Irish Met Society Honorary Life Memberships 2012

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In March 2012 the Irish Met Society committee awarded honorary life memberships to Prof. Peter Lynch and Dr Jim Hamilton, both of whom have contributed significantly to the development of global meteorology.

Peter Lynch is the Director of the UCD Meteorology and Climate Centre and Professor of Meteorology in the UCD School of Mathematical Sciences. His areas of interest are dynamical meteorology and numerical weather prediction. He developed the digital filter initialisation technique used to remove noise in weather models. This technique is now used in NWP models throughout the world.

Jim Hamilton’s work was on computer graphics for displaying meteorological output. He was invited to work at ECMWF for 3 months in the 1980s to implemented his graphics system, and later installed his software in met services throughout the world. Jim also wrote a word processing programme before Microsoft Word existed and developed his own fonts for use with it.