Joint Climate Research Programme

The Joint Climate Research Programme, launched on 17 March 2009, is a Met Office/NERC initiative to strengthen the UK’s world-leading reputation in climate science through a number of projects about how we adapt to the effects of climate change.

Objectives

• Ensure that the UK has access to internationally competitive tools for forecasting climate and its impacts.
• Enable closer collaboration between NERC and the Met Office by working to eliminate existing barriers.
• Develop new activities to address critical gaps in existing national portfolio of climate research.
• Develop mechanisms to promote the more effective pull-through of research results into improved climate forecasts.

Subjects covered

• Climate predictions for adaptation.
• Biogeochemical feedbacks and Earth System modelling.