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representative) briefed the Board on the focus of activities at BEIS, including spending review allocations which were due to be decided in the next few weeks. He noted the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast’s (ECMWF) decision to locate their new HQ in Reading and thanked the Met Office

Michael Hein-Griggs, University of Reading The Representation of Extreme Precipitation in the HadRM3P Regional Climate Model Book Faisal Al Zawad, 2009: Climate Change in Saudi Arabia on a Regional Scale: Impacts on Evaporation, Surface Runoff and Soil Moisture "This book is the first in introducing

and contributing to the annual three-day SRAG meeting at the Met Office, Exeter, routinely held in January, including preparation through reading background papers. The next meeting will take place 19-22 January 2026. Contributing to the yearly SRAG report that is delivered to Government within 6 weeks

.”  “A long, prolonged spell of dry and settled conditions was only interrupted by a wet few days in western Scotland in the first half of the month, and cold nights have been the norm across the UK, especially in northern England and Scotland, with the lowest reading coming in at –9.4°C at Tulloch Bridge

, and how we can build greater resilience. Organised by: CICERO, Met Office, University of Exeter, University of Leeds, University of Reading EU Pavilion virtual event Peatlands Pavilion UNFCCC side event Throughout COP26 there may be other events that the Met Office is supporting, for example through

by helping nations move away from expensive post-disaster emergency aid towards anticipatory action to ensure long-term food security and climate resilience. ASPIRE was delivered from March 2017 to March 2020 by a consortium including the Met Office, Walker Institute at the University of Reading

the way that the Unified Model solves Newton's laws (the part of the model that is referred to as the dynamical core). The project was called GungHo and ran for 5 years and involved natural and computational scientists from the Met Office, the universities of Bath, Exeter, Leeds, Manchester, Reading

from the Board Effectiveness Review were tabled. While the top-level summary was that the Board was working well, there were suggestions to take forward, including around continuing to engage the Board with strategy formulation. The feedback would be collated and distilled into recommendations to table at the next meeting. Rob Woodward closed the meeting. The next meeting was scheduled for 27 March at the University of Reading.

late to be useful to farmers resulting in the forecast being made available earlier. The communities that embrace these kinds of initiatives see a substantial improvement in crop yields. An agro-pastoralist in Garissa, Kenya, reading climate advisories (Source: CARE ALP/E. Aduma, 2014) Create a safe

2014 respectively. For each of these events the pressure approached or fell below 950 hPa; readings as low as this are relatively rare for UK land stations. The lowest reading was 936 hPa at Stornoway on 24 December; the lowest UK pressure recorded since 1886 (Burt, 2007). Rainfall The succession