Met Office Hadley Centre Brochures

Make a difference to your climate with the Met Office

The purpose of this guide is to set out what's really happening and how climate change will affect you.

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Climate research at the Met Office Hadley Centre: informing Government policy into the future

This brochure sets out the key scientific questions which will be addressed by the Met Office Hadley Centre's Integrated Climate Programme to underpin government policy and planning.

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COP12 Effects of climate change in developing countries

Effects of climate change in developing countries

Future climate change will affect water supplies and food production. There will also be a wide range of other impacts, such as coastal flooding, increased heat-related mortality, and loss of important ecosystems.

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Climate change and energy management

Scoping study on the impacts of climate change on the UK energy industry

These reports are the result of a landmark collaboration between E.ON UK, EDF Energy, National Grid and the Met Office Hadley Centre's world-leading climate scientists in a pioneering new study to scope the impacts of climate change on the UK energy industry.

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Climate change and the greenhouse effect

Climate change and the greenhouse effect - a briefing from the Met Office Hadley Centre.

This Met Office Hadley Centre briefing is a collection of 60 slides with notes, containing up-to-date knowledge of the state of the climate and projections for the future.

December 2005

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Avoiding dangerous climate change

	Stabilising climate to avoid dangerous climate change - a summary of relevant research at the Met Office Hadley Centre. This report shows possible results of rapid changes in components of the climate system, and discusses some of the uncertainties in deducing tolerable concentrations and emissions and how these might be managed. Download Avoiding dangerous climate change brochure (PDF, 889 kb)
COP11 Climate change
	Climate change, rivers and rainfall. Recent research on climate change science from the Met Office Hadley Centre December 2005 In this Met Office Hadley Centre report we describe some of the most recent climate-change research. This year, our focus is on the water cycle, which plays a key role in the impact of climate change on the human and natural environment. Download COP11 (PDF, 1.7 Mb)

COP10 Climate change

	Uncertainty, risk and dangerous climate change Recent research on climate change science from the Met Office Hadley Centre December 2004 This Met Office Hadley Centre report addresses the issue of uncertainty in climate model predictions. It also discusses several aspects of dangerous climate change, and the state of the climate during 2003 and 2004. Download COP10 (PDF, 2.2 Mb)

COP9 Climate change

Climate change observations and predictions: recent research on climate change science from the Met Office Hadley Centre (December 2003)
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COP9 Climate change

Stabilisation and commitment to future climate change: scientific results from the Hadley Centre (October 2002)
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The Met Office Hadley Centre regional climate modelling system: PRECIS update 2002
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COP7 Climate change

PRECIS - The Met Office Hadley Centre regional climate modelling system: an update of recent research from the Met Office Hadley Centre (October 2001)
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Climate change science: Some recent results from the Met Office Hadley Centre (November 2001)
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COP6 Climate change

An update of recent research from the Met Office Hadley Centre (November 2000)

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COP5 Climate change and its impacts

Stabilisation of CO2 in the atmosphere (October 1999)

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COP4 Climate change and its impacts

A first look at results from the Met Office Hadley Centre's new climate model (November 1998)

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COP3 Climate change and its impacts

A global perspective (December 1997)

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