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150 years. Furthermore, the strong scientific evidence that climate is changing as a result of human influence is also based on the growing evidence that other aspects of the climate system are changing. These include the atmosphere becoming more moist; global rainfall patterns changing; reductions

. The Met Office global temperature forecast for 2021 is slightly lower than some previous years since 2015, largely because of the influence of La Niña in the tropical Pacific, where sea surface temperatures are 1.0-2.0 °C below average. La Niña is the opposing side of El Niño and has a temporary

The Yangtze River Basin is home to more than 400 million people and is a key agricultural region in China. The region is prone to flooding on a semi-regular basis due to the influence of the East Asian Summer Monsoon. Researchers from the Climate Science for Service Partnership China project have

to the satellite image above. An image of the sun during the morning of 16 October 2017 from Met Office Headquarters in Exeter, likely to be caused by a combination of Saharan dust and smoke from Portuguese wild-fires drawn north by the warm southerly airflow; a phenomenon observed widely across southern

Yoko works to quantify and reduce uncertainty in climate change, through understanding and improving the representation of cloud-radiative processes.

feedback is currently the largest uncertainty in GCM predictions of climate sensitivity under climate change. Yoko works on understanding cloud-radiation fields and feedbacks using satellite observations and GCMs, including the development of metrics to assess radiative feedbacks in climate models

of HadCM3 (Collins et al., 2011), that used a set of parameter perturbations corresponding to the relevant HadRM3-PPE member. Time series of GMST(t) are smoothed 1 prior to fitting the EV parameters, in order to remove the influence of internal variability and isolate the long-term effects of climate

in modulating climate variability via the influence of sea surface temperatures (Taylor et al. 2002, 2011; Stephenson et al. 2007; Karmalkar et al. 2012). Most of the previous sensitivity studies of RCMs to domain size have dealt with continental or semi-continental regions dominated by land areas

Areas of expertise Interaction between convection and large-scale circulation Climate model development and evaluation Regional hydrological cycles and related extremes Radiative climate feedbacks Publications by Lorenzo Tomassini Current activities Lorenzo is a Senior Scientist on convection

September 2019 Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Briefing Note Global sea level rise – the latest evidence • Observations show sea levels are rising at an accelerating rate and human influence is the dominant cause. • Climate projections show sea level will continue to rise for several centuries

/Green Climate Fund); National Influence � � Policy influencing through enhanced quality and communication of data: Enhanced weather and climate services can underpin more effective policy making and strategic planning (e.g. through national development and sector strategies). Proposals should