Met Office Hadley Centre

The Met Office Hadley Centre — named in honour of George Hadley — is one of the United Kingdom's leading centres for the study of scientific issues associated with climate change.

It is part of, and based at the headquarters of the Met Office in Exeter.

The Hadley Centre[1] was founded in 1990,[2] having been approved by the then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and was first named the Hadley Centre for Climate Research and Prediction but subsequently renamed on various occasions.

[5] The Met Office employs over 1500 staff, with approximately 200 working in its climate research unit.

The volunteer computing project ClimatePrediction.net is a research team based at the University of Oxford conducting research into global climate change using adapted versions of the climate models developed at the Hadley Centre.