What we offer you solutions of presenting climate change data.

Problem At the Hadley Centre, data is produced from two sources: the climate models, especially the Unified model and the historic data records of sea, land temperatures etc. For the historic data sets, the acquisition and automatic integration of monthly data, the format of the data allowing for searches on specific fields of interest, the presentation of the data, especially on the website are all important aspects. For the planning data sets, the enormous importance of this data applies to many people, from the vine grower wondering what the summer temperature profile might look like over the next ten years; to the politician wanting a single telling statistic for their argument for a national or global policy.

Solution SigniFine has identified the following changes: re-structuring of the database to provide faster access, authorising the accessibility of the data to people within and outside the Hadley Centre, the further automation of monthly incoming data, the upgrading of the website, the unification of data sources especially historic and modelled, the professional practise of good software methods.

Consequence Such an approach would enable the Hadley Centre to integrate the vast amount of information to provide a dynamically updating interface to both developers of climate change forecasts and the people who want to form judgements based on this data.