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North Atlantic Oscillation
Climate In the Spotlight Weather
Long-range weather forecasts
13 April 2022

We all know that weather forecasting isn’t an exact science, whether we’re talking about tomorrow, next week or next month. Matt Hugo explains what long-range forecasting is really about.

Climate Model
Climate
Climate Modelling
15 December 2020

How is Earth’s climate modelled and how does modelling help our understanding?’

El Niño Southern Oscillation
Climate
What is El Niño - Southern Oscillation?
04 November 2020

How can the sea temperature in the Pacific change the weather across the World?

jet stream
Weather
The Jet Stream
23 September 2020

What is the jet stream and how does it have such an impact on our weather? Simon Lee reminds us.

Image 1: Insolation variability with latitude  (Image credit: Peter Halasz ‘Oblique rays’ (via wikicommons))
Climate
Global Atmospheric Circulation
04 August 2020

The weather we get on earth is driven by the sun’s energy; the atmosphere is heated by the sun and spun by the rotation of the earth.

Floods in Djibouti
Climate
Floods, Bushfires and the Indian Ocean Dipole
04 December 2019

The recent horrendous bush fires in Australia and the extensive flooding in East Africa are likely to have the same root cause – the Indian Ocean Dipole.

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Climate
RMetS Podcast - Episode 8 - El Nio: Interview with Adam Scaife
08 June 2018

Episode 8 - El Niño: Interview with Adam Scaife

The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) and the subpolar gyre
Climate
Unprecedented weakening of North Atlantic circulation
13 April 2018

New evidence suggests that this circulation system is in a weakened state that is unprecedented in the past 1,600 years.

Temperature anomalies by year, relative to 1981-2010 mean (Source: WMO)
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2017: the warmest year on record without an El Nino
18 January 2018

Confirmation that 2017 was the warmest year without an El Niño boost has come from the Met Office Hadley Centre and UEA.

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