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- Title
In this issue of Weather.
- Abstract
Following on from the article in July's issue on the understanding of climate change, demonstrated by n-gram phrases in books published since 1850, Ifor Williams opens this issue with an analysis of the possible public confusion about the subject caused by news reports in Climate change confusion - who is responsible? This poignant Viewpoint clearly shows how our perception can be affected by these news reports, even though they are often ill-conceived in trying to make the slow rate of global warming something easily understood, or stating that, because change is slow and somewhat irregular, it might not be real. Putting this into perspective, our next article is the annual review, Global and regional climate in 2014 by John Kennedy, Colin Morice and David Parker of the Met Office Hadley Centre. Here is shown clearly the continuing change of climate, last year having been almost certainly the joint warmest on record, repeating the global warmth of 2010. The situation is, as always, complex, although most of the world had a warm year, only some central areas of continents experiencing a cold year, overall. Precipitation anomalies were yet more complex, but the signal for anthropogenic climate change is clear. Our need to get reliable data on river levels and the associated likelihood of flooding are laid out in Colin Clark's A 247-year flood record on the upper Stour, Dorset, UK. The relatively short records we have for the levels of many rivers in the UK makes planning and preparation for flooding difficult, but this paper addresses the issue, using the long data record from the Stour, carefully describing the difficulties associated with any lack of full understanding of the response of rivers to rainfall. It is a well-established tenet of climatology that the mid-latitude westerlies bring warmer, wetter conditions than might otherwise be expected in the countries of the western continental margins. The warmth is related to the temperature of the sea surface, so variability of sea-surface temperatures in the North Atlantic are a significant influence on the climate of Ireland, as described by G. D. McCarthy, E. Gleeson and S. Walsh in The influence of ocean variations on the climate of Ireland. In his letter: The narrow cold-frontal rainband of 22/23 November 2013 C. Kidd adds to the information presented by Martin Young in his paper in the October 2014 issue: An unusual case of line convection - the birth of a classical cold front over the UK, showing how good an example of 'linear convection' this was.
- Subjects
WEATHER; CLIMATOLOGY; CLIMATE change
- Publication
Weather (00431656), 2015, Vol 70, Issue 8, pE1
- ISSN
0043-1656
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1002/wea.2564