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• Building capacity and improving climate resilience in the Philippines

  Improving resilience to weather and climate extremes

  with the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), to help strengthen PAGASA's technical capabilities as well as provide state-of-the-art information to guide decisions and build resilience to future climate-related risks. Project summary The partnership

• Met Office climate scientist awarded an OBE

  Professor Jason Lowe, Head of Climate Services at the Met Office, is a world-leading expert in climate science. His work has been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list 2020, where he was awarded an OBE.

  Professor Lowe’s work has helped the UK and other countries plan for and respond to the impacts of climate change, directly shaping national and international policy and informing vital decisions to protect businesses and communities. He has pioneered a more collaborative approach to climate

• UK Climate Resilience Programme additional resources

  Additional resources produced by the UK Climate Resilience Programme that ran from 2019 to 2023.

  The UK Climate Resilience Programme produced a wide range of outputs, including data, journal papers, reports and briefings. Data 1. Samples of extreme winters to support climate adaptation This data set is designed to better understand the statistics of three extreme winters, as sampled by the UK

• Central and South Asia climate risk report

  Climate risk report for the Central and South Asia region

  The climate risk report for the Central and South Asia region is part of a series of regional climate risk reports the Met Office has produced in collaboration with ODI and commissioned by FCDO to provide evidence to the UK Government in support of adaptation and resilience planning and investments

• mo-state-of-uk-climate-2015-v3pdf

  July at Kitzingen, and in France 41.4 °C was recorded at Brive-la-Gaillarde on 16th July (see Useful Resources for a link to WMO Annual Bulletin on the Climate in region VI Europe and Middle East). However, other than on 1st July, the UK remained on the periphery of this heat on the near-continent

• mo-state-of-uk-climate-2016-v4pdf

  not be used as a climate index in its own right. The named storms of Gertrude, Henry and Imogen in late January and early February followed the previous storms of Desmond, Eva and Frank in December 2015 which brought record-breaking rainfall and associated extensive and severe flooding during December

• CHOGM Climate Service Demonstrator Project Progress

  Climate change in the Caribbean – strengthening the science to services interface Chris Hewitt Head of International Climate Services, Met Office, UK Professor of Climate Science, University of Southern Queensland, Australia www.metoffice.gov.uk © Crown Copyright 2018, Met Office Workshop Sponsors

• Climate extremes are becoming the new ‘normal’ for the UK

  “What we used to think of as extreme, we increasingly consider as normal.” That is the summarising comment from Mike Kendon, the Met Office lead author of the latest edition of the State of the UK Climate report.

  The report, which covers 2025 puts the latest year and decade into a historical context, tells us about the changes already seen in the UK’s climate. The key change in the UK’s climate is the ongoing rise in temperatures, with extremes particularly affected. Mike Kendon, Met Office climate

• Joint Weather and Climate Research Programme (JWCRP)

  JWCRP aims to further the interests of the Met Office and NERC in growing the UK's leading role in weather and climate research.

  JWCRP facilitates the joint research between the Met Office and Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). Its overarching goal is to ensure that the UK maintains and strengthens its leading international position in weather and climate science. The JWCRP has two major elements. The first

• Announcement of study support grants in climate science

  -production, climate services, weather/climate science expertise etc) Please detail processes that are in place to ensure ethical research practices. (* the institute where the applicant is currently registered or appointed) Insurance  The Met Office requires the following levels of insurance