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in Africa. Two distinct strands of the programme are working towards this aim, with clear objectives around influencing policy development and improving governance, and improving the quality and relevance of weather and climate information. The African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC) is one of two fund

-exclusionary nature of forecasts (which makes it difficult to track cause and effect); the highly variable nature of the climate, forecast use and impact; and the use of information is also influenced by a range of other agricultural measures and by famers’ varying skills, aims and challenges. Water

. In order to evaluate the influence of climate change on crop water consumption, changes in air temperature and relative humidity were simulated using the PRECIS climate model. Two scenarios of emissions were evaluated based on the report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: a pessimistic named

. We examine how improved representation of small scale processes in the atmosphere and ocean (such as atmospheric weather phenomena including mid-latitude storms and tropical cyclones, and ocean eddies) influence the large-scale mean state, variability and extremes of the simulated climate

in climate influence tea production is an active area of research. Climate services that provide tailored sectoral climate information to stakeholders in the tea growing industry are essential to help people prepare for and adapt to the risks that human-induced climate change poses to the sector. © Crown

May 2024’s average mean temperature of 13.1°C for the UK beat 2008’s previous record figure of 12.1°C in a series which dates back to 1884. The month’s mean temperature has been influenced particularly by above average temperatures in the northern half of the UK, with Scotland’s May mean

.   As well as causing future impacts, human-induced climate change has already influenced extreme weather in the UK. Research has shown climate change made the 2018 record-breaking UK summer temperatures about 30 times more likely than it would be naturally. Additionally, a separate study found

al., 2019) Japan, July 2018 237 fatalities, more than 6,000 buildings destroyed by floods and landslides. Rainfall increased by 7% by recent rapid warming. (Kawase et al., 2020) River flows Observed changes in river flows influenced by climate change, between 1971 and 2010. Declining flows

, models must include all these influences. The Met Office’s decadal prediction system, DePreSys, starts its forecasts from observed atmospheric and oceanic conditions and incorporates projected emissions and natural climate forcings. Retrospective tests show that DePreSys improves predictions

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