Research news
Research news brings you regular updates on some of the latest research activities and developments within the Met Office.
Articles will 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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Stratospheric aerosols and their impact on Sahelian rainfall
The Sahelian drought of the 1970s-1990s was one of the largest humanitarian disasters of the last fifty years.
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AVOID
The AVOID programme for researching dangerous climate change held its final symposium on the 12 February at the Royal Society in London.
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Understanding climate change impacts on the Amazon rainforest
A summary of recent advances in Met Office simulation of vegetation response in the Amazon from climate change alone.
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Decadal Forecasting - What is it and what does it tell us?
A more in-depth briefing on decadal forecasts and how to use them .
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Nowcasting Demonstration
very short-range forecasting over the southern UK using the Unified Model and 4D-VAR
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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.
