarded alternately.

Other awards include the Buchan Prize, the Hugh Robert Mill Award, the L F Richardson Prize, the Michael Hunt Award, the Fitzroy Prize, the Gordon Manley Weather Prize, the International Journal of Climatology Prize, the Society Outstanding Service Award and the Vaisala Award.^[4]

The society has a number of regular publications:^[5]

Atmospheric Science Letters: a monthly journal that provides a peer-reviewed publication route for new shorter contributions in the field of atmospheric and closely related sciences.
Weather: a monthly journal with many full colour illustrations and photos for specialists and general readers with an interest in meteorology. It uses a minimum of mathematics and technical language.
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society: one of the world's leading journals for meteorology, publishing original research in the atmospheric sciences. There are eight issues per year.
Meteorological Applications: this is a journal for applied meteorologists, forecasters and users of meteorological services and has been published since 1994. It is aimed at a general readership and authors are asked to take this into account when preparing papers.
International Journal of Climatology: has 15 issues a year and covers a broad spectrum of research in climatology.
WIREs Climate Change: a journal about climate change
Geoscience Data Journal: an online, open-access journal.
Climate Resilience and Sustainability: an interdisciplinary, open-access journal.

All publications are available online but a subscription is required for some. However certain "classic" papers are freely available on the Society's website.^[6]

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The society has several local centres across the UK.^[7]

There are also a number of special interest groups which organise meetings and other activities to facilitate exchange of information and views within specific areas of meteorology.^[8] These are informal groups of professionals interested in specific technical areas of the profession of meteorology. The groups are primarily a way of communicating at a specialist level.

Source:^[9]

1850–1853: Samuel Charles Whitbread, first time
1853–1855: George Leach
1855–1857: John Lee
1857–1858: Robert Stephenson
1859–1860: Thomas Sopwith
1861–1862: Nathaniel Beardmore
1863–1864: Robert Dundas Thomson, died in office^[10]
1864: Samuel Charles Whitbread, second time
1865–1866: Charles Brooke
1867–1868: James Glaisher
1869–1870: Charles Vincent Walker
1871–1872: John William Tripe
1873–1875: Robert James Mann
1876–1877: Henry Storks Eaton
1878–1879: Charles Greaves
1880–1881: George James Symons, first time
1882–1883: Sir John Knox Laughton
1884–1885: Robert Henry Scott
1886–1887: William Ellis
1888–1889: William Marcet
1890–1891: Baldwin Latham
1892–1893: Charles Theodore Williams, first time
1894–1895: Richard Inwards
1896–1897: Edward Mawley
1898–1899: Francis Campbell Bayard
1900: George James Symons, second time; died in office^[11]
1900: Charles Theodore Williams, second time^[12]
1901–1902: William Henry Dines
1903–1904: Captain David W. Barker
1905–1906: Richard Bentley
1907–1908: Hugh Robert Mill
1910–1911: Henry Mellish
1911–1912: Henry Newton Dickson
1913–1914: Charles John Philip Cave, first time
1915–1917: Sir Henry George Lyons
1918–1919: Sir Napier Shaw
1920–1921: Reginald Hawthorn Hooker
1922–1923: Charles Chree
1924–1925: Charles John Philip Cave, second time
1926–1927: Sir Gilbert Walker
1928–1929: Richard Gregory
1930–1931: Rudolf Gustav Karl Lempfert
1932–1933: Sydney Chapman
1934–1935: Ernest Gold
1936–1937: Francis John Welsh Whipple
1938–1939: Sir Bernard A. Keen
1940–1941: Sir George Clarke Simpson
1942–1944: David Brunt
1945–1946: Gordon Manley
1947–1949: G. M. B. Dobson
1949–1951: Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt
1951–1953: Sir Charles Normand
1953–1955: Sir Graham Sutton
1955–1957: Reginald Sutcliffe
1957–1959: Percival Albert Sheppard
1959–1961: James Martin Stagg
1961–1963: Howard Latimer Penman
1963–1965: John Stanley Sawyer
1965–1967: G. D. Robinson
1967–1968: F. Kenneth Hare
1968–1970: John Mason
1970–1972: Frank Pasquill
1972–1974: Robert B. Pearce
1974–1976: Raymond Hide
1976–1978: John T. Houghton
1978–1980: John Monteith
1980–1982: Philip Goldsmith
1982–1984: Henry Charnock
1984–1986: Andrew Gilchrist
1986–1988: Richard S. Scorer
1988–1990: Keith Anthony Browning
1990–1992: Stephen Austen Thorpe
1992–1994: Paul James Mason
1994–1996: John E. Harries
1996–1998: David J. Carson
1998–2000: Sir Brian Hoskins
2000–2002: David Burridge
2002–2004: Howard Cattle
2004–2006: Chris Collier
2006–2008: Geraint Vaughan
2008–2010: Julia Slingo
2010–2012: Tim Palmer
2012–2014: Joanna Haigh
2014–2016: Jennie Campbell
2016–2018: Ellie Highwood
2018–2020: David Warrilow^[13]
2020–2022: David Griggs^[14]

