David Carson – New Director of WCRP

Dr. David John Carson assumed resposibility as Director of the Joint Planning Staff of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) in June 2000. He succeeds Professor Hartmut Grassl, who has returned to his director's post at Max-Planck Institute in Hamburg.
David Carson became Director of Climate Research at the UK Meteorological Office in 1990 and, in that capacity, the first Director of the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research. After almost 9 years at the Hadley Centre , he moved in Nov. 1998 to become the Director of Numerical Weather Prediction in the UK Meteorological Office.