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Northern Scotland: climate This describes the main features of the climate of Northern Scotland, comprising Highland Region, the Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland. The principal mainland geographic features comprise the Grampian Mountains and the northern Highlands, which rise steeply from

Understanding climate impacts on food, forestry and ecosystem services in an integrated way.

assessments of how climate change could impact on food, forestry and ecosystem services. To improve climate model projections by representing important processes that influence the climate, e.g. agriculture, deforestation and permafrost. Current projects Impacts of climate change and deforestation in Brazil

Martin leads the research and development in the representation of energy and water cycles on the land surface within our weather and climate models.

the development of the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES), the UK’s community land surface model. JULES provides a modelling capability for research and development by the UK and international land surface community, while remaining intimately linked to the Met Office weather and climate models

of greenhouse gases. However, global temperatures for 2024 and 2023 have been elevated slightly by a process of natural climate variation known as El Niño, where warmth from the tropical Pacific warms the global atmosphere. Sea-surface temperatures have also been warmer than average across much

workshops. Studying the influence of climate change on extreme events Extreme event attribution investigates the influence of human-induced climate change on extreme weather events. Through using computer models, researchers can assess how climate change influenced the likelihood and intensity

to climate change, a graph from Carbon Brief HOT POETS - Elvis McGonagall, Extreme Weather Report, written for the Met Office, a film from Tongue Fu UK and Global extreme events – Heavy rainfall and floods, an infographic from the Met Office What if you had the power to change the weather? Which

at relatively high temporal resolution.  This can positively influence Met Office Numerical Weather Prediction models's analyses of the Earth's atmosphere via a 4D-Var assimilation system, and hence improve our forecast skill. Career background Ruth has been working in the Met Office's Satellite

Climate modelling at the Met Office

many times, each time with a slightly different starting set-up, you can sample a broader range of the possible future outcomes. This is really important for understanding how climate change might influence the likelihood of extreme events – which are relatively rare by their nature. Running more

rise varies from place to place and increases in higher emissions scenarios. Emissions scenarios explained To predict the severity of climate change and therefore future sea-level rise, we make assumptions about economic, social, and environmental changes that influence climate change. Each

to date (typically 100–300 km) inhibits their ability to represent the interactions of synoptic-scale weather systems with local terrain and mesoscale processes. These interactions not only determine the mesoscale detail of climate patterns and variability but may also profoundly influence