UK-Japan Climate Collaboration - Project Launch on 19th January at the British Embassy, Tokyo.

• Jack Straw, Foreign Secretary, has launched the project and has presented UK plans for advancing climate change science during its G8 presidency.

• Press Release

• Presentations will be posted on the website as they become available.

• Project pamphlet

• Some background to the project and a description of the science can be found by looking at the sidebar menu.

• Related links
  • See collaborators
  • HiGEM project
  • NCAS
  • Met Office

A selection of useful images (to download click on image):

The Earth Simulator computer. More images here..

The Gulf Stream in the N Atlantic: at 10km resolution an ocean model can simulate the sharp temperature change across the Gulf Stream and the small scale eddies that form there. Results from the OCCAM model, Southampton Oceanography Centre.

2004 has been an exceptional typhoon year for Japan with 10 typhoons making landfall compared with the normal 2 to 3. This picture shows typhoon Tokage which struck in October.

The theatre of 'human computers' imagined by the mathematician L F Richardson in 1922 - the equivalent of a modern day multi-processor computer.