January 16, 2020
Confirmation that 2019 concludes warmest decade on record
The annual global temperature figures for 2019 confirm that the past decade was the warmest on record.
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January 5, 2020
Atmospheric Measurement Summer School 2020
The Atmospheric Measurement Summer School is running for its thirteen year in early Spring.
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January 2, 2020
Climate scientist Ed Hawkins appointed MBE
NCAS’ Professor Ed Hawkins has been recognised in the New Year’s Honours list for his services to climate science and science communication.
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December 13, 2019
12 news stories that defined our year
To mark the twelve days before Christmas, we’re looking back at our top twelve news stories from the past year.
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December 6, 2019
Slowdown in rising greenhouse gases does not negate the long-term trend, finds global carbon budg...
This year’s rise in greenhouse gas emissions continued to increase, meaning the world is still not on track to pursue the 1.5C goal of the Paris Agreeme...
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November 29, 2019
Low-emission zones will improve air quality, but should not be the only measure to tackle air pol...
Low emission zones have been introduced to help cities to reduce the amount of air pollution being emitted in densely populated areas.
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November 25, 2019
Weather in Malaysia provides early winter forecasts
Scientists have uncovered a new link between conditions in the tropics and the weather in Europe.
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November 21, 2019
Rapid action needed to protect ozone layer against new source of illegal chemical emissions
Researchers from NCAS have assessed the impacts of a new source of an ozone-destroying chemical that poses a serious threat to the recovery of the ozone...
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November 13, 2019
New holographic system will capture images of entire cloud droplet populations in high resolution
Researchers from the National Centre for Atmospheric Science are developing new holographic imaging systems for studying cloud particles in the laboratory.
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November 7, 2019
Preserving historic weather records to help predict future climate
On World Digital Preservation Day (Thursday 7 November 2019) the data conservation community will come together to celebrate the collections they
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November 7, 2019
Air quality should be considered in the fireworks debate, say leading experts
Fireworks are a long-standing British tradition, but there is significant public concern over the negative impacts they have.
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November 1, 2019
Latest weather data added to popular open-access dataset
Earlier this year the Met Office released the MIDAS Open database, a publically available version of a popular dataset containing ho...