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Global observations of surface and upper air temperature and humidity, surface pressure and precipitation are used to provide advice on global climate variability and change.

Temperature, precipitation and humidity and their extremes can have a major impact on our lives. Observational datasets are used to monitor land and atmospheric climate variables, to understand how the climate has changed over time and to examine the occurrence of extremes in temperature and heat

How can we avoid the most dangerous impacts of climate change? This is one of the key questions the Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Programme is helping to answer.

, and website content. Here are some of the main things we deliver: Support for UNFCCC COP Each year, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) holds an annual action summit on climate change, the Conference of the Parties (COP) meeting. Delegates from around the world come

Copyright 2020 Executive summary Background: UKCP Global (60 km) consisted of 28 realisations of climate variables for 1900-2100 as simulated by 28 coupled ocean-atmosphere climate models. The 28 realisations consisted of 15 variants of the HadGEM3-GC3.05 global climate model (GCM) developed at the Met

and Africa leading to the season’s highest temperature of 18.4 °C at Santon Downham (Suffolk) on 24 February. Dr Mark McCarthy is the head of the Met Office National Climate Information Centre. He said: “February 2021 has seen a wide temperature range resulting from the two predominant weather patterns

Tom Butcher, Head of Research and Consultancy Propositions, examines how scenarios can provide a framework for business to consider the possible impacts of climate change on infrastructure, operations, supply chains and markets.

Tom Butcher Head of Research and Consultancy Propositions Profile Contents What does climate change mean for consumer businesses? Using scenarios as a framework for planning Four plausible future scenarios Since the Industrial Revolution society has been on a trajectory towards increasingly

Global Climate Observing System The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) is intended to be a long-term, user-driven operational system capable of providing the comprehensive observations required for monitoring the climate syst

GCOS is vital for: detecting and attributing climate change; assessing the impacts of climate variability and change; supporting research toward improved understanding, modelling and prediction of the climate system. It addresses the total climate system including physical, chemical and biological

What are the future risks we face from weather and climate change? This is a question the Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Programme helps answer, by looking at a range of possible climate scenarios.

Our climate has already warmed by around 1°C since the 1850s, and we expect further warming in the future. Some warming is already inevitable due to historical emissions. The amount of further warming we could avoid depends on our ability to cut emissions. This means there are a range of different

Our climate monitoring and attribution scientists

Nick Rayner Nick leads the Climate Monitoring and Attribution team. She is an expert in the development of observed climate data sets. Dr Peter Stott Peter is a Science Fellow in the attribution of climate change to anthropogenic and natural causes. Dr Chris Atkinson Chris works on the development

New tool shows what climate change might look like in your area

climate projections really puts future extremes into context. We’ve seen a raft of record-breaking weather over the past few years, and when you put that side by side with the projections it really brings to life what the weather could look like if we don’t significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions