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Wikipedia's article on the Met Office, the United Kingdom's national weather service, covering its 1854 founding under Robert FitzRoy.

Facts
Publisher
Wikipedia
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Met_Office
Source Type
reference
Reliability Tier
3
A community edited tertiary reference, used here for uncontested institutional facts (founding year, founding director, current seat) that are matters of public record rather than interpretation.
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Claims Backed By This Source (11 claims)

This source backs 11 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Institutions, 6 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
  • Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.

Well-attested

9

Institutions

Holds

1

Institutions

General References

1

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