The UK Regional Specialized Met Centre (RSMC) is operated from the Met Office headquarters in Exeter. RSMC Exeter and RSMC Toulouse have joint responsibility for Environmental Emergency Response requirements in World Meteorological Organization (WMO) regions VI and I which covers Africa and Europe.

In the event of a nuclear accident a National Met Service within our area of responsibility or International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) may request services from the RSMC. Once this request is received we initiate a run of the NAME dispersion model using default values and distribute the output to the originator of the request. We also inform the other RSMC, WMO and IAEA that this request has been received. When the event is confirmed by IAEA we will distribute the products by fax to all other National Met Services within Africa and Europe and liase with Toulouse over the joint statement. The joint statement is guidance for meteorologists and other specialists in interpreting the model output and is issued only after agreement has been reached between RSMCs.

The dispersion model output consists of five charts. One 3D trajectory chart one total deposition chart and three dosage charts covering the 72 hour forecast.

Complete details on the service can be obtained from the Environmental Emergency Response pages of the WMO web site.

RSMC Exeter output page (password protected)