Weather science technical reports
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| Report No. | Title | Author(s) | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 667 | Urban-scale Modelling for WesCon | Kirsty Hanley and Humphrey Lean | 2025 |
| 666 | Application of bias correction to the Met Office operational storm surge forecast | Clare O'Neill, Andy Saulter, Christopher Stokes, Breogán Gómez | 2025 |
| 665 | Communicating Probability Forecasts – will people understand? | Ken Mylne | 2024 |
| 664 |
Extracting untapped information from ensembles in support of advice, guidance and storylines |
Helen Titley, Steve Willington, Brian Ancell, Daniel Etheridge, Rebekah Hicks, Caroline Jones, Robert Neal, Phil Relton, Nigel Roberts, Adrian Semple and Brent Walker | 2024 |
| 663 | Glossary of terms for Ensembles | Ken Mylne, Oak Wells, David Walters, Adam Scaife , Nigel Roberts, Rosa Barciela | 2024 |
| 662 |
Nicola Stebbing, Claire Witham, Frances Beckett, Helen Webster, Lois Huggett, and David Thomson |
2024 | |
| 661 |
Assessment of the Met Office Global Coupled model version 4 (GC4) configurations |
Prince Xavier, Martin Willett, Tim Graham, Paul Earnshaw, Dan Copsey, Charline Marzin, Alistair Sellar, Duncan Ackerley, Oscar Alves, Ed Blockley, Alejandro Bodas-Salcedo, Andrew Bushell, Neal Butchart, Daley Calvert, Jeong-A Cho, Dan Copsey, Catherine de Burgh-Day, John Edwards, Paul Earnshaw, Kalli Furtado, Paul Field, Catherine Guiavarch, Sam Hardy, Chris Harris, Karen Heywood, Julian Heming, Harry Hendon , Helene Hewitt, Pat Hyder, Yu-Kyung Hyun, Seung-Hwon Hyun, Sarah Ineson, Richard Jones, Jiyeong Kim, Ki-Young Kim, Nick Klingaman, Richard Levine, Sang-Min Lee, Kyriaki Lekakou, Adrian Lock, Gill Martin, Pierre Mathiot, Alex Megann, Andrew Meijers, Ja-Yeon Moon, Olaf Morgenstern, Rachel North, George Nurser, Yeon-Hee Park, Leighton Regayre, Malcolm Roberts, Jose Rodriguez, Jeff Ridley, Rick Rawlins, Bablu Sinha, Beoncheol Shin, Adrian Semple, Dave Storkey, David Stephens, Taehyoun Shim, Lorenzo Tomassini, Yoko Tsushima, Helen Titley, Warren Tennant, Vidya Varma, Michael Vellinga, Graham Weedon, Keith Williams, Young-Min Yang, Maggie Zhao, Xiaobing Zhou, Hongyan Zhu |
2024 |
| 660 | Examining the dynamical response to convective heating using an idealised version of the Met Office’s Unified Model. |
Stratton, R.A. ; Stirling, A. J. |
2024 |
| 659 | Updates to the global FOAM system including model and data assimilation changes. | Carneiro, D.M.; Waters, J.; Lea, D.; Martin, M.; While, J.; Weaver, A.; Vidard, A.; Guiavarc’h, C.; Storkey, D.; Ford, D.; Blockley, E.; Baker, J.; Haines, K.; Price, M.; Bell, M.; Renshaw, R. | 2024 |
| 658 |
An analysis of the impact of Ocean Gliders on the AMM15 model. |
Worsfold, M.; Good, S. | 2023 |
| 657 | Assessing the impact of including a global ocean ensemble system in the Met Office coupled Numerical Weather Prediction system | Lea, J.D.; Martin, M.J.; Price, M.; Roberts-Jones, J.; Tennant, W.; Harris, C. | 2023 |
| 656 | Improved satellite detection of volcanic ash | Saint, C. | 2023 |
| 655 |
Met Office Global Wave Model: Description and annual performance review, June 2022 to May 2023 |
Gómez, B.; Saulter, A. | 2023 |
| 654 | The Met Office Unified Model GA7.2GL8.1 and GA7.2.1GL8.1.1 configurations: Developments from GA7GL7 |
Willett, M.R.; Brooks, M.E.; Edwards, J.M.; Lock, A.P.; Malcolm, A.J.; Muller, E.H.;Tennant, W.J. | 2023 |
| 653 | Review of literature on remote sensing technologies and applications for volume/profile measurement of wind and turbulence | Sheridan, P. | 2019 |
| 649 | Sensitivity of Convective Forecasts to Driving and Regional Models During the 2020 Hazardous Weather Testbed | Flack, D.L.A.; Bain, C.; Warner, J. | 2021 |
| 648 | Towards a global sulphur dioxide forecast capability for aviation |
Witham, C.; Kristiansen, N.; Beckett, F.; Marenco, F. | 2021 |
| 647 | Investigating How the Choice of Stratospheric Meteorological Data Influences Volcanic Ash Forecasts Within the London VAAC Area of Responsibility | Stebbing, N,; Beckett, F.; Jones, A. | 2021 |
| 646 | Metrics for assessing the impact of observations in NWP: a theoretical study. Part II: suboptimal systems | Eyre, J. | 2021 |
| 645 | Short-range ocean forecast error characteristics in high resolution assimilative systems | Carneiro, D.M.; King, R.; Martin, M.; Aguiar, A. | 2021 |
| 644 | Quality-control of vehicle-based temperature observations and future recommendations | Bell, Z.; Dance, S.L.; Waller, J.A.; O'Boyle, K. | 2021 |
| 643 | Metrics for assessing the impact of observations in NWP: a theoretical study. Part I: optimal systems | Eyre, J. | 2021 |
| 642 | The effect of different levels of coupling in surface wind waves along the NWS during extreme events | Valiente, N.G.; Saulter, A.; Lewis, H. | 2021 |
| 641 | Recent results of observation data denial experiments. | Candy, B.; Cotton, J.; Eyre, J. | 2021 |
| 640 | An assessment of GNSS radio occultation data produced by Spire | Bowler, N.E. | 2020 |
You can access the complete series of these technical reports which are available in our Digital Library & Archive:
- Forecasting Research and Technical Report Archive 32-
- Short Range Forecasting Division Technical Report 1-31
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