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Widespread snowfall over UK in December 2010 (credit NASA / Jeff Schmaltz)

Weather forecasters have a tougher job predicting winter conditions over Europe in some years over others, concludes a new study carried out by the National Oceanography Centre.

The study revealed that the relationship between our winter weather and the strength of the airflow coming in from the Atlantic – one of the factors used by forecasters…

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The next Proudman Lecture is about Atlantic meridonal overturning circulation (AMOC).

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, its nature, and implications for observations

Professor Carl Wunsch, MIT & University of Oxford
Wednesday 23 May 2012

The so-called Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) has been a major focus of studies of present, past, and future climate states.…