Collaborative projects

Met Office scientists are continually working with other organisations around the world. The aim is to build academic and research relationships with centres of excellence, by combining skills, capabilities, and aligning research and development programmes.

Other projects include:

• GRAS SAF — the GRAS Meteorology SAF is a EUMETSAT-funded project to develop and run an operational radio occultation system responsible for delivering refractivity, temperature, pressure, and humidity profiles in near-real time. The project also develops portable software products for numerical weather prediction models and carries out related research. The GRAS SAF is led by the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), with partners Met Office, ECMWF and IEEC (Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya). Project details can be found on the DMI web site.
• The Short-Range Numerical Weather Prediction Network (SRNWP) — is a group of European National Weather Services aiming to promote closer co-operation in the development of techniques for short-range, high-resolution numerical weather prediction.
• Marine Meteorology — the Met Office run one of two Global Collecting Centres within the Marine Climatological Summaries Scheme under the WMO Marine Meteorology Programme.