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The Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate Change — named in honour of George Hadley
George Hadley

George Hadley was an England lawyer and amateur meteorologist who proposed the atmospheric mechanism by which the Trade Winds are sustained. As a key factor in ensuring that European sailing vessels reached North American shores, understanding the Trade Winds was as important in Hadley's day as the understanding of the solar wind and other e...
 — is part of, and based at the headquarters of the Met Office
Met Office

The Met Office , is the United Kingdom's national weather service, and a subsidiary of the Ministry of Defence . Part of the Met Office headquarters at Exeter in Devon is the Met Office College, which handles the training for internal personnel and many forecasters from around the world....
 in Exeter
Exeter

Exeter Exeter was the most south-westerly Roman fortified settlement in Roman Britain and has existed since time immemorial. Exeter Cathedral, founded in 1050 is Anglicanism....
. The Hadley Centre provides a focus in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 for the scientific issues associated with climate change
Climate change

Climate change is any long-term significant change in the expected patterns of average weather of a specific region over an appropriately significant period of time....
.

The Centre’s has several major aims:

In 2005 the centre hosted the international scientific conference Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change
Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change

Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change: A Scientific Symposium on Stabilisation of Greenhouse Gases was a 2005 international conference that examined the link between atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration, and the 2 ?C ceiling on global warming thought necessary to avoid the most serious effects of global warming....
.

The Met Office employs over 1500 staff, with approximately 200 working in its climate research unit.






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The Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate Change — named in honour of George Hadley
George Hadley

George Hadley was an England lawyer and amateur meteorologist who proposed the atmospheric mechanism by which the Trade Winds are sustained. As a key factor in ensuring that European sailing vessels reached North American shores, understanding the Trade Winds was as important in Hadley's day as the understanding of the solar wind and other e...
 — is part of, and based at the headquarters of the Met Office
Met Office

The Met Office , is the United Kingdom's national weather service, and a subsidiary of the Ministry of Defence . Part of the Met Office headquarters at Exeter in Devon is the Met Office College, which handles the training for internal personnel and many forecasters from around the world....
 in Exeter
Exeter

Exeter Exeter was the most south-westerly Roman fortified settlement in Roman Britain and has existed since time immemorial. Exeter Cathedral, founded in 1050 is Anglicanism....
. The Hadley Centre provides a focus in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 for the scientific issues associated with climate change
Climate change

Climate change is any long-term significant change in the expected patterns of average weather of a specific region over an appropriately significant period of time....
.

The Centre’s has several major aims:
  • To understand physical, chemical and biological processes within the climate system and develop state-of-the-art climate model
    Climate model

    Climate models use quantitative methods to simulate the interactions of the Earth's atmosphere, oceans, land surface, and ice. They are used for a variety of purposes from study of the dynamics of the weather and climate system to projections of future climate....
    s which represent them
  • 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
  • To monitor global and national climate variability and change
  • To attribute recent changes in climate
    Attribution of recent climate change

    Attribution of recent climate change is the effort to scientific method mechanisms responsible for relatively recent changes observed in the Earth's climate....
     to specific factors
  • To understand, with the aim of predicting, the natural inter-annual to decadal variability of climate


In 2005 the centre hosted the international scientific conference Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change
Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change

Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change: A Scientific Symposium on Stabilisation of Greenhouse Gases was a 2005 international conference that examined the link between atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration, and the 2 ?C ceiling on global warming thought necessary to avoid the most serious effects of global warming....
.

The Met Office employs over 1500 staff, with approximately 200 working in its climate research unit. Most of its funding comes from contracts with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is the United Kingdom government department responsible for environmental quality protection, food production and standards, agriculture, fisheries and rural communities in the United Kingdom....
 (DEFRA), other United Kingdom Government departments and the European Commission
European Commission

The European Commission is the executive of the European Union. The body is responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the Treaties of the European Union and the general day-to-day running of the Union....
.

The climate models (termed Global Climate Model
Global climate model

A General Circulation Model is a mathematical model of the general circulation of a planetary atmosphere or ocean and based on the Navier-Stokes equations on a rotating sphere with thermodynamic terms for various energy sources ....
s) developed by the centre are used for climate change research purposes across the world.

Research Projects based on Hadley Centre Climate Models

The volunteer computing
Volunteer computing

Volunteer computing is a type of distributed computing in which computer owners donate their computing resources to one or more "projects"....
 project ClimatePrediction.net
Climateprediction.net

Climateprediction.net, or CPDN, is a distributed computing project to investigate and reduce uncertainties in Global climate model. It aims to do this by running hundreds of thousands of different models using the donated idle time of ordinary personal computers, thereby leading to a better understanding of how models are affected by small...
 is a research team based at the University of Oxford
University of Oxford

The University of Oxford , located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation in the English-speaking world....
 conducting research into global climate change using adapted versions of the climate model
Climate model

Climate models use quantitative methods to simulate the interactions of the Earth's atmosphere, oceans, land surface, and ice. They are used for a variety of purposes from study of the dynamics of the weather and climate system to projections of future climate....
s developed at the Hadley Centre. Individuals can participate in the research efforts by donating spare computer resources to aid their research.

The PRECIS (Providing Regional Climates for Impacts Studies) project enables scientists from the around the globe to run a regional climate model towards carrying our research into climate change.

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