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RECIPIENTS OF THE HADLEY METEOROLOGY PRIZE and PAST OBSERVERS

The Hadley Meteorology Prize is awarded each year by Northamptonshire Grammar School to the student showing the greatest level of commitment to the work of Pitsford Hall weather station. The prize has been endorsed by the Royal Meteorological Society, of which the station is a corporate member. Student observers at the weather station carry considerable responsibility in ensuring that the climatological record is maintained and that weather data is recorded accurately on a daily basis to the exacting standards of the United Kingdom Meteorological Office.

George Hadley lived between 1686 and 1768 and was the scientist first to describe the tropical circulation in 1753. He envisaged the heat surplus of the equatorial regions driving large-scale circulation cells consisting of air rising in the tropics and then sinking 30 degrees north and south. This sinking air would then flow back towards the equator. His simple idea was to become the basis of the general circulation of the atmosphere as it is understood today.

Recipients of the Hadley Meteorology Prize:

1999: Martin Sheehy 2007: Christopher Boyson
2000: Simon Fleming
2001: Michael Franklin
2002: Alexander Harvey-Jones
2003: Rachel Toone
2004: Richard Nash
2005: Robert Greenhalgh
2006: Matthew Greenwood-Smith

Martin Sheehy, winner 1999 Michael Franklin, winner 2001 Alex Harvey-Jones, winner 2002 Rachel Toone, winner 2003

Richard Nash, Chief Observer and winner 2004 Robert Greenhalgh, Chief Observer and winner 2005 Matthew Greenwood-Smith, one of the station's longest serving observers, wins the Hadley Met Prize in 2006. Christopher Boyson, Chief Observer and recipient of the Hadley Meteorology Prize in 2007.

Roll of Honour (observers of the past)