The Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, 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 Hadley 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 Cray T3E 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.
Hadley was intrigued by the fact that winds which should by all rights have blown straight north had a pronounced westerly flow, and it was this mystery he set out to solve.
Hadley was born in London, England to Katherine FitzJames and George Hadley.
Hadley was elected a Royal Fellow in 1745 and died in 1768.
The HadleyCentre is the climate research division of the Met Office, specialising in the development of General Circulation Models (GCMs) of the climate system, and in the use of these to predict the consequences of anthropogenic forcings (e.g.
As part of the Met Office, the HadleyCentre gains from the use of the “Unified Model” which is used for both numerical weather prediction (NWP) and climate modelling at regional and global scales.
HadleyCentre staff have played a key part in each of the IPCC reports, and are at the leading edge of work on the detection and attribution of climate change and coupled climate-carbon cycle modelling.
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