"Particulate pollution reflect incoming sunlight and make clouds brighter, " said research team-member Dr Paul Halloran from the UK Met Office Hadley Centre.
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The UK Space Agency tells me that it is working closely with the UK Met Office, and that a coherent case is being presented to ministers.
So now Tuvalu is demanding a 1.5C degree target, which the UK Met Office has said in another side event here was virtually impossible given its projections based on the current level of emissions.
He said the UK Met Office was planning to upgrade the radar again with dual-polarisation as part of a wider plan, with it due to happen in Jersey some time after the middle of 2015.
Data from 3, 780 weather stations had been released earlier this year via the UK Met Office, while US portals such as the Global Historical Climatological Network also put raw readings into the public domain.
But Dr Peter Stott, a leading climate scientist at the UK Met Office, says that since the 1970s the amount of moisture in the atmosphere over the oceans has risen by 4%, a potentially important factor.
Another factor that needs considering is the level of lightning activity in early February in the region around Rome - something the UK's Met Office is able to monitor and record with the help of a system of sensors dotted around Europe.
The company said that according to the Met Office the UK saw only 66% of the average expected rainfall in February and 88% in January.
Met Office figures show the UK saw only 88% of the average rainfall in January, falling to 66% in February and 65% in March.
According to the UK's national weather forecaster, the Met Office, June was the wettest since records began in 1910, and that July had continued in similar fashion.
Last month was the UK's warmest April on record, the Met Office has said.
The Met Office said the majority of the UK would stay dry over Easter, although temperatures would remain cold.
The speech had been approved by the UK Foreign Office but behind closed doors it was met with arched eyebrows.
Met Office analysis has suggested that the UK could experience a severe short-term drought, similar to the drought experienced in 1976, once a decade.
The Met Office said it was the warmest temperature recorded in the UK for five years.
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The Met Office is warning of icy roads across much of the UK. Central Scotland police advise essential journeys only.
The Met Office said that from 1 March to 26 March the UK mean temperature was 2.5C, which is three degrees below the long-term average.
Cambridge was the coldest place in the UK on Monday night, with temperatures dipping to -12.2C, according to Met Office figures.
The Met Office said the weather is set to be mainly dry for most of the UK for the next few days.
The Met Office has issued a yellow "be aware" warning of ice for a large chunk of the UK from London in the south east, across north Wales up to Northern Ireland and across northern England and southern Scotland.
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