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PILOT STUDIES TO IMPROVE UPTAKE OF CLIMATE INFORMATION 23 rd November 2016 Amihan Conference Room, Science Garden, PAGASA, Quezon City www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph PROJECT APPROACH Phase I: Situation review Review literature Map stakeholders Consult stakeholders Further actions Phase II: Piloting climate

in regard to their livelihoods and well-being and that of their children, families and communities. Ensuring that women of all diversities have access to WCI, ensures that whole families, whole communities, from the populated cities to informal settlements and to remote and rural localities

flights from Heathrow, Gatwick and London City airports were cancelled. Up to 400 vehicles were trapped on the A1 near Peterborough and in Lincolnshire; the RAF used their vehicles to transport health staff to hospitals and to vulnerable people. On the evening of the 1st, a South Western Railway train

was warmer than average but offered more changeable weather than previous months. The opening day saw the highest temperature of the month with 35.8C recorded at Faversham, Kent. There followed about a week of changeable, westerly conditions before the next pronounced period of hot temperatures

to buildings and vegetation. Poor air quality episodes can cover geographic areas from a single city to larger regions, and normally last from days to weeks. Certain air pollutants (such as ozone (O3) and fine particulate matter (PM2.5)) are also ‘radiatively active’, which means they can influence

of receiving it, and do the same with data from a number of other European, Chinese and USA operated satellites. Large sections of the selected images are cloud free, allowing a good view of the surface.  They reveal extensive browning of vegetation caused by the very hot and dry conditions experienced

. 2015) found that human influence on the climate has resulted in an 11-fold increase in the likelihood of extremely hot spring mean temperatures in northern China, like those of 2014. The research also found that the growth of cities and urbanisation has played a small but identifiable role

are observed from the SW. The mountains that surround the city - particularly the Grampians to the N and Southern Uplands to the SE, give shelter and the wind is lightest from these directions. Rainfall – Glasgow is one of the wettest cities in the UK. Much of this rain comes from Atlantic

, even the city centre during storm surges in autumn and winter. Temperature – The compact city centre area is likely to experience warmer temperatures in summer, but only when air blows from the land to the west. Air from the east or southeast in summer keeps Belfast slightly cooler due

The latest animated film from Pixar takes place in Element City, where Fire, Water, Earth and Air residents live together and react in surprising ways; something the Met Office is an expert in.  Ahead of the film’s release on 7 July, the Met Office is collaborating with Disney and Pixar on a suite