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[EN] A Service for All Seasons - the MetOffice UK


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English edition: In the last episode of this season of Code for Thought, I want to take you on a tour through the MetOffice in Exeter, UK. My host Dimitri Theodorakis and some colleagues of his talk us through some of the exciting work happening there. 

Links:

  • https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research overview of research at the MetOffice
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_prognosticator the "leech barometer"
  • https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/approach/modelling-systems/unified-model the Unified Model for weather and climate modelling 
  • https://github.com/cylc/cylc-flow the workflow engine, mentioned a few times in the episode
  • https://github.com/MetOffice/stc other open source tools 
  • https://niwa.co.nz/climate-and-weather/niwa-weather one of the collaborators of the MetOffice
  • https://www.ywt.org.uk/oil-tanker-collision the oil tanker collision from March 2025 we talked about in the episode

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