Assisting meteorologists in their daily tasks This includes creating products for aviation environmental and media services For example helping to write forecast scripts for the Met Office039s public weather service
My role is to assist the Radar Hardware Team in developing different components such as the receiver transmitter or antenna counterweight balancing This means it is varied from daytoday and can involve working with others in the team contacting ext
I worked alongside the team doing tickets for the verification products Coding was mainly in python I also did some writing of scripts relating to weather verification I worked a little bit with FORTRAN and Perl
Reviewing and recovering items of metadata documents which inform us about the methods and scenarios by which we collect data relating to a selection of the Met Office UK Land Network and from this compiling station histories with a quality assurance
A range of day to day tasks to support with dailyweekly deadlines along with involvement in ongoing project work in a range of themes eg science customer engagement operational
My role is to investigate performance improvements to specific parts of climate models On a daytoday basis this involves coming up with a weekly plan with my supervisor and then working independently across the week to achieve specific objectives Ther
Producing and verifying performing of a new automated way of producing specific forecasts
My role has been very variedit is so much more than just designing weather symbols like you might think Ive had the opportunity to input my fresh ideas to a wide range of projects such as managing the content for the launch of the Met Office book to
Thoroughly enjoyed my year at the Met Office The office is a great place to work and a very friendly environment whereby everyone is willing to help out
Great atmosphere Brilliant organisation who put their workers first Friendly and supportive team
I thoroughly enjoyed my placement at the Met Office The mix of being directly involved with projects from day one and the enthusiasm and support of all colleagues made this placement better than I could have thought I was able to learn new technologies
Every day at the Met Office was an absolute joy The super modern office the people the facilities and the vast array of learning opportunities made me eager to get into work in the morning
I loved every minute of my placement the culture is amazing at the met office so you always feel welcome there Everyone is so helpful and the variety of work you get is amazing The flexibility of being able to dip into other teams is also great and wou
I loved being on placement at the Met Office it was the one placement I truly wanted and to this day Im still astounded that I actually got in The people were great I was able to learn so much in so many different ways and I was sad to leave I really
I learned more within a year than i could have ever of expected The placement was fun engaging and enlightening All of the projects I worked on were fun and strengthened my knowledge The people I met within the year gave me motive to work hard and th
I thoroughly enjoyed my placement year with the Met Office My work was varied and grew my skills in Web Development immensely which helped me with my final year of study I felt like my contributionswork was valued by my team and others across the offic
My placement at the Met Office was extremely enjoyable I was offered the perfect amount of support I need to thrive and grow in the workplace I was working within a friendly but professional team with a real sense of comradery There were a great many o
It was really interesting with varied work including a number of different projects As there were a number of summer students in different areas we had quite a social life going on too
The work was quite enjoyable but I was left to my own devices for weeks at a time meaning I didnt always have anyone to ask for help
