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This month, we focus on two papers that follow on from excellent presentations made at the 2017 Student Conference. The first of these, by James Warner, discusses the teleconnection between Arctic sea ice and the North Atlantic Oscillation. In ‘Arctic sea ice – a driver of the winter NAO’, beginning on p. 307, the effects of ice on the pressure systems of the Atlantic region are explored, showing...
The winter North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) explains a large amount of weather variability over northwest Europe, including extreme weather events such as the very cold winter of 2009/2010 and the exceptionally wet winter of 2013/2014 in the UK. Accurate prediction of the NAO several months in advance allows populations based in regions prone to such extreme and potentially prolonged weather events...
No snow patches survived in England and Wales into summer except on one hill. The dates of final melting were broadly in line with the mean for the series 2010–2018.
The table shows the final melt dates for all snow in England and Wales for the period 2010–2018.
Despite the impact it has on human activity, particularly transport, accurate forecasting of fog remains a major challenge for numerical weather prediction models. The complex interaction between various physical processes, many of which are parametrised and highly sensitive to small changes, is one of the key reasons for poor fog forecasts. One challenge for numerical models is predicting the structure...
Trend analysis is an ideal way of investigating first‐hand information about climate change; climate variables exhibit trends on variety of scales, and an understanding of these trends can be used to make estimates about the future of the climate. The objective of this paper is to examine temporal variations in climate by analysing climatic variables. Angul is one of the hottest districts in India,...