Dataset
EuroCORDEX-UK: Regional climate projections for the UK by Countries for 1980-2080 (v20240104)
Abstract
Regional climate model projections produced by the CoOrdinated Regional Downscaling EXperiment (CORDEX) and complementary to that produced by the UK Climate Projection 2018 (UKCP18) project. The data provides information on changes in climate for the UK until 2080, downscaled to a high resolution (12km), helping to inform adaptation to a changing climate.
The projections cover the UK for a 100 year period, 1981-2080, for a high emissions scenario, RCP8.5. Each projection provides an example of climate variability in a changing climate, which is consistent across climate variables at different times and spatial locations.
This dataset contains average values of indices for the countries of the UK.
Dataset development was funded under the UK Climate Resilience programme, which is supported by the UKRI Strategic Priorities Fund. The programme is co-delivered by the Met Office and NERC on behalf of UKRI partners AHRC, EPSRC, and ESRC.
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. |
| Data lineage: |
EuroCORDEX project (https://www.euro-cordex.net/) |
| File Format: |
The data are in NetCDF format.
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Process overview
| Title | EuroCORDEX-UK: Regional climate projections for the UK by Countries for 1980-2080 |
| Abstract | Ten regional climate models were forced by outputs from six different general circulation models to produce an ensemble of 64 regional climate model runs at 0.11 degree resolution (EUR-11). Land surface cells were aggregated into countries by assigning each cell to the country containing its centre, and averaging over each country. |
| Input Description | None |
| Output Description | None |
| Software Reference | None |
- units: %
- standard_name: cloud_area_fraction
- var_id: clt
- long_name: Cloud area fraction
- units: 1
- var_id: geo_region
- long_name: Country
- units: m s-1
- standard_name: eastward_wind
- var_id: uas
- long_name: Eastward wind component
- standard_name: air_temperature
- units: degC
- var_id: tasmax
- long_name: Maximum air temperature
- standard_name: air_temperature
- var_id: tas
- units: degC
- long_name: Mean air temperature
- standard_name: air_temperature
- units: degC
- var_id: tasmin
- long_name: Minimum air temperature
- units: W m-2
- var_id: rls
- long_name: Net surface long wave flux
- units: W m-2
- standard_name: surface_net_downward_shortwave_flux
- var_id: rss
- long_name: Net surface short wave flux
- units: m s-1
- standard_name: northward_wind
- var_id: vas
- long_name: Northward wind component
- var_id: pr
- standard_name: precipitation_flux
- units: mm/day
- long_name: Precipitation rate
- units: hPa
- var_id: psl
- standard_name: air_pressure_at_sea_level
- long_name: Pressure at mean sea level
- standard_name: relative_humidity
- units: %
- long_name: Relative humidity
- var_id: hurs
- standard_name: snowfall_flux
- var_id: prsn
- units: mm/day
- long_name: Snowfall flux
- units: 1
- var_id: huss
- long_name: Specific humidity
- standard_name: specific humidity
- standard_name: surface_snow_amount
- var_id: snw
- units: mm
- long_name: Surface snow amount
- units: m s-1
- standard_name: wind_speed
- var_id: sfcWind
- long_name: Wind speed at 10m
- units: 1
- long_name: ensemble_member
- var_id: ensemble_member
- units: 1
- long_name: ensemble_member_id
- var_id: ensemble_member_id
- units: 1
- long_name: month_number
- var_id: month_number
- units: 1
- standard_name: region
- var_id: region
- units: 1
- long_name: season
- var_id: season
- units: days
- var_id: time_bnds
- units: 1
- long_name: year
- var_id: year
- units: 1
- long_name: yyyymm
- var_id: yyyymm
- units: 1
- long_name: yyyymmdd
- var_id: yyyymmdd
Co-ordinate Variables
- standard_name: time
- var_id: time
- units: days
- long_name: Time axis
- standard_name: time
- var_id: time
- units: days
Temporal Range
1980-01-01T00:00:00
2080-12-31T23:59:59
Geographic Extent
60.8600° |
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-8.1800° |
1.7600° |
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49.1600° |