Basic Keyword Search

The catalogue home page takes you into the simple keyword search where you can search for words or phrases appearing anywhere in a record.

The search defaults to searching our entire collection (All UKMET items) but you can use the drop down options to limit your search to specific collections for example just books or journal articles.

Tips

• For exact matches enter the search in double quotes. For example: "meteorology at sea".
• You can use the near operator to search for words within 10 words of one another.
• For plurals use an asterisk*. For example: numerical model* will find numerical models, numerical modelling, numerical modelling.
• For author search enter in double quotes as "surname followed by first initial" for example "folland C".
• Remember you can restrict your search to search within a specific collection (articles, books etc.).

Search examples

Keyword search  on cloud or clouds, restricted to our book collection.

Keyword author search for peer reviewed articles by a specific author published for the Met Office.

Keyword phrase search on the phrase "shipping forecast" or "shipping forecasts" across the whole collection.

Use can the ADVANCED SEARCH to search for more than one criteria using the AND/OR operators and to limit by publication YEAR

Searching for Met Office publications

Our science regularly appears in books, reports and peer reviewed journals and you can browse publications by Met Office scientists via the online catalogue.