Met Office
Professor Jason A. Lowe OBE is a Principal Fellow and Head of Climate Services for Government at the Met Office, and Chair in Interdisciplinary Climate Research, Priestley Centre, University of Leeds.
Jason has over 20 years of experience as a climate researcher and research leader, contributing to scientific journal publications on a diverse range of subjects relevant to both climate mitigation and adaptation. He leads the UKCP project, which developed innovative new climate scenarios for the UK that were used extensively in the most recent UK Climate Change Risk Assessment and are being used in the 3rd National Adaptation Programme. He was also the Met Office lead on the UK Climate Resilience Programme, which explored how to better use climate information to inform risk and resilience. Internationally, Jason has contributed to all three working groups of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and many UN climate reports. He regularly provides advice to Government and other stakeholders on climate variability and change, and sits on a range of steering committees and programme boards that guide the future of climate science and its application.
A particular area of interest for Jason is the construction of high-end climate change scenarios. His early work in this area focused on constructing scenarios for the Thames Estuary 2100 project. He is currently involved in several initiatives focusing on better quantifying, communicating and applying these types of climate scenario. Additionally, he is working with the finance sector to provide better climate information, and better guidance on how it can be used.