Climate Monitoring and Attribution
Developing observational data; monitoring and interpreting climate variations and change.
Climate information and statistics, based on many types of surface, atmospheric and marine measurements, are produced on national to global scales. Climate models are used to attribute causes of past climate change that are seen within the observations.
The datasets produced by our scientists are also used by other science areas. Scientific users throughout the world access the data and statistics via the
HadObs website.
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Causes of changes to different aspects of the climate system are attributed to human and/or natural influences.
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We create datasets and analyses of physical atmospheric and oceanic variables to understand and monitor global climate variability and change.
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Global observations of surface and upper air temperature and humidity, surface pressure and precipitation are used to provide advice on global climate variability and change.
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Observations of ocean temperature, both at and below the surface; salinity, and sea-ice cover are used to provide advice on global climate variability and change.
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The UK climate is monitored by analysing surface observations and placing recent extreme weather events in their historical context.
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The Climate Monitoring and Attribution research area is involved in collaborations with institutions around the world.
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Gridded data sets based on surface observations have been generated for a range of climatic variables and may be downloaded by registered users.
Last updated: 14 March 2014
