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• Improving Model Processes for African Climate (IMPALA)

  IMPALA is a consortium of the Met Office and leading UK and African institutions including the African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development, the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, and the universities of Cape Town, Exeter, Leeds, Nairobi, Oxford, Reading and Yaounde. The IMPALA

• Met Office climate scientist awarded an OBE

  computer simulations give unprecedented levels of detail about how the UK’s climate will change over the 21st century, providing an essential tool to guide decision-making and boost resilience.   Professor Lowe is also Chair in Interdisciplinary Climate Science at the Priestley Centre, University of Leeds.

• Introduction.indd

  – Climate change risks and vulnerabilities • Step 3 – Identifying adaptation options Acknowledgements Authors: Susanne Lorenz, Peter Walton and Taylor Davenport, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds Acknowledgements: We would like to acknowledge the funding provided from

• Amber warning for rain – January 2021

  National Severe Weather Warning The Amber National Severe Weather Warning includes Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield and Wakefield. It is valid from 0600 on Tuesday morning until midnight on Wednesday night with the potential for up to 120mm in parts of the southern Pennines and northern Peak District

• Intensive weather forecast testbed kicks off in Mozambique, South Africa, and Zambia

  testbed. We hope to leverage these learnings and add to them throughout the imminent intensive testbed,” says Prof Douglas Parker from the University of Leeds and principal investigator for the project. Key technical lessons learnt On the technical side, Dr Itzel San Roman Pineda, testbed lead

• Dr Huw Lewis

  across the Met Office with UK partners. He became Head RMED in 2020. Huw completed a PhD at the University of Leeds, investigating the dynamics of boundary layer flows over steep terrain. As part of his PhD work, Huw took part in a field campaign measuring wind and turbulence over a steep ridge in the Swiss Alps. As an undergraduate, Huw studied Physics with Meteorology at the University of Edinburgh.

• Early Warnings for Southern Africa (EWSA)

  Science and University of Leeds, are delivering a £2 million project under the Weather and Climate Information Services (WISER) Africa programme to transform access to early weather warning systems for urban communities in South Africa, Zambia and Mozambique.  Until 2025, the Early Warnings for Southern

• arrcc_focus_group_summary_0220pdf

  of conducting weather and climate service (WCS) evaluations. The session was led by ARRCC MOP colleagues from the University of Leeds, UK and was held at the Sixth International Conference on Climate Services (ICCS6) in Pune, India on 12 February 2020. The participants The session was attended by 18

• Dr Simon J. Keogh

  with Astrophysics from the University of Leeds and then a PhD at the University of Southampton (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton), in the use of marine radiometers for the correction of satellite sea surface temperatures. Simon began his Met Office career in 1999 after joining the Observations

• UK Climate Resilience Programme infographics

  This project, led by the University of Leeds, reviewed empirical studies from the cognitive and psychological sciences exploring non-experts’ responses to uncertain climate information. We produced two infographics to illustrate the findings from this project.  Download the UKCR communication