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It is possible to obtain wind data from the local or regional meteorological office for almost any location in the world, although these frequently require modification and interpretation before they can be used. 

Warren Spring Laboratory, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, UK and N. THOMPSON Meteorological Office, Bracknell, UK... 

The two models chosen by USNA team are clearly outliers from the family of available models. The Canadian Climate Centre model (acronymed by the USNA as CGCM1) is one of the very few that produces a substantially exponential (rather than linear) change in temperature. The other model used by the team is known as the Hadley Centre Model (acronymed by the USNA as HadCM2), developed at the United Kingdom s Meteorological Office.6... 

Atmospheric Processes Research Branch, Meteorological Office, Bracknell, Berkshire, RG12 2SZ, United Kingdom. 

British government publication documents Department of Science and Industrial Research, Meteorological Office, Board of Trade, Medical Research Council, Aeronautical Research Coimcil... 

Air Ministry, Meteorological Office. (1960) Handbook of Aviation Meteorology. HMSO London. 

Swinbank, R., W.A. Lahoz, A. O Neill, C.S. Douglas, A. Heaps, and D. Podd, Middle atmosphere variabihty in the UK Meteorological Office Unified Model. Quart J Roy Meteorol Soc 124, 1485, 1998. 

Climate Change and the Greenhouse Effect. A Briefing from the Hadley Centre, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, UK Meteorological Office, Exeter, December 2005 (see also New Scientist, 12 February 2005, 41). 

Figure 21.1 Combined land, air, and sea surface temperatures relative to 1951 to 1980 average temperature. Land air temperatures are from Jones et al. (1986a,b). Sea surface temperatures are from the U.K. Meteorological Office as adju.sted by Farmer et al. (1989).

U.K. Meteorological Office, personal communication to J. R. Beattie, Safety and Reliability Directorate, UKAEA (1967). 

Fig. 3.5 Global annual temperature anomalies (degrees C), 1850-2008 (relative to the 1961-1990 mean) data from P. D. Jones, T. J. Osborn and K. R. Briffa (Prediction and Research, Climatic Research Unit, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom) and D. E. Parker (Hadley Centre for Climate, Meteorological Office, Bracknell, Berkshire, United Kingdom).

One radioactive plume crossed the English Channel into southern England in the early hours of 2 May, having experienced almost no rain on its tortuous 4100 km track from Chernobyl. Measurements of related activity in the air were made by the Electricity Boards, by British Nuclear Fuels pic, by the UK Atomic Energy Authority and by the National Radiological Protection Board at various sites throughout the UK. The Meteorological Office combined these with air-trajectory analyses to define the subsequent movement... 

Air weather service. Co-operation between the industry, the NCAA and the Meteorological Office has improved, and a new set of regulations concerning the weather service has been introduced. 

Wind - European Wind Atlas BS6399 UK Met Office Models Waves - UK Wave Atlas UK Meteorological Office Model Nomographs Numerical models Online site specific weather service supplied by Met Office and others... 

Temperatures and precipitation are the most common elements used to define climate, but wind, amount of snowfall, and other variables are also included. Climate information of all types is available from the National Climate of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration in Asheville, North Carolina, and also from the World Meteorological Office in Geneva, Switzerland. 

The extreme range of recorded temperatures in England taken from die UK Meteorological Office data is 38.5°C to -26.1°C. These values are bounded by the APIOOO site parameters. The possible impact of extreme temperatures on the safety of the generic design is considered in APIOOO External Hazards Topic Report (Reference 3.2, Section 6.5), which demonstrates that credible extreme temperature conditions would not compromise nuclear safety. 

Historical information about visibility can be obtained at the meteorological offices. B. 3.8 Storm tracks... 

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