The Met. Office - fit for the 21st Century?

✍ Scribed by P. Ewins

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 283 KB
• Volume: 1
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1530-261X
• DOI: 10.1006/asle.2000.0016

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

We present an automated method for updating existing long‐running precipitation series in near‐real time. Our analyses confirm the trend towards significantly drier summers in the south‐east of England and significantly wetter winters in the west of Scotland. In 2000 England and Wales saw the wettest April since records began in 1766 and record‐breaking daily precipitation in several regions in October led to the wettest autumn on record. Copyright © 2001 Royal Meteorological Society.