modelling

Using traffic modelling - where traffic patterns are simulated - the maximum delays westbound and eastbound are expected to be up to six minutes off-peak and up to 15 minutes during peak times.

"We have been doing modelling with colleagues at the University of Cambridge and the Met Office which have adapted a nuclear atmospheric dispersion model to Ips," explained Dr Blake.

In 2005 data from aircraft flown into storms was not being used as part of the modelling.

As part of an initiative with the World Bank, the PMD is procuring new radars and automatic weather stations, as well as working to improve its short-term modelling.

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