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www.viewpoint-cssp.org Risks to food security in China under climate change A briefing on research from the Climate Science for Service Partnership (CSSP) China for decision-makers in China No. 03 The CSSP China project is investigating how climate change will affect agricultural systems

The influence of mountains and hills on both local weather and large-scale weather systems.

blocking, hills and mountains influence the development of weather systems and the global atmospheric circulation. These processes need to be represented in weather and climate prediction models. Our research explores several aspects of atmospheric flow over orography. These include investigations

Climate Change (OCDC) group. His research interests include: the impact of resolution and vertical coordinate systems on the ocean models’ representation of the bottom topography influence on the oceanic flow (e.g., gravity currents, currents steering); accurate numerical schemes for computing horizontal

A United Nations global campaign launched today sees children calling for pledges to help prevent the worst impacts of climate change.

of climate change Prof Lizzie Kendon is a Climate Scientist at the Met Office. She said: “The climate my children will experience will be very different to the climate I experienced as a child. The science is clear, our climate is changing, with impacts around the globe due to human influence. Climate

The dynamical core Modern computer models of the atmosphere include many complex physical processes that each have local influences and feed back into the general circulation. At the heart of these models, however, is the solution of the dynamical equations of motion (Newton's laws applied to a gas

weather and climate science and services to reduce the risk from weather and climate. Developing a “seamless” weather and climate modelling system requires the partnership to: • Carry out world leading weather and climate science and translate this into a prediction system; • Deliver technological

South West England: climate The counties included in this area are Cornwall, Devon and Somerset together with the four administrative areas around Bristol (formerly Avon) and the Isles of Scilly. Much of the landscape of Devon and Cornwall consists of plateaux at varying levels. The plateaux

).1.2 Seasonal climate drivers of South Asia 1.2 Seasonal climate drivers of South Asia The climate of South Asia varies from year-to-year due to the influences of large-scale climate drivers that vary on interannual and intraseasonal timescales. The key drivers of this variability are described

for Winter (DJF) and Summer (JJA) Methods � Domain selection: 3 main influences-Arctic, Pacific and Atlantic air masses; avoiding the Rocky mountains to be in the western edge of the domain (Fig 1) � Validation data set: monthly observations 50X50 km 1. CRU (Climate Research Units)—temp, precip 2. UOD

Lizzie is a Scientific Manager and Met Office Science Fellow, leading pioneering work to use very high resolution (km-scale) climate models for understanding future changes in high impact weather events.

. These models are also able to better represent the influence of mountains, coastlines and cities on our local climate compared to more traditional climate models. As a result, convection-permitting models are able to provide credible projections of future changes in local weather extremes, including