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Observations of ocean temperature, both at and below the surface; salinity, and sea-ice cover are used to provide advice on global climate variability and change.

The oceans have a crucial role in the climate system owing to their ability to store and transport heat and to impart moisture and heat to the atmosphere. The temperature of the oceans and the amount of sea-ice are, therefore, important indicators of changes to the climate system. Observations

Climate change will have an increasing impact on our lives, including the sport we love to watch.

already seen aspects such as extreme heat, and the worse is yet to come. “The UK has not recorded temperatures of more than 38.7 °C. However, our climate projections show temperatures of 40.0 °C or more are possible at Wimbledon even during future tournaments, posing considerable challenges

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The Met Office supercomputing system is one of the most powerful in the world dedicated to weather and climate.

supercomputers dedicated to weather and climate.  Facts and big numbers Our three main supercomputing systems: are capable of more than 14,000 trillion arithmetic operations per second. That’s more than two million calculation per second for every man, woman and child on the planet. contain two petabytes

We understand more and more about climate change every day, as thousands of scientists all over the world study its causes and impacts

Emotion line graphs An activity to explore feelings about climate change through an emotion line graph. Interpreting climate models A group challenge to explore the concept of climate change modelling and look at different scenarios for the future.   Click the icon to download in English

Providing REgional Climates for Impacts Studies

Leadership and services to climate science recognised in New Year Honours for Met Office Science Fellow

Richard Jones, who is a Met Office Science Fellow, and a visiting Professor at the University of Oxford has been working in climate science for thirty-two years, and has been a prominent author for the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) across its last four assessment reports

UK Climate Resilience appoints Champions for the UKRI & Met Office led Strategic Priorities Fund research programme

August 2019 UKRI and Met Office are pleased to announce that Professor Suraje Dessai and Dr Kate Lonsdale, based at the University of Leeds, have been appointed to be the Champions for the UK Climate Resilience Programme.  As thought leaders for the programme, the Champions play a number of roles

The High Resolution Global Climate Modelling group both develops and analyses a hierarchy of model resolutions (ranging from 130km to 25km in the atmosphere, and 1 degree to ¼ degree in the ocean) based on the Met Office climate prediction model: HadGEM3 family configuration of the Unified Model