The project will apply recent research in IEC technologies to the provision of time-critical high volume environmental information in the differing case study sectors of Health and Marine. It will provide a functional demonstrator in each case study using the same underlying Web Services architecture, evaluating standards for interoperability, scalability, data exchange, security and reliability. The DTI funding will bring together technologists, data producers and service providers through these case studies to showcase Web Services, provide technology transfer, promote best practice, and build new partnerships to innovate in priority sectors. The case studies will be used to promote early adoption routes and the technology outputs will add to the national resources in these areas. The projects Dissemination Plan will ensure that the outputs are exploited as widely as possible and that others involved in working with UK environmental data and information (both nationally and internationally) can make use of these research applications.

Abstracts are not currently available in GtR for all funded research. This is normally because the abstract was not required at the time of proposal submission, but may be because it included sensitive information such as personal details.

Abstracts are not currently available in GtR for all funded research. This is normally because the abstract was not required at the time of proposal submission, but may be because it included sensitive information such as personal details.

Climate model simulations for the next assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are currently being prepared by climate modelling centres around the world. In this joint project with the Met Office, fully coupled atmosphere-ocean model simulations will be performed and analysed using a 'high-top' version of the Met Office Hadley Centre climate model that extends to 85km and therefore fully resolves processes in the stratosphere. Simulations of the past (1860-present) and into the future (to 2100) will be carried out. The project will examine the climate change signals predicted by the fully coupled ocean-troposphere-stratosphere model and investigate the stratospheric influence on surface climate. These aims will be achieved by careful analysis of the model runs, together with additional experiments to isolate processes, test mechanisms and improve statistical significance. Particular emphasis will be placed on (a) regional and seasonal patterns of surface change, especially the North Atlantic Oscillation and impacts over Europe, and (b) detection and attribution studies, exploiting the well-known tropospheric warming / stratospheric cooling signature of anthropogenic influence. Comparisons will be carried out with observations, with corresponding low-top model runs that do not fully resolve the stratosphere and with runs from high-top models carried out by other international climate modelling groups.

Abstracts are not currently available in GtR for all funded research. This is normally because the abstract was not required at the time of proposal submission, but may be because it included sensitive information such as personal details.