Met Office
The Met Office is the UK's national meteorological service . The name Met Office was originally the abbreviation of Meteorological Office , but is now the official name.
The service was founded in 1854 by Robert FitzRoy as a small division within the Board of Trade that mainly issued storm warnings to seafarers. After the Met Office was initially part of the Ministry of Defense from 1990, it has been subordinate to the Ministry of Economic Affairs since 2011. Today it is obliged to act according to entrepreneurial principles.
The headquarters is located in Exeter in the county of Devon where the Hadley Center for Climate Prediction and Research also is a private research center. The Met Office also has a weather forecasting center in Aberdeen and offices in Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands . A little-known department is the Mobile Met Office , which provides weather data to troops during conflicts, particularly the Royal Air Force . This division moved to Bracknell , Berkshire, in 2003 .
One of the best known services of the Met Office is the Shipping Forecast , which is broadcast on BBC Radio 4 .
The Met Office is the Volcanic Ash Advisory Center authorized by the International Civil Aviation Organization for the flight information areas Bodø Oceanic, Reykjavík, Shanwick Oceanic, London, Scottish and Shannon.
Julia Slingo is one of the well-known scientists in the history of the Met Office .
literature
- Malcolm Walker: History of the Meteorological Office . Oxford University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1-139-50448-5 .