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Answer: True The more air pollution that is around us, the bigger the risk to our health. This is because air pollution can travel all around our bodies and is especially harmful to our hearts, lungs and brains. It can make us unwell so, it’s best to have less air pollution! Q3. Any amount of air
to be between 0.28°C and 0.77°C above the long-term (1981-2010) average. This compares with an anomaly of +0.44 ± 0.1 °C observed in 2015, currently the warmest year on record on record. These high global temperatures are consistent with continued high levels of greenhouse gases and big changes
, providing detailed information to aid decision-making across the public sector and private industry. Enormously ambitious project Dr Jean Innes, CEO at The Alan Turing Institute, said: “This project aims to tackle the big hold-out problem in weather prediction – fast and accurate prediction of impactful
to continued climate change Severe risks are generally seen to occur sooner (i.e. at lower warming level) than previously thought. There are big regional variations in impacts and vulnerability, with Africa being particularly impacted The Met Office and the IPCC have enjoyed a long working
; progress towards a sustainable funding model for the Met Office Hadley Centre; very strong performance of the Met Office Business Group; agreement to form an Environmental Futures and Big Data hub in collaboration with the University of Exeter; the start of the winter season’s services; positive
This was a good example of how the timing of just one weather system can make a big difference to monthly rainfall statistics. On 30 April parts of Devon had around 60% of the rainfall expected for the whole month, pushing the statistics closer to the monthly average overall. If that rain had
and services, support national and international needs, and respond to emergencies. Introducing our National Capability Weather and climate is big science, requiring large numbers of observations and data, large scale software and large-scale compute and storage. Because of this, the UK requires
and services; exascale computing and big data technology; world-leading work of the Met Office Hadley Centre; and prediction of environmental risks. � The Board discussed the report of the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee. � Next meeting to be held on 25 July 2017.
informed the Board that the Met Office’s success in the Computer Weekly Social Media awards was a very big success against stiff competition. • JH informed the Board about a visit from Netherlands Met Service, KNMI • JH also discussed his visit to American Met Society conference, where he had talked about
. Their skills incorporate working with cloud computing technologies, Big Data and novel analysis techniques. Engage the expertise of our world-leading weather and climate scientists to solve your complex industry challenges Our scientists have impressive credentials and experience consulting
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