Bartholy, Judit

Meteorologist

She was born in 1952 in Budapest. She obtained a degree in meteorology from the Eötvös Lóránd University (ELTE). The subject of her thesis was the orthogonal reading of meteorological field lines. She worked in the Central Meteorological Institute of the National Meteorological Service from 1976 to 1992 and then she became reader at ELTE, head of the Department of Meteorology and head of department and university professor from 2000. Her teaching and research work is related to climatology. Her main fields of interest are the regional scaling and modelling of global climate changes, the climate modifying effect of towns, the possibilities of using renewable sources of energy and extreme climate conditions. She is the leader of a number of Hungarian and international projects.

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