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climate records, and also to provide consistency and certainty. Climatologically, Christmas Day is like other winter days in the UK, where the weather is strongly driven by the air mass we are influenced by at the time and the behaviour of the jet stream. Since 1960, around half of the years have
The Weather and Climate Science for Service Partnership South Africa is a collaborative initiative between research institutes in the UK and South Africa.
Africa Current research areas Monitoring and attribution To understand how our climate is changing we need a clear view of the past through climate observations. WCSSP South Africa is expanding the observational climate record through data rescue and digitisation of large collections of historical
Summaries of the climate characteristics of 11 regions of the UK
in this climate change visualisation tool. This tool is a collaboration with the BBC. It combines our climate projections and records to visualise climate change in the UK.
temperature: how does 2020 compare so far? Author: Press Office 23 June 2020 The Earth’s average temperature has increased by about 1 degree C since pre-industrial times, which for the climate record is calculated as the period 1850-1900. Figure shows values from GISTEMP, NOAAGlobalTemp and HadCRUT4
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An update on a record breaking June Author: Press Office 5 July 2018 On Monday 2nd July we released our provisional climate statistics for June: an exceptional month resulting in a number of new climate records, including the warmest June on record for Wales and Northern Ireland. A provisional national
The climate monitoring and attribution research area is involved in collaborations with institutions around the world.
station meteorological observations for application to extremes and health hazards. We develop climate data records of upper tropospheric humidity under the EUMETSAT Climate Monitoring Satellite Application Facility. We work together with other groups in the UK and in Europe on the ESA Climate
not currently in the digital climate records also document a value of 60F 15.6 °C at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk on 31 December 1901). The daily maximum temperature of 16.3 °C at St James’s Park, Central London on 1 January 2022 made this the UK’s warmest New Year’s Day on record, exceeding 15.6 °C at Bude
. This run of events, though unusual, has earlier precedents in the historical climate record, for example in 1999, 2000 and 2001 but this has now come to an end. Instead, our latest long-range forecasts suggest that the tropical Pacific is about to transition into El Niño – the warm phase of ENSO
present and future climate, including process-based evaluation and analysis of observations and climate model data. Observational weather and climate records in Pakistan are underexploited in climate analysis and modelling meaning that they cannot be used to support climate modelling research
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