1. Diabatic influence on mesoscale structures in extratropical storms
DIAMET Impact Plan
Ian Renfrew

2. Educational Filming
Heather Reid (consultant) and Jeremy Henderson (Xube Ltd, Producer)
Filming took place at Met Office and Exeter airport on 6 December 2011.
~10 people interviewed during the day
Two short films being produced:
How are forecasts produced?
Improving forecasts of storms at the scale of counties (i.e. Diamet)
‘First cuts’ of films are complete, but awaiting voice-overs etc.
Any additional ideas for distribution?

3. Field campaign Media
The 8 December 2011 Freidhelm storm provided an opportunity for media engagement
A quick press release was drawn up by Diamet and Met Office on the day
Mission scientists interviewed by press, local and national radio, local tv?
Lots of publicity for FAAM and Diamet.

4. Planned press release
A planned press release was drawn up the following week: “Violent storms provide testing conditions for research scientists”
NERC not interested, but released by UEA and ???
Local radio interviews, some interest in participating in spring/summer campaign.

5. Blog
Diamet Blog (

6. Other activities Met Office website article on Diamet
Bob Plant – outreach activity at local school with some simple demos (convection) and “snow risk” forecasting.
BINARY – Ian Renfrew & Steve Dorling (UEA) helping a playwright with material for a play for High Tide Theatre Festival (Suffolk) in May 2012.

7. Impact continues downstream through NCAS and NCEO core programmes
Pathways to Impact
Specific project deliverables
Exchange of expertise
Forecast model advances
Met Office
Weather services
EUMETCAL
Forecaster training
Educational resources (web based)
Field campaign blog
Video conference
Leaflets
Heather Reid
and
R Met. Soc
Schools and public outreach
Impact continues downstream through NCAS and NCEO core programmes