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5 unusual facts about Met Office


2011 Sindh floods

The Met Office had informed all district coordination officers, Provincial Disaster Management Authority, chief secretaries and chief ministers about the heavy monsoon rain-spell two days earlier to take precautionary measures.

John Herbert Thomas Simpson

This data would be used by UKWMO, in conjunction with weather information from the Meteorological Office, to produce a forecast of radioactive  fallout.

MetOp

Before that point, the Met Office received data and started to test and then use it as input to the operational numerical weather prediction runs.

No. 521 Squadron RAF

The operations of the original Flights and later the Squadron was taking meteorological information for weather forecasting – previously provided by merchant shipping to the Met Office.

RAF Chenies

In the 1980s the station was used as the site for a Met Office weather radar station with a 'golf ball' styled Radome, still in use today.


2011 Atlantic hurricane season

These include forecasters from the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s National Hurricane and Climate Prediction Center's, Philip J. Klotzbach, William M. Gray and their associates at Colorado State University (CSU), Tropical Storm Risk, and the United Kingdom's Met Office.

HadCRUT

HadCRUT is the dataset of monthly instrumental temperature records formed by combining the sea surface temperature records compiled by the Hadley Centre of the UK Met Office and the land surface air temperature records compiled by the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia.

Jay Wynne

In 1999 he joined the Met Office undertaking a 14-month training programme, including a spell at RAF Northolt for six months.

John Findlater

After the war, Findlater joined the Met Office, beginning his career as a teacher of meteorology in Nairobi, Kenya.

Keith Browning

Keith Browning is a British meteorologist who worked at Imperial College London, the Met Office and University of Reading department of meteorology.

Rob McElwee

Rob joined the Met Office in 1982 working as a weather observer, spending most of the next eight years observing the weather on the Army Air Corps base of Netheravon on the Salisbury Plain.


see also

Jonathan M. Gregory

He is currently a senior scientist in the Climate Division of NERC's National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS-Climate), located in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading; and a Research Fellow in climate change at the Met Office Hadley Centre.

Richard Betts

Richard A. Betts, climate scientist at the Met Office Hadley Centre

United Kingdom Chemistry and Aerosols model

It is a collaboration of the Met Office with the University of Cambridge, University of Leeds, University of Oxford, University of Reading, University of East Anglia, and Lancaster University in the UK and the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research of New Zealand.