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• Seasonal Climate Outlooks

  What is the Seasonal Climate Outlook? Following the El Nino event in 2015, the Met Office worked with the UK Government’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and the University of Reading to design a new service which would provide insights into the upcoming season and enable more

• David Sexton

  jointly with the Met Office and Reading University. In 2002, David moved to the Climate Prediction group to work on climate prediction and led the teams that made UKCP09 and UKCP18 Global. In 2024, David became a Science Fellow. External Recognition Fellow of Royal Meteorological Society, 2006. Winner of the L G Groves Memorial Prize for Meteorology, 2008, for his work on UKCP09.

• UK mobile phones to sound emergency alert test on September 7

  life-saving information and should be kept switched on for your own safety. Those driving at the time of the test should find somewhere safe and legal to stop before reading the message. For more information, please visit gov.uk/alerts.

• Chris Jones

  ), University of Reading, 1997 PhD (Geography), University of Exeter, 2017 Chris joined the Met Office in 1993  and worked for 3 years in Weather Science on data assimilation techniques of radar rainfall data into the UK mesoscale model. Chris moved the Met Office Hadley Centre in 1997 to work

• Professor Stephen Belcher

  and Cambridge Universities. In 1994 he moved to the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading, where he served as Head of the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences between 2007 and 2010.  In 2010 he became the Joint Met Office Chair in Weather Systems. This role gave him a taster

• Dr Nigel Wood

  at Queens' College, Cambridge University. He was fortunate enough to then undertake a PhD, supervised jointly by Dr Paul Mason of the Met Office and Dr Alan Ibbetson of Reading University. The topic of his PhD was turbulent flow over three-dimensional hills, and the numerical model he developed

• UK mobile phones to sound emergency alert test on September 7

  . Those driving at the time of the test should find somewhere safe and legal to stop before reading the message. For more information, please visit gov.uk/alerts.

• Atmospheric dispersion research and response

  and use of probabilistic dispersion forecasts. This involves quantifying the source, meteorological and impact uncertainties. Scientific collaboration and developments with a number of agencies (e.g. Public Health England) and UK universities (e.g., Reading, Bristol, Leeds and Cambridge). We are partners in the EUROVOLC project which aims to promote an integrated and harmonized European volcanological community.

• Dispersion processes and parameterizations

  and improve NAME. Current projects MPI parallelisation of NAME. Improvements to the representation of effects of urban environments on dispersing plumes within NAME. Modelling of volcanic umbrella clouds within NAME. Ongoing validation of NAME against tracer experiments. Scientific collaboration and developments with a number of UK universities (e.g. Reading, Imperial College, Cambridge). Research on concentration fluctuations and buoyancy-driven flows.

• Professor Stephen Belcher awarded CBE in New Years Honours

  at Stanford and Cambridge Universities.   In 1994 he moved to the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading, where he served as Head of the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences between 2007 and 2010.  In 2010 he became the Joint Met Office Chair in Weather Systems. This role gave him a taster of working closely with the Met Office, and in 2012 he joined the Met Office as Director of the Met Office Hadley Centre.