Keith Shine
Template:EngvarB Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox scientistKeith Peter Shine (born 19 April 1958) FRS<ref name=frs/> is the Regius Professor of Meteorology and Climate Science at the University of Reading.<ref name=AllenFuglestvedt2016>Template:Cite journal</ref> He is the first holder of this post, which was awarded to the university by Queen Elizabeth II to mark her Diamond Jubilee.<ref name=frs/>
EducationEdit
Shine was educated at Halesowen Grammar School and Imperial College London where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics<ref name=whoswho/> in 1978.<ref name=orcid/> He completed his postgraduate education at the University of Edinburgh, where he was awarded a PhD in meteorology in 1981 for research supervised by Bob Harwood.<ref>Template:Cite thesis Template:Open access</ref> He now teaches atmospheric physics to second year students at the University of Reading.
ResearchEdit
Shine's research interests are in meteorology and climate science, with a focus on understanding how human activity initiates climate change.<ref name=HaynesMcIntyre1991>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref name="RamaswamyChanin2001">Template:Cite journal</ref><ref name=MyhreHighwood1998>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref name="Shine1999">Template:Cite journal</ref><ref name=HaywoodShine1995>Template:Cite journal</ref> He has also investigated the role played by water vapour in the Earth's energy budget, which considers the energy flows both into and away from the Earth in the form of shortwave radiation from the Sun and outgoing longwave radiation from the Earth and its atmosphere, respectively.<ref name=frs/>
In addition, Shine is at the forefront of identifying and quantifying radiative forcing, a way of measuring the strength of climate change mechanisms. He has been heavily involved in major United Nations' assessments of climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion, and was a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 1995 IPCC Second Assessment Report.<ref name=frs/>
Prior to working at Reading in 1988, he held postdoctoral research posts at the University of Liverpool and University of Oxford.<ref name=whoswho>Template:Who's Who</ref><ref name=orcid>Keith Shine's Template:ORCID</ref>
Awards and honoursEdit
Shine was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2009.<ref name=frs>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: Template:Quote</ref>