Keith Browning

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title: "Keith Browning" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["academics-of-imperial-college-london", "academics-of-the-university-of-reading", "british-meteorologists", "british-fellows-of-the-royal-society", "presidents-of-the-royal-meteorological-society", "carl-gustaf-rossby-research-medal-recipients", "1938-births", "living-people", "uk-met-office-staff-and-researchers"] description: "British meteorologist" topic_path: "philosophy" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Browning" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary British meteorologist ::

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name	Keith Browning
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fields	Meteorology
workplaces	Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, Met Office, University of Reading
alma_mater	Imperial College London (B.S., Ph.D.)
known_for	Supercell, sting jet, and other conceptual meteorological work
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He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1978. He was president of the Royal Meteorological Society from 1988 to 1990.

In 1992, Browning was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for fundamental contributions to the detection and understanding of storms, and the development of operational storm-detection and warning systems.

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References

1. Browning, Keith A.. (April 1962). "Airflow in convective storms". Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.
2. Browning, Keith A.. (November 1964). "Airflow and Precipitation Trajectories Within Severe Local Storms Which Travel to the Right of the Winds". J. Atmos. Sci..
3. Browning, Keith. (November 1965). "Some Inferences About the Updraft Within a Severe Local Storm". J. Atmos. Sci..
4. [http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~mwp/meso/Research/sting_jets.html Sting Jets in Severe Northern European Windstorms] {{webarchive. link. (2014-03-20)
5. "Keith Browning".
6. "Fellows". Royal Society.

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