Dataset
RAPID: Unified Model temperature data from xcth run
Update Frequency: As Needed
Latest Data Update: 2009-01-05
Status: Completed
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Published
Publication Date: 2008-12-10
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 580 Files | 50GB
Abstract
Data from "The impact of climate change on the North Atlantic and European storm-track and blocking" project was a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) RAPID Climate Change Research Programme project (Round 2 - NE/C509115/1 - Duration 14 Mar 2005 - 13 Mar 2008) led by Prof Sir Brian Hoskins of Imperial College London, Grantham Institute for Climate Change, with co-investigators also at the University of Reading.
This dataset collection contains Unified Model climate temperature outputs from model run xcth.
Rapid Climate Change (RAPID) was a £20 million, six-year (2001-2007) programme for the Natural Environment Research Council. The programme aimed to improve the ability to quantify the probability and magnitude of future rapid change in climate, with a main (but not exclusive) focus on the role of the Atlantic Ocean's Thermohaline Circulation.
Citable as: Natural Environment Research Council; Blackburn, M.; Hoskins, B. (2008): RAPID: Unified Model temperature data from xcth run. NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/2d4fd7419c224f39b1e6dcc203982237/
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: RAPID, Climate change, Atlantic Ocean's Thermohaline Circulation
Details
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Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
Use of these data is covered by the following licence(s): http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record. |
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Data from University of Reading. |
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Data are netCDF formatted
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Process overview
This dataset was generated by the computation detailed below.
| Title | Met Office operational unified model (UM) deployed on unknown computer |
| Abstract | This computation involved: Met Office operational unified model (UM). |
| Input Description | None |
| Output Description | None |
| Software Reference | None |
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- units:
- long_name: Advecting u * layer thickness (pascals) = zonal mass-flux
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- units:
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- long_name: Evap from sea * leads fraction.
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- units: m2 s-2
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- long_name: QCL - Liquid cloud water
- units: kg m-2 s-1
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- long_name: Rate of snow melt on land
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- long_name: Rate of surface runoff
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- units:
- units: 0-1
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- var_id: iceconc
- units: K
- var_id: temp
- long_name: SURFACE TEMPERATURE AFTER TIMESTEP
- units: W m-2
- var_id: botmelt
- long_name: Sea-ice botmelt
- units: W m-2
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- long_name: Sensible heat flux
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- long_name: Short-wave radiative heating
- units: kg m-2
- var_id: snowdepth_1
- long_name: Snow depth (water equivalent)
- units: W m-2
- var_id: field179
- long_name: Soil heat flux
- long_name: Soil moisture availability factor
- var_id: field1559
- units:
- units: kg m-2
- var_id: sm_1
- long_name: Soil moisture in each (of 4) levels
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- var_id: soiltemp
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- units: m s-1
- var_id: v
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- var_id: q_4
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- units: m
- long_name: Surface roughness (momentum)
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- var_id: TT
- units: K Pa s-1
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- units: K m s-1
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- units: 0-1
- long_name: Total cloud
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- units: W m-2
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- long_name: Total downward surface solar flux over sea-ice.
- units: kg m-2
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- units: kg m-2
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- long_name: Total soil moisture content (levels 1-4)
- var_id: field1385
- long_name: Unfrozen soil moisture fraction
- units:
- units: W m-2
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- long_name: Upward solar
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- units:
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- long_name: Westerly component of wind u
- units: W m-2
- var_id: wme
- long_name: Wind mixing energy
- units: m s-1
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- long_name: Wind speed
- units: K kg m-2 s-1 kg-1
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- units: K kg m-2 s-1 kg-1
- long_name: Zonal mass-flux * total water
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- units: m
- var_id: blht_1
- units: m
- var_id: ht
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- units: level
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- units: K m2 s-1 kg-1
- var_id: pv
- units: kg kg-1 Pa s-1
- long_name: q*w (specific humidity * vertical velocity)
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- units: K
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- units: K
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- units: level
- var_id: toa
- units: m2 s-2
- long_name: u**2
- var_id: uu
- units: m Pa s-2
- long_name: u*omega
- var_id: uomega
- units: m kg s-1 kg-1
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- units: m2 s-2
- long_name: v**2
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- units: m Pa s-2
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- units: m kg s-1 kg-1
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- long_name: v*q
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- long_name: x component of wind stress
- units: m s-1
- long_name: x wind component (with respect to grid)
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- units: degrees_east
- var_id: x_1
- var_id: y
- units: N m-2
- var_id: tauy
- long_name: y component of wind stress
- units: m s-1
- long_name: y wind component (with respect to grid)
- var_id: y-wind_1
- units: degrees_north
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Co-ordinate Variables
Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
1978-12-01T00:00:00
End time:
2008-11-27T23:59:59
Geographic Extent
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