Weather science technical reports

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Report No. Title Author(s) Year
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

Can we improve plume dispersal modelling for fire related emergency response operations by utilising short-range dispersion schemes?

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

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