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The Hadley Centre for climate prediction and research, which is
part of the Met Office, provides a focus in the United Kingdom for
the scientific issues associated with climate change. The main aims
of the Hadley Centre are:
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To understand physical, chemical and biological processes within
the climate system and develop state-of-the-art climate models
which represent them;
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To use climate models to simulate global and regional climate
variability and change over the last 100 years and to predict
changes over the next 100 years;
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To monitor global and national climate variability and change;
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To attribute recent changes in climate to specific factors;
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To understand, with the aim of predicting, the natural interannual
to decadal variability of climate.
It currently employs around 100 staff and uses two Cray T3E supercomputers. Most
of its funding comes from contracts with the Department for Environment,
Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), other United Kingdom Government departments
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Climate change
| 22 October 2002
Met Office report states that the damage already done to the climate
by man's greenhouse gas emissions will effect us for the next 1,000
years...
From News
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COP8 climate
change | 24 October 2002
A new short report, entitled Stabilisation and commitment
to future climate change, has been issued at the major UN
Climate Conference in New Delhi. This and other climate change
brochures are available online for you to download...
From Hadley
Centre publications
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PRECIS
update 2002 | 24 October 2002
Find out about PRECIS, the Hadley Centre regional climate modelling
system, in a new brochure that describes regional climate models
and the advantages that they have over global models for providing
scenarios of future climate change.
From Hadley
Centre publications |
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Climate monitoring
and climate datasets
The Hadley Centre receives, quality controls, and archives
large amounts of observed climate data. These are used for
monitoring the climate, in studies of the causes of climate
change, and in climate modelling.
Types
of climate models used in the Hadley Centre
Our detailed three-dimensional representations of major components
of the climate system are mostly run on the Met Office's Cray
T3E supercomputers. We use these models in various different
configurations.
Climate
change projections
Key results from climate-change experiments conducted using
Hadley Centre computer models of the climate system.
Carbon
cycle
The role of the carbon cycle in climate change, how the models
represent it, and what the results are when these models are
included in climate change simulations.
| Who
carries out the research? |
Met Office's Hadley Centre research is organised into several
themes, each with a theme manager. You can contact
theme managers and other research staff
The majority of publications
by staff at the Hadley Centre (often in collaboration
with authors from other institutions) appear in books, brochures,
peer-reviewed scientific journals, and conference proceedings.
Opportunities exist for scientists from UK and non-UK institutes
to undertake collaborative research for periods of up to a
year. More
about visiting scientist programme
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