Climate Impacts LINK Project

THE CLIMATE IMPACTS LINK Project (LINK) provides climate model data harvested at the Met Office Hadley Centre (MOHC) for use by researchers, institutions, companies, and political organizations. These users are located both in the United Kingdom and abroad; the data from LINK impact many fields such as marine biology, aviation, civil engineering, public policy, economics, and atmospheric sciences.

LINK is supported financially by the United Kingdom's Department of the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), based in London, England. DEFRA, in fact, established LINK in 1991, and assigned the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UAE) to handle the data. The task became too large for the computer systems at the UAE Climate Research Unit and the contract was sublet to the ...

  • Loading...
locked icon

Sign in to access this content

Get a 30 day FREE TRIAL

  • Watch videos from a variety of sources bringing classroom topics to life
  • Read modern, diverse business cases
  • Explore hundreds of books and reference titles