Met Office Consulting
As a global leader in probabilistic interpretation of data we have the knowledge to help you minimise the economic impact of climate change to your business.
We offer world-leading expertise to help companies make better informed strategic decisions about the impacts that weather and climate change will have on their business.
Our Met Office Consulting team creates strong and lasting partnerships with our clients, building on a reputation of trust, respect and a shared passion to deliver consistently high results in a changing world.
Our research capability includes:
- Global and regional dynamical climate modelling of the full earth system, including the impacts on cities, rivers, crops and forests
- Robust analysis of the historical climate, enabling detection and attribution of climate events
- Current research themes include hurricanes, quantifying certainty of changes in extreme events and rapid climate change.
Working with you we can:
- Determine the impacts climate change will have on your business and highlight where they will impact safety, or on the bottom line, with a climate change audit
- Tailor our data and models to enable you to best inform your business-critical strategic and operational decisions
- Offer an understanding of the future through risk analysis and long range forecasting, enabling you to make the best choices for your business — maximising safety and minimising losses
- Keep you at the ‘cutting edge’ of climate science and weather advice — keeping you up-to-date and showing the relevance of new discoveries and reports for your business
- Attract and retain world class expertise and work with the most advanced technology to deliver the best weather and climate science to the marketplace.
What they said:
“The Met Office is the jewel in the crown of British Science, and your climate change work is a key driver in evolving government policy.”
Lord Robert May, President of the Royal Society
“I am writing to express my great thanks for the tremendous help that you and your team have given to our Review over the past year. The Met Office Hadley Centre has been invaluable in helping us to build a rigorous scientific basis for our analysis.”
Sir Nicholas Stern FBA, Head of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change
Our Met Office consultants inform a wide range of customers about the likely risks and opportunities that climate change will bring so they can act now to mitigate, adapt to or exploit them. For example, our consultants are currently working with the UK’s leading energy companies to identify the impacts of climate change on their industry and to develop plans to ensure the future of energy provision in the UK.
For more information about our consultings service, please contact our 24-hour Customer Centre or email consulting@metoffice.gov.uk
