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factsheet_20-from-sorcery-to-supercomputers_2023.pdf

diaries throughout his career which include, amongst other things, mention of the Battle of Trafalgar and a secret code which we still haven’t cracked but arguably the single most important diary entry dates to 16th January 1806 when, as Commander of HMS Woolwich he wrote the following words

pioneers_scott-bae-1910_1913_2023.pdf

in their tent, trapped by howling blizzards, waiting for death; by 29 March 1912 all were dead. The unusually cold temperatures that prevailed over an extended period of several weeks substantially contributed to the suffering endured by Scott and his team during the final stages of their battle for survival

remember_world-war-one-and-two_2023.pdf

warfare Following the first use of chlorine gas the Army’s General Headquarters in the Field in France also requested forecasts of probable changes in surface wind direction and force. German forces had deployed Chlorine Gas for the first time on 22 April 1915 at the opening of the Second Battle

ukcp18-newsletter-july18-v2.pdf

Ocean to our west, the Arctic to the north and continental land masses to the east and south. The consequence of this is that our climate is highly variable as the battle of competing air masses plays out over our heads at the whims of the meandering atmospheric jet stream and slowly evolving oceanic

mwr_2023_03_for_print_v2.pdf

of 40cm in some higher-lying Sheffield suburbs. There was also significant transport disruption with road closures and several thousand affected by power outages in Northern Ireland. A similar combination of road closures and local power outages affected parts of North Wales. After a battle between

factsheet_10-air-masses-and-weather-fronts_2023.pdf

Meteorologist Wilhelm Bjerknes identified that the area associated with weather fronts was the battle ground between two opposing air masses. As the First World War had just finished, Bjerknes decided to call this area a ‘front’. The idea that the boundary between a warm air mass and advancing cold air mass

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