There are many opportunities for suitably-qualified students to do a PhD degree in Meteorology, Atmospheric Physics or Atmospheric Chemistry at universities in the UK. Brief details, and links to Departmental websites, for some of these are given below. From time to time, research opportunities leading are announced via the Met-jobs mailing list.
National Centre for Atmospheric Science
Walker Institute
Grantham Institute
Tyndall Centre
Climatic Research Unit
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
Course organisers: if your PhD website is not listed below, please contact education@rmets.org to ensure it is included.
The Centre has a very active research programme in all aspects of atmospheric chemistry and dynamics. For more details of our areas of research and PhD opportunities, please visit our website or those of the individual departments.
The School of Environmental Sciences is one of the longest established, largest and most fully developed Schools of Environmental Sciences in Europe. In the most recent Research Assessment Exercise, the School was rated 'double 5*', the highest possible research ranking and in the most recent Teaching Quality Assessment, it was awarded an 'excellent' rating. The School offers the following research courses: MSc by Research, MPhil and PhD.
For details see here.
The Global Change Research Institute at the University of Edinburgh offers postgraduate training (PhD and MRes) in a number of topics in atmospheric science. Information about PhD courses can be found at https://www.ed.ac.uk/geosciences/postgraduate/phd/programmes-supervisors/physical-sciences/phd-projects/GC
Also available is information on the MSc in Earth Observation and Geoinformation Management at https://www.ed.ac.uk/geosciences/postgraduate/taught-masters/msc-earth-observation
A description of current research and post-graduate opportunities in Space and Atmospheric Physics at Imperial College may be found on this webpage.
Information on current PhD topics in the field of in air pollution can be found here.
PhD positions are occasionally available here. For further details visit their webpage.
Projects are available in the research areas of atmospheric dynamics (especially mesoscale meteorology), atmospheric chemistry, and aerosols and clouds. Our research covers fieldwork, modelling and laboratory studies from the boundary layer to the stratosphere. See here www.see.leeds.ac.uk/study/phd/index.htm for more information.
The Atmospheric Science Group at Manchester works in the areas of the microphysics of clouds and aerosol, heterogeneous atmospheric chemistry, radiative transfer, the deposition, conversion and transport of atmospheric pollution, thunderstorm electrification, atmospheric dynamics and remote sensing. Approximately 4 or 5 Research studentships are available each year to work within these broad areas. Potential applicants are referred to the group web pages for further information.
Each year there are opportunities for doctoral research in some of the following areas: space and ground-based experiments for observing the Earth and its atmosphere; space experiments for observing the planets; climate change; modelling of the Earth's atmosphere; atmospheric modelling of other planets; laboratory fluid dynamics. For details see here.
The department carries out research in both dynamical and physical meteorology with a broad range of topics covering field work, lab work, theoretical and numerical modelling and has about eight or nine NERC studentships available each year. For details of PhD research in the Department, see here.
The hydrometeorology group at Salford specializes in radar and lidar remote sensing. The current research profile encompasses water resource modelling, the assimilation of data into forecasting models and the affects on urbanization on the atmospheric boundary layer. More details can be found here.