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• Defence services

  In the context of the National Security Strategy, we support and enable the protection, security, independence and interests of the UK and its key allies at home and overseas. This is made possible by exploiting superior meteorological, oceanographic and climate science understanding to deliver

• Defence

  In the context of the National Security Strategy, we support and enable the protection, security, independence and interests of the UK and its key allies at home and overseas. This is made possible by exploiting superior meteorological, oceanographic and climate science understanding to deliver

• met-office-briefing-note-on-lags-in-the-climate-system

  to understand and take action to adapt to the impacts we are already locked into. Introduction The climate system responds to human influences on a range of different time-scales. Changes in the net amount of the sun’s energy absorbed by the Earth, known as the ‘radiative forcing’, happen quickly in response

• northern-scotland_-climate-met-office.pdf

  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

• northern-scotland_-climate-met-officepdf

  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

• corporate_brochure.pdf

  is inextricably linked to climate change’ The proof is in the model Met Office Hadley Centre scientists use a sophisticated computer model to simulate natural factors (e.g. the Sun, volcanic activity) affecting climate change from 1850 to the present — and then compare the model’s output against real-life

• Prof Richard Betts MBE

  Richard is Head of Climate Impacts Research in the Met Office Hadley Centre and a Professor at the University of Exeter. He is currently leading the writing of the Technical Report for the UK's 3rd Climate Change Risk Assessment.

  vegetation model. Between 1994–1998 he also worked on his PhD on modelling the influence of the vegetated land surface on climate, including feedbacks from global vegetation on climate change. Following his PhD, Richard published an influential paper comparing the impacts of carbon uptake

• metoffice_extremeweather_deeperdiscovery_p4c.pdf

  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

• PowerPoint Presentation

  signals from seasonal models are apparent. Much More Likely Below Normal Near-Normal Above Normal Likely Likely Much More Likely Climate Outlook Africa: August to May Overview 5 Global Outlook - Rainfall Outlook: 3-Month Outlook December to February - Rainfall La Niña has a strong influence on global

• Met Office launches new Local Authority Climate Service

  New service provides Local Authorities crucial information on climate change in their area.

  we have in our weather across the UK is a continuing and increasing influence of human induced climate change which is shaping the weather we experience. Most notably we’re seeing more extreme heat and intense rainfall events, with impacts felt at the local level. To deal with this, local