Hadley centre

 

The Hadley Centre for Climate Change, which is part of the Met Office, provides a focus in the United Kingdom for the scientific issues associated with climate change.

The main aims of the Centre are:

• To understand physical, chemical and biological processes within the climate system and develop state-of-the-art climate models 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 to specific factors;
• To understand, with the aim of predicting, the natural interannual to decadal variability of climate.

It currently employs around 100 staff and uses two NEC SX-6 supercomputers. Most of its funding comes from contracts with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), other United Kingdom Government departments and the European commission.