Dataset
UKCP Global (60km) - European Circulation Indices
Abstract
A set of European Climate Indices calculated from UKCP Global (60km) projections from 1900-2100 under RCP8.5 produced by the Met Office in 2018 including:
1. Daily Atlantic jet stream latitude and strength
2. Daily 'weather pattern' classification - time-series of 1-8 or 1-30 weather patterns which are based on a classification scheme for the large scale synoptic situation.
3. Winter North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) index - annual time series represents the seasonal mean NAO as the sea level pressure gradient between Gibraltar and Iceland.
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: 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: |
Data provided by the UK Met Office |
| File Format: |
Data are NetCDF formatted
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Process overview
| Title | Computation of UKCP Global (60km) - European Circulation Indices |
| Abstract | The daily indices of the jet stream latitude and strength are calculated using the approach described in Woollings et al., 2010 (https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.625). This is calculated first by smoothing the tropospheric (850 hPa) zonal wind speed in the North Atlantic sector (0-60°W, 15-75°N) using a 5-day moving window. The location and magnitude of the maximum value in this smoothed daily field indicate the latitude and strength of the jet stream respectively. The daily weather type indices were generated by classifying daily mean sea level pressure (MSLP) (changes compared to the 1981-2000 average) into 30 weather regimes which capture the full range of circulation types affecting Europe (see Neal et al., 2016, https://doi.org/10.1002/met.1563). These 30 weather patterns are also provided as an amalgamated set of 8 weather patterns. The winter NAO index is calculated as the seasonal mean (December-January-February) of the difference in sea level pressure between Iceland and Gibraltar (the Atlantic pressure gradient). These are calculated using the difference between the seasonal mean sea level pressure time-series between grid-boxes containing at Gibraltar (36.14N, 5.35E) and Iceland (65.07N, 22.7W). |
| Input Description | None |
| Output Description | None |
| Software Reference | None |
- units: degrees
- long_name: Latitude of eddy-driven jet
- var_id: jetlat
- names: Latitude of eddy-driven jet
- units: m s-1
- long_name: Strength of eddy-driven jet
- var_id: jetstr
- names: Strength of eddy-driven jet
- units: 1
- long_name: Weather type of 30
- var_id: wtype30
- names: Weather type of 30
- units: 1
- long_name: Weather type of 8
- var_id: wtype8
- names: Weather type of 8
- units: hPa
- long_name: Winter atlantic pressure gradient
- var_id: naodjf
- names: Winter atlantic pressure gradient
- units: 1
- long_name: day
- var_id: day
- names: day
- units: 1
- long_name: ensemble_member
- var_id: ensemble_member
- names: ensemble_member
- units: 1
- long_name: ensemble_member_id
- var_id: ensemble_member_id
- names: ensemble_member_id
- var_id: latitude_bnds
- var_id: longitude_bnds
- units: 1
- long_name: model_id
- var_id: model_id
- names: model_id
- units: 1
- long_name: month_number
- var_id: month_number
- names: month_number
- var_id: plev_bnds
- units: hPa
- standard_name: air_pressure
- long_name: pressure
- var_id: plev
- names: air_pressure, pressure
- units: 1
- standard_name: realization
- var_id: realization
- long_name: realization
- names: realization
- units: 1
- long_name: season
- var_id: season
- names: season
- units: 1
- long_name: season_year
- var_id: season_year
- names: season_year
- var_id: time_bnds
- units: 1
- long_name: year
- var_id: year
- names: year
- units: 1
- long_name: yyyymmdd
- var_id: yyyymmdd
- names: yyyymmdd
Co-ordinate Variables
- units: degrees_north
- standard_name: latitude
- var_id: latitude
- names: latitude
- units: degrees_east
- standard_name: longitude
- var_id: longitude
- names: longitude
- long_name: time
- standard_name: time
- var_id: time
- names: time
Temporal Range
1900-01-01T00:00:00
2099-12-30T23:59:59
Geographic Extent
75.0000° |
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-60.0000° |
20.0000° |
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15.0000° |