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Author Archives: Met Department
Is the Montreal Protocol really working?
By Michaela Hegglin The Montreal Protocol, which celebrated its 30th birthday last year, is an international treaty established in 1987 to protect the ozone layer from human-made ozone depleting substances. The Montreal Protocol has been hailed as the most effective … Continue reading
Posted in Atmospheric chemistry, Climate, Environmental hazards, Stratosphere
Tagged ozone depletion
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Responding to the threat of hazardous pollutant releases in cities
By Denise Hertwig High population density and restricted evacuation options make cities particularly vulnerable to threats posed by air-borne contaminants released into the atmosphere through industrial accidents or terrorist attacks. In order to issue evacuation or sheltering advice to the … Continue reading
Posted in Environmental hazards, Numerical modelling, Urban meteorology
Tagged DIPLOS, SIRANE
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Our stormy winter – records continue to tumble
By meteorological convention, ‘winter’ consists of the calendar months of December, January and February. Few will regret the passing of the ‘climatological’ winter of 2013/14, as records continued to tumble right up until the last day … Wettest February on … Continue reading
It’s official – now Reading’s wettest winter on record
With 5.5 mm of rain falling in the 24 hours to 9 a.m. today (18 February), measurements made by Mike Stroud at the University’s weather station at Whiteknights show that 348 mm of rain has fallen there this winter so … Continue reading
Atlantic overturning circulation in decline
Major currents in the North Atlantic Ocean seem to be slowing down. The findings show that a recently measured slowdown of 10-15% may be part of larger decline that began in the 1990s and shows no sign of stopping yet. This … Continue reading
Wettest January on the University’s 106-year weather record
This January has been the wettest on the University’s long meteorological record. Weather observations began at the London Road site in 1908, with a move to Whiteknights in 1968. Records from the Atmospheric Observatory on the Whiteknights campus show that, … Continue reading
Are we heading for another ‘Maunder minimum’?
Recent research from Mike Lockwood and team has evaluated the current decline in solar activity (which began in 1985) by comparing with past behaviour of the Sun deduced from cosmogenic isotopes found in ice sheets and tree trunks. The current … Continue reading
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Dame Professor Julia Slingo named by Science Council as one of the UK’s ‘Top 100 scientists’
The Science Council has today released a list of the 100 leading practising scientists in the United Kingdom, to challenge the UK’s narrow and old-fashioned view of science and to highlight a collective blind spot in the approach of government, … Continue reading
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A soggy start to 2014 …
With the worst of the Christmas rains now behind us, and some drier and calmer weather being forecast for the next few days, it is interesting to take stock of the rainfall during the past four weeks as measured by … Continue reading
Artificially cooling the planet could cause climate chaos
Plans to reverse the effects of global warming by injecting reflective particles into the stratosphere which would mimic the impact of large, tropical volcanic eruptions could have a catastrophic impact on some of the most fragile ecosystems on earth, according … Continue reading