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Albert is Director of the Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate Science and Services.

Areas of expertise Climate datasets Current and historical climate trends Climate change scenarios for the future Current activities As Director, Albert has responsibility for the strategic leadership of the Met Office Hadley Centre and its staff. He represents the work of the Centre

where she spent 3 years in the Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting Group at the Joint Centre of Hydrometeorological Research, Wallingford. She developed the offline MOSES-PDM (Met Office Surface Exchange Scheme - Probability Distributed Moisture) model within the UK Post Processing System (UKPP

. Career background Mohit joined the Met Office Hadley Centre in September 2009. From January 2003 to August 2009 he was working at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), an organisation under the Indian IT Ministry. His work involved providing model development, configuration

Area of expertise Aviation Air traffic management Airport and airline operations Current Activities Emma has been Met Office NATS Operations Manager since 2017, leading a team of six Senior operational meteorologists based at NATS’ Swanwick Control Centre. She works with key decision-making

Airport due to strong crosswinds. Weather data The satellite image at 1305UTC on 15 December 2018 shows the centre of Storm Deirdre to the south of Ireland, with associated fronts almost entirely swathing the UK in cloud. Image copyright Met Office / NASA / NOAA. The analysis chart at 1800 UTC

precisely. This is similar to the natural chaos within our climate system - the butterfly effect mentioned earlier. But, if we repeat this experiment and drop more and more balls in, a distribution forms at the bottom. What we can see is that a ball is more likely to land near the centre

Hazard Partnership (NHP) and the Natural Hazard Centre (NHC). The Board noted that the NHP was a very successful partnership supported by the Civil Contingency Secretariat. � The Board were given an informational presentation about the development of the Space Weather service as part of the Hazard

the polar stratosphere tilts away from the Sun during the winter, the air above the pole becomes extremely cold becoming as low as minus 80 Celsius by December. Circulating around this cold pool is the stratospheric polar vortex with an area of low pressure at its centre. The vortex appears each

computer in 1959. Operational weather forecasts, driven by NWP, began six years later in 1965.  1991: The Unified Model The Unified Model, which allows seamless weather and climate modelling, was implemented in 1991. This was a year after the Hadley Centre for Climate Science and Services was founded

with intermediaries in Nairobi (Kounkuey Design Initiative (KDI)) and Dar es Salaam (Centre for Community Initiatives (CCI)) to build their expertise and the range of tools available to them. Together they created a framework and toolkit to underpin a new communication system for the creation, flow