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UKCP18 Short Event Case Studies of Historical and Future Sea Surface Elevation around the UK

Update Frequency: As Needed
Latest Data Update: 2018-11-21
Status: Ongoing
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Published
Publication Date: 2018-11-26
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 6 Files | 4GB
Abstract

The data are simulated instantaneous sea surface elevations above time-mean sea level due to tides alone (tideAnom) and due to tide and meteorological surge (tideSurgeAnom). The data were produced by the Met Office Hadley Centre, using data made available by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) and the Climate Model Intercomparison Project, phase 5 (CMIP5). The data were produced to investigate the impact of simulated atmospheric storminess change on extreme sea levels. To produce the data, atmospheric winds and pressure from the SMHI Regional Atmospheric Model RCA4 was used to drive the CS3 continental shelf model. The data are the resulting simulated sea surface elevations. Five CMIP5 RCP8.5 simulations were downscaled in this way: EC-EARTH, HadGEM2-ES, MPI-ESM-LR, IPSL-CM5A-MR, CNRM-CM5. The data covers the period 2007 to 2099, and applies to the UK coast.

Citable as:  Met Office Hadley Centre (2018): UKCP18 Short Event Case Studies of Historical and Future Sea Surface Elevation around the UK. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/58c393f773504caaad48cdb6310e17b2
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: UKCP18, Marine, Tide Surge, Historical, Projections, Case Studies

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Data lineage:

Data provided by the UK Met Office
File Format:
Data are NetCDF formatted

Related Documents

 UKCP18 Guidance on data, access and formats
 UKCP18 Guidance - caveats and limitations
 UKCP18 Science Reports

Process overview

This dataset was generated by the computation detailed below.
Title

UKCP18 Short Event Case Studies of Historical and Future Sea Surface Elevation Around the UK
Abstract

The POLCS3 storm surge model was used to produce a simulation of three historical storm surge events, with the mean sea level artificially increased by zero, 0.5, 1, 2,or 3 metres. The data show the sea surface elevation (tide-only and tide-plus-surge) relative to the imposed mean sea level.
Input Description

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Output Description

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Software Reference

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  • units: m
  • long_name: MSLchange
  • var_id: mslchange
  • units: m
  • long_name: Sea surface height above mean sea level due to modelled astronomical tide only
  • var_id: tideAnom

Co-ordinate Variables

  • units: degrees
  • standard_name: latitude
  • var_id: latitude
  • units: degrees
  • standard_name: longitude
  • var_id: longitude
  • standard_name: time
  • var_id: time
Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
1969-12-31T23:00:00
End time:
2100-01-01T00:00:00
Geographic Extent

 
60.8300°
  
-10.5800°
  
1.7500°
 
49.1700°
  
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