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In 1854 he established what would later be called the Met Office, and created systems to get weather information to sailors and fishermen for their safety. [2] He was an able surveyor and hydrographer. As Governor of New Zealand, serving from 1843 to 1845, he tried to protect the Māori from illegal land sales claimed by British settlers. [3]
The Met Office, until November 2000 officially the Meteorological Office, [2] is the United Kingdom's national weather and climate service. It is an executive agency and trading fund of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and is led by CEO [3] Penelope Endersby, who took on the role as Chief Executive in December 2018 and is the first woman to do so. [4]
Endersby was appointed as chief executive at the Met Office in December 2018; she is the first woman to fill that role. [9] She served on the board of Ploughshare Innovations, the Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom) technology transfer office. [10] [11]
Rob Varley was appointed chief executive of the Met Office in 2014. [1] He stepped down in 2018. [2] Varley was First Vice President of the World Meteorological Organization until 24 April 2018. [3] He was educated at Cheltenham Bournside School and graduated from the University of East Anglia with a BSc in Environmental Sciences in 1983. [4]
The first BBC weather forecast was a shipping forecast, broadcast on the radio on behalf of the Met Office on 14 November 1922, and the first daily weather forecast was broadcast on 26 March 1923. In 1936, the BBC experimented with the world's first televised weather maps, brought into practice in 1949 after World War II. The map filled the ...
Similar outcry greeted the Met Office's decision to rename Finisterre to FitzRoy, but in that case, the decision was carried through. [21] Peter Jefferson, who read the Forecast for 40 years until 2009, says that he received letters from listeners across the UK saying that the 0048 broadcast helped them get to sleep after a long day. [5]
UK Met Office staff and researchers (15 P) Pages in category "Met Office" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect ...
The Met Office's North Atlantic and European model (NAE) model had 70 levels with a 12 km resolution. [11] It is run out to 48 hours from start. Because the UK is at a northern latitude the computer transposes the model area to an equatorial location so the grid points give an area that is more square.