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or a Met Office Civil Contingencies Advisor may be deployed to the MoD in London. Elsewhere, the Met Office provides NAME output for military incidents that may have international repercussions, with the Hazard Centre’s role becoming one of support in such circumstances. RIMNET – The Radioactive Incident

, the Hazard Centre provides a service almost identical to that for civil authorities, namely, an ‘area-at-risk’ map and PACRAM forecasts. For larger incidents, the Duty Forecaster or a Met Office Civil Contingencies Advisor may be deployed to the MoD in London. Elsewhere, the Met Office provides NAME output

, in the Thames Estuary in the UK, which includes London, flooding can occur when high tides coincide with low-pressure weather systems 87 . Areas of low-lying land (floodplains) in the estuary would be at significant risk of flooding if flood defences did not protect them. The Thames Estuary houses critical

reports from ships, a weather bulletin called Weather Shipping was started, broadcast twice daily at 0900 and 2000 GMT, from the powerful Air Ministry station G.F.A. in London, on a wavelength of 4,100 metres using CW (continuous wave) transmission which was capable of being received at a distance of up

, C. E. (2007) “Ensemble climate predictions using climate models and observational constraints.” Philos Trans R Soc London Ser A 365:2029–2052. Stott, P. A., Jones, G. S. (2012) “Observed 21st century temperatures further constrain decadal predictions of future warming.” Atmos. Sci. Lett. doi

ground, or in the large-scale vertical motion associated with depressions and fronts. The nature of clouds The classification of clouds is based upon that originated by Luke Howard (1772—1864), a London pharmacist and amateur meteorologist. In 1803 Howard, wrote a book called ‘Essay

. The ship sailed from England in may 1829 and reached the location of stores left by HMS Fury on 13 August 1829 MS 557/1 Remark book: HMS Victory 14.10.1828 14.5.1830 Begins in Liverpool, voyage to London in October / November 1828. Log then restarts on the 23 May 1829 when Victory slipped her