Articles cover subjects including significant updates to our modelling capabilities, emerging and innovative research activities, and research that can help us to understand current global and UK weather impacts.

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  Improved marine predictions for UK waters

  The Met Office makes daily predictions of the temperatures, currents, nutrients and plankton in the seas around the UK. Major improvements to these predictions were introduced at the end of March 2012.

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  COLPEX

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  Monitoring volcanic plumes from space

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  CMIP5 contribution

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  Hurricane season ends

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  Double dip for La Niña

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  The UKV model

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  High resolution typhoon simulations

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  Dust Forecasting

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  Project UPSCALE

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  Solar variability

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  Declining sea ice

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  Ensemble severe weather forecasts