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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Harriette Boucher

New Met Office ‘breakthrough’ weather model to deliver more accurate forecasts

A new modelling suite will help better predict weather in earth’s upper atmosphere - (Nasa)

The Met Office has secured a new suite of space weather forecasting models capable of predicting how space weather will impact satellites, aviation, and communications and services which rely on the global navigation satellite system.

The technology, made in the UK, is now running on the Met Office’s new supercomputer and focuses on how the weather in space will affect the layers of the Earth’s upper atmosphere.

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