The project is a collaboration between the University of Edinburgh (EPCC), the University of Leeds (School of Earth and Environment), the Software Sustainability Institute, the UK Met Office and North Carolina State University.

These images were produced by: Kirsty Pringle, Jim McQuaid, Richard Rigby, Steve Turnock, Carly Reddington, Meruyert Shayakhmetova, Malcolm Illingworth, Denis Barclay, Douglas Hamilton and Ethan Brain.

We are grateful for the support provided by the Software Sustainability Institute and EPCC and volunteer effort provided through Access Data - Access to Industry.

Many thanks to Ed Hawkins for advice and guidance, and for the original stripes!

Thanks also to Alex Pringle for his geographical expertise. Finally, thanks to the many colleagues who have contributed ideas and opinions to improve these images and to all the researchers who worked to generate the model and satellite data that these images are based on.

This work used JASMIN, the UK’s collaborative data analysis environment (https://www.jasmin.ac.uk)

Lawrence, B. N. , Bennett, V. L., Churchill, J., Juckes, M., Kershaw, P., Pascoe, S., Pepler, S., Pritchard, M. and Stephens, A. (2013) Storing and manipulating environmental big data with JASMIN. In: IEEE Big Data, October 6-9, 2013, San Francisco.

The Software Sustainability Institute is funded through UKRI grant EP/S021779/1 (Phase 3) and AH/Z000114/1 (Phase 4).

The University of Edinburgh and the University of Leeds are both members of the Met Office Academic Parnership (MOAP)