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John Farrah (1849–1907).^[15]

[1]
Early members of the society Archived 4 August 2012 at archive.today
[2]
"An interview with Professor Paul Hardaker, the new Chief Executive of the Royal Meteorological Society". Weather. 61 (11). Royal Meteorological Society: 299. 16 January 2007. doi:10.1002/wea.2006611102. S2CID 247674671.
[3]
The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations. Oxford University Press. 1998. p. 176.
[4]
"Royal Meteorological Society". Archived from the original on 28 August 2018. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
[5]
"Publications – Royal Meteorological Society". Archived from the original on 1 August 2019. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
[6]
"Classic Papers". Archived from the original on 28 December 2019. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
[7]
"Local Centres". Archived from the original on 29 August 2018. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
[8]
"Special Interest Groups". Archived from the original on 27 August 2018. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
[9]
Royal Meteorological Society. "History of the Society: RMetS Past Presidents". Archived from the original on 12 November 2021. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
[10]
"Thomson, Robert Dundas" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
[11]
Lee, Sidney, ed. (1901). "Symons, George James" . Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
[12]
"Royal Meteorological Society". The Times. No. 36076. London. 27 February 1900. p. 5.
[13]
"New President takes up office". Royal Meteorological Society. 1 October 2018. Archived from the original on 12 April 2019. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
[14]
"New President and Vice-Presidents take up office". Royal Meteorological Society. 30 September 2020. Archived from the original on 15 August 2021. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
[15]
"Fellows" (PDF). rmets.org. Royal Meteorological Society. p. 11. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 May 2021. Retrieved 15 May 2021.

[1] [1]
Early members of the society Archived 4 August 2012 at archive.today

[2] [2]
"An interview with Professor Paul Hardaker, the new Chief Executive of the Royal Meteorological Society". Weather. 61 (11). Royal Meteorological Society: 299. 16 January 2007. doi:10.1002/wea.2006611102. S2CID 247674671.

[3] [3]
The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations. Oxford University Press. 1998. p. 176.

[4] [4]
"Royal Meteorological Society". Archived from the original on 28 August 2018. Retrieved 18 August 2015.

[5] [5]
"Publications – Royal Meteorological Society". Archived from the original on 1 August 2019. Retrieved 28 December 2019.

[6] [6]
"Classic Papers". Archived from the original on 28 December 2019. Retrieved 28 December 2019.

[7] [7]
"Local Centres". Archived from the original on 29 August 2018. Retrieved 8 January 2014.

[8] [8]
"Special Interest Groups". Archived from the original on 27 August 2018. Retrieved 8 January 2014.

[9] [9]
Royal Meteorological Society. "History of the Society: RMetS Past Presidents". Archived from the original on 12 November 2021. Retrieved 15 August 2021.

[10] [10]
"Thomson, Robert Dundas" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

[11] [11]
Lee, Sidney, ed. (1901). "Symons, George James" . Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.

[12] [12]
"Royal Meteorological Society". The Times. No. 36076. London. 27 February 1900. p. 5.

[13] [13]
"New President takes up office". Royal Meteorological Society. 1 October 2018. Archived from the original on 12 April 2019. Retrieved 2 January 2019.

[14] [14]
"New President and Vice-Presidents take up office". Royal Meteorological Society. 30 September 2020. Archived from the original on 15 August 2021. Retrieved 15 August 2021.

[RMetS-15] [15]
"Fellows" (PDF). rmets.org. Royal Meteorological Society. p. 11. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 May 2021. Retrieved 15 May 2021.

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