The Met Office Hadley Centre — named in honour of George Hadley — is one of the United Kingdom's leading centres for the study of scientific issues associated with climate change. It is part of, and based at the headquarters of the Met Office in Exeter.
The Hadley Centre [1] was founded in 1990,[2] having been approved by the then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and was first named the Hadley Centre for Climate Research and Prediction but subsequently renamed on various occasions.[3][4]
Major aimsedit
The centre has several major aims:
To understand physical, chemical and biological processes within the climate system and develop state-of-the-art climate models
To use climate models to simulate global and regional climate variability and change
To predict inter-annual to decadal variability of climate
To predict long term climate change
To monitor global and national climate variability and change
The climate model (HadGEM) developed by the centre is used for climate change research purposes across the world. It covers both Ocean modelling and Atmospheric Modelling. Collecting data from across the world.[6]
Research projects based on Hadley Centre climate modelsedit
The UK Climate Prediction Project uses the Hadley Centre climate model projections of future UK climate to inform UK government policy.
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology and the Korean Meteorological Agency use the Hadley Centre GloSea5 system for long range prediction.
The volunteer computing project ClimatePrediction.net is a research team based at the University of Oxford conducting research into global climate change using adapted versions of the climate models developed at the Hadley Centre. Individuals can participate in the research efforts by donating spare computer resources to aid their research.
^Folland, Chris K.; Griggs, David J.; Houghton, John T. (2006). "History of the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research". Weather. 59 (11): 317–323. doi:10.1256/wea.121.04.
^Kingdom, Met Office, FitzRoy Road, Exeter, Devon, EX1 3PB, United. "Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Programme". Met Office. Retrieved 14 November 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^How Margaret Thatcher Made the Conservative Case for Climate Action, James West, Mother Jones (magazine), Mon Apr. 8, 2013
^An Inconvenient Truth About Margaret Thatcher: She Was a Climate Hawk, Will Oremus, Slate (magazine) April 8, 2013
^Watts, Jonathan (27 May 2020). "'The human fingerprint is everywhere': Met Office's alarming warning on climate". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 May 2021.
^Kingdom, Met Office, FitzRoy Road, Exeter, Devon, EX1 3PB, United. "Met Office climate prediction model: HadCM3". Met Office. Retrieved 14 November 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
External linksedit
Official website
Hadley Centre data provision
November 10, 2023
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