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Record breaking and extreme weather has become increasingly commonplace in the UK as our climate has changed over the last few decades.

The latest assessment of the UK’s climate shows how baselines are shifting, records are becoming more frequent, and that temperature and rainfall extremes are becoming the norm. The latest State of the UK Climate report, published by Wiley in the Royal Meteorological Society’s ‘International

PAKISTAN NEPAL BHUTAN QATAR UNITED ARAB EMIRATES OMAN BANGLADESH MYANMAR (BURMA) LAOS INDIA CAMBODIA VIETNAM UM Partnership: The Unified Model (UM) is a suite of earth system modelling software used for weather and climate modelling applications. The UM Partnership enables scientific and technical

of how to use the  influence of the measurements in space and time in a balanced, tractable way.” Darren Ghent, leader of the European Space Agency’s Climate Change Initiative (ESA CCI) Land Surface Temperature project and leader of one of the strands of work in EUSTACE agrees: “EUSTACE developed

persistently mild and wet it has been, particularly in the south and this is largely due to the influence of Atlantic low-pressure systems bringing a predominant mild, south-westerly flow. This mild, wet theme is also true of winter overall.”  How wet has February been? It was also a wetter than average

Factsheet 5 of 6 Version date: Dec 2019 Risk management of climate thresholds and irreversible change: A Seasonally Ice-free Arctic What is the nature of the threshold? Arctic sea ice fluctuates on a yearly basis with a minimum coverage in September. The past few decades have seen a considerable

need to be involved in helping manage and Could climate change have an influence on these events in the future? 15 minutes Groupwork Slide 7 Weather warriors scenarios Action plan template Who can help? profiles Using the action plan template (found on page 7), ask the pupils to use their notes

water pollution and affect people’s ability to travel. How could we deal with these issues? • Who do weather warnings apply to? • important for the safety of communities? • mitigate the risks in the ways you have identified? • Could climate change have an influence on these Why is receiving weather

-case were analysed, to identify the marginal benefits and cost (savings) of: Counterfactual One: A ‘standard’ versus the current ‘world-leading’ weather and climate service, taking into account the international influencing role of being ‘world-leading’, where ‘standard’ includes meeting only

Outlook for global climate in the coming years

levels of greenhouse gases. Introduction Decadal forecasts are designed to predict fluctuations in the climate system over the next few years. They take into account natural variability as well as human influences. This is achieved by initialising climate models with observations of the current

the north of the UK – including large mature trees – leading to major disruption. The unusual direction of the strongest winds - northerly as oppose to prevailing westerly – may have been an additional factor influencing the number of trees brought down. More than one million homes experienced