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Analysing climate change and its impacts in the urban environment.

Urbanisation results in significant modification of local climates, the most apparent expression of this being the urban heat island. The global urban population now exceeds the rural population, and the urban population may exceed six billion by the 2050s. Therefore, society and our urban

Our climate change scientists

Dr Tim Andrews Tim is a climate scientist working on forcing, feedbacks and heat uptake in the climate system. Dr Alejandro Bodas-Salcedo Alejandro works on developing and assessing the Met Office Hadley Centre's climate models. Dr Rob Chadwick Rob looks at changes in the global water cycle related

Developing observational data; monitoring and interpreting climate variations and change.

Climate information and statistics, based on many types of surface, atmospheric and marine measurements, are produced on national to global scales. Climate models are used to attribute causes of past climate change that are seen within the observations. The datasets produced by our scientists are also used by other science areas. Scientific users throughout the world access the data and statistics via the HadObs website.

Providing advice on the impact of climate variability and change for security.

Climate science has made huge progress in understanding the dynamics of climate variability and change over the last few decades, with climate models being a valuable tool for understanding the future climate. However, there remains a gap between the type of information climate projections provide

Our climate impacts scientists

Dr Richard Betts Richard leads the climate impacts area, specialising in ecosystem-hydrology-climate interactions but also overseeing work on urban, health, industry and finance. Penny Boorman Penny is a climate scientist working on a framework to study uncertainties in dangerous climate impacts

Climate modelling at the Met Office

As faster supercomputers with more processing power are developed, harnessing this power and speed for the benefit of improving climate projections is the dream of climate scientists. The reality is there will never be enough speed or capability to infinitely improve climate models in all aspects

Office and the Met Office logo are registered trademarks. © Crown copyright 2021, Met Office 01604 FOOD SECURITY PACK – Future Climate - Northeast Farming Region Current drought risk Drought is the dominant climate risk in the NFR. Climate models show that the observational record (blue line

Verification (capabilities and outputs) Dynamics research 42 Post processing (Gridded, Site specific, climatological record) Impact modelling Observation based research Observations systems research Weather Science IT Informatics Atmospheric dispersion Science partnerships Ocean forecasting Climate

AI4 Climate explores and applies cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) techniques to advance climate science and deliver improved climate information more efficiently.

AI4 Climate is funded by the UK Government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) through the International Science Partnerships Fund (ISPF) and sits within the Met Office’s National Capability AI (NCAI) Programme.  The NCAI Programme demonstrates our commitment to embedding AI

of different locations around the UK and globally. We hold original manuscripts dating back to 1860 and have digitised climate records from around 1960 for a wide variety of weather variables to meet your individual business needs. These include the following: • Precipitation • Air temperature