17 News & Press Releases found
The Met Office News
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Effects of ‘high-end’ climate change
The impacts of climate change will be widespread across the globe. Emissions of greenhouse gases have already altered the Earth’s atmosphere and the climate is already changing. We will live with the consequences of these changes for the next few ...
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Pacific continues to influence climate
2009 is expected to be one of the top-five warmest years on record, despite continued cooling of huge areas of the tropical Pacific Ocean, a phenomenon known as La Niña. According to climate scientists at the Met Office and the University of East ...
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Clearer view of the future for fund managers
As the financial markets continue to face an uncertain future, the Met Office has announced an agreement with HSBC to provide weather and climate-change information to fund managers through the creation of a Climate Change Research Facilitation ...
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Climate change and the Thames Estuary
Critical research findings that will help plan future flood risk in the Thames Estuary were revealed recently as part of the Environment Agency’s Thames Estuary 2100 Project — a project that considers an adaptive approach for planning for ...
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IBM to provide next Met Office supercomputer
The Met Office has signed a contract with IBM for its next-generation supercomputer that will underpin its weather forecast and climate research programmes until 2013. The extra computing power means the Met Office can achieve even more-accurate and ...
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Met Office welcomes Pitt Review recommendations on flooding control
The Met Office welcomes calls for a joint centre to deal with the issue of severe weather and flooding in the UK. The final report of Sir Michael Pitt`s Flooding Lessons Learnt Review recommends combining the expertise of the Met Office and the ...
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UK Met Office advances severe weather forecasting
The Met Office has announced significant developments in its science and technology capability to provide more precise pinpointing of where and when extreme rainfall will occur, helping to strengthen the UK’s resilience to major severe weather ...
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UK Met Office releases new groundbreaking sea monitoring system
A ground-breaking Motion Forecasting and Monitoring System has been awarded the prestigious 2007 RINA (Royal Institution of Naval Architects) and LRET (Lloyd`s Register Educational Trust) Ship Safety Award. This successful system from oil and gas ...
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New vision of climate change through Google Earth
Millions of Google Earth users around the world will be able to see how climate change could affect the planet and its people over the next century, along with viewing the loss of Antarctic ice shelves over the last 50 years, thanks to a new project ...
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Amazon under threat from cleaner air, says new study
The Amazon rainforest, so crucial to the Earth’s climate system, is coming under threat from cleaner air say prominent UK and Brazilian climate scientists in the leading scientific journal Nature. The new study identifies a link between reducing ...
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Latest technique in climate forecasts shows decrease in UK summer rainfall
Results from the latest multiple model ensemble techniques in climate change forecasting, published by Britain`s Royal Society, indicate that average summer rainfall for northern Europe could decrease by between 5 and 20 per cent by the end of the ...
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Is global warming all over?
The recent fall in global temperatures has led to increasing speculation that global warming is a thing of the past. Despite this fall, a look at global average temperatures reveals a different picture. It shows large variability in our climate ...
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Extreme temperatures on the rise, says UK Met Office
Daily temperature extremes have risen by up to 4 °C over the last 50 years, say climate experts from the Met Office Hadley Centre. Research published this month in the Journal of Geophysical Research explored how observed extreme daily minimum and ...
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Monitoring climate change with the UK Met Office
As the world celebrated World Meteorological Day the UK Met Office looked at the role we play in supporting global observations to monitor a changing climate. To recognise the importance of global observations, the theme for this year`s celebrations ...
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Climate change conference goes `virtual`
World-leading science from the Met Office Hadley Centre is being shared on the international stage to spear-head projects to help mitigate the effects of climate change. Throughout this week a series of workshops will take place at Pune, India, ...
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Decadal forecasts to help prepare for the impacts of climate change
On the day that marks 25 years since the Thames Barrier was first raised to protect London from possible flooding, experts from the Met Office say that the next quarter century could see greater frequency of extreme weather events along with more ...
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Global temperature 2008: another top-ten year
2008 is set to be cooler globally than recent years say Met Office and University of East Anglia climate scientists, but is still forecast to be one of the top-ten warmest years. Each January the Met Office, in conjunction with the University of ...