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Flood workshop at St Piran’s School
On 25th November 2021, the DARE project team delivered a workshop on flooding to approximately 60 Year 6 pupils (10-11 year olds) at St Piran’s school Maidenhead. We gave a short presentation, played the soil porosity game and then allowed ...
Data assimilation under dramatic growth of observational data and rapid advances in computer performance
By Guannan Hu The importance of data assimilation Data assimilation (DA) is a technique used to produce initial conditions for numerical weather prediction (NWP), where computer models describing the evolution of the atmosphere are used to predict future weather based ...
We’re thrilled to announce Professor Sarah Dance’s Royal Meteorological Society prize
The Adrian Gill Prize was awarded to Professor Sarah Dance for her world class research in data assimilation for hazardous weather and flood prediction. The full press release along with Sarah’s acceptance speech is on the RMetS 2020 awards page ...
Can You Guess The Ingredients Of A Cake?
By: Amos Lawless “Mmm this cake is lovely, what’s in it?” “Try to guess!” How often have we had that response from a friend or colleague who is proud of the cake they have just baked? And we usually try ...