Helene Hewitt is a British climate scientist who is a research fellow at the

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. Her research considers climate and ocean models. Hewitt serves on the

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Ocean Model Development Panel. She was awarded an

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in the

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Early life and education

Hewitt is from Sidmouth. She grew up in Wombourne, Staffordshire, where she attended Ounsdale High School. She studied mathematics at the

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, where she was a student at

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. Hewitt was a doctoral researcher at the

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, where she studied the Western Equatorial Pacific Ocean. She worked on the

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and at the

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as a doctoral student.

Research and career

In 1996, Hewitt joined the

, where she has developed and assessed climate models. In 2003, Hewitt was made Head of Ocean and Sea Ice model development. Hewitt's model, HadGEM3, combined

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and CICE, computational models which simulate the movement of sea ice and ocean circulation. Hewitt coordinated the

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on the Ocean, Cryosphere and Sea Level Change. She oversees the Ocean Modelling group at the

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, where she develops global and shelf configurations for coupled predictions across multiple different timescales. Hewitt was appointed an

in the

Selected publications

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hewitt, Helene Living people Year of birth missing (living people) People from Sidmouth British climatologists Alumni of the University of Cambridge Alumni of the University of Southampton People from South Staffordshire District Alumni of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge