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Provisional new record for highest temperature in UK

Today the Met Office observations team has received a new provisional figure of 38.7 Celsius from Cambridge University Botanic Garden.  The current highest temperature on record for the UK is 38.5 Celsius, recorded in Faversham in August 2003. The temperature recorded yesterday at Cambridge

United Kingdom Chemistry and Aerosols (UKCA) Model

, it began as a joint project between the Met Office and the Universities of Cambridge and Leeds. Since then, contributions to UKCA are also being provided by work at the Universities of Oxford, Reading, East Anglia and Lancaster. For further information on UKCA, see UKCA hosted by the University

David Thomson

. methods of using dispersion models with measurements of pollutants to understand the pollution sources, in particular to estimate how much is emitted and where it is emitted from. Career background David received a BA in mathematics from Cambridge University in 1980 and, after a further year

Microsoft Word - 2020_05_july_temperature.docx

was also recorded in Oxfordshire, Warwickshire and Northamptonshire. The maps below compare daily maximum temperatures on 31 July 2020 and 25 July 2019 (when the UK record of 38.7°C was set at Cambridge Botanic Garden). On 31 July 2020 temperatures across central England were widely 12°C or more above

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Up to £1.2billion for weather and climate supercomputer

. The Materials and Molecular Modelling Hub Led by: UCL Partners: Queen Mary University of London, Queen’s University Belfast, Brunel University, Imperial College London, King’s College London, Universities of Cambridge, Lincoln, Kent, Reading, Southampton and York EPSRC support: £4.5 million Materials

Dr Alison Stirling

. Career background Alison joined the convection group at the Met Office having obtained a degree in theoretical physics from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in astronomy from the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh. She took a secondment to work as a post-doc in the Astrophysics

heavy-rainfall---east-uk-20_21-october-2001---met-office.pdf

, consists of the data which was available from the real time network on 22 October 2001. Rainfall amounts The following rainfall information is based on data available from our real time network on 22 October 2001. Looking back at our available records for our 3 sites in Cambridge

Dr Robert Dunn

the Met Office in 2010 in the Climate Monitoring and Attribution team. Before that he worked as a post-doc at the University of Southampton and at the Excellence Cluster "Universe" in Munich, studying the behaviour of solar-mass black-holes over time from their X-ray emission. He received his PhD from the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge, which followed on from an MSci in Natural Sciences (Physics) from Cambridge University.    

caa-case-study-2---tropical-maritime.pdf

Case 2 Route: Cambridge to Gloucester (VFR) Date: 11 th March 2017, departing 08 UTC Let’s take a look at the weather forecast, assess the potential threats and start investigating how to mitigate against these risks. a. Synoptic situation Describe the broad features in the synoptic chart, what

Dr Samantha Pullen

information from cloudy infrared satellite imagery, and assimilation of tropical convective rainfall rates derived from infrared imagery.   Before joining the Met Office, Samantha gained a PhD from Cambridge University, using model temperature errors to study middle latitude ozone depletion. As an undergraduate Samantha received a degree in Natural Sciences, also from Cambridge University.

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