Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research
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The Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate Change, which is part of the Met Office and based at its headquarters in Exeter, provides a focus in the United Kingdom for the scientific issues associated with climate change. It's main aim is to understand physical, chemical and biological processes within the climate system and develop state-of-the-art climate models which represent them; to use climate models to simulate global and regional climate variability and change over the last 100 years and to predict changes over the next 100 years; to monitor global and national climate variability and change; to attribute recent changes in climate to specific factors; to understand, with the aim of predicting, the natural interannual to decadal variability of climate.
The Met Office employees over 1500 staff, with approximately 200 working in it's climate research unit. Most of its funding comes from contracts with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), other United Kingdom Government departments and the European Commission.
The climate models (termed Global Climate Models) developed by the centre are used for climate change research purposes across the world.
The centre was named in honour of George Hadley.
In 2005 the centre hosted the international scientific conference Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change.
