Dataset
GloSAT historical1750 simulations : UKESM1-1-LL simulations covering the period 1750-2014
Update Frequency: Not Planned
Latest Data Update: 2025-11-18
Status: Completed
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Citable
Publication Date: 2025-12-19
DOI Publication Date: 2025-12-19
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Dataset Size: 1.98K Files | 2TB
Abstract
The Global Surface Air Temperature (GloSAT) model simulations were run on UK supercomputing platforms ARCHER2 and MONSooN using the UKESM1-1-LL UK Earth System Model described in Mulcahy, et al 2023 (https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-1569-2023).
The simulations were run under the NERC funded project GloSAT. NE/S015647/2
The experiments and model set up are all described in:
Ballinger, A., Schurer, A., Hegerl, G., Dittus, A., Hawkins, E., Cornes, R., Kent, E., Marshall, L., Morice, C., Osborn, T., and Rayner, N.A. Rumbold, S.:(2025) Importance of beginning industrial-era climate simulations in the eighteenth century, Environmental Research Letters,650, accepted.
This dataset contains 100 monthly variables for 6 historical 1750 ensemble members in CMOR CMIP6 netcdf data format (Climate Model Output Rewriter Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 6).
Citable as: Schurer, A.; Ballinger, A.; Marshall, L.; Dittus, A.; Hawkins, E.; Hegerl, G.; Rumbold, S. (2025): GloSAT historical1750 simulations : UKESM1-1-LL simulations covering the period 1750-2014. NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, 19 December 2025. doi:10.5285/9487085a6a3d4ca1aafa7c569e840d2a. https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/9487085a6a3d4ca1aafa7c569e840d2a
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: GloSAT, Climate model, UKESM1.1-LL
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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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This work used the ARCHER2 UK National Supercomputing Service, and Monsoon2, a collaborative High-Performance Computing facility funded by the Met Office and the Natural Environment Research Council, and JASMIN, the UK collaborative data analysis facility. UKESM1.1 simulations were performed on the HPC by Dr A. Schurer with data processed on JASMIN using the CDDS package by Dr A Schurer. Data were then uploaded to the CEDA archive. |
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Model simulations were checked by co-authors during the simulation process.The CDDS conversion package used to produce the files contains several in built data quality checks.
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CMOR CMIP6 NetCDF
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This dataset was generated by the computation detailed below.
| Title | UK Earth System Model (UKESM) version 1, UKESM1-1-LL model run for GloSAT project. |
| Abstract | The GloSAT model simulations were run on UK supercomputing platforms ARCHER2 and MONSooN using the UKESM1-1-LL Earth System Model described in Mulcahy, et al 2023 (https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-1569-2023). The experiments and model set up are all described in: |
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| Output Description | None |
| Software Reference | None |
- units: K
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- var_id: ta
- long_name: Air Temperature
- units: kg m-2 s-1
- var_id: ra
- standard_name: surface_upward_mass_flux_of_carbon_dioxide_expressed_as_carbon_due_to_plant_respiration
- long_name: Carbon Mass Flux into Atmosphere Due to Autotrophic (Plant) Respiration on Land [kgC m-2 s-1]
- units: kg m-2 s-1
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- long_name: Carbon Mass Flux out of Atmosphere Due to Gross Primary Production on Land [kgC m-2 s-1]
- units: kg m-2 s-1
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- var_id: nbp
- long_name: Carbon Mass Flux out of Atmosphere Due to Net Biospheric Production on Land [kgC m-2 s-1]
- units: kg m-2
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- var_id: cSoilFast
- standard_name: fast_soil_pool_mass_content_of_carbon
- units: kg m-2
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- units: kg m-2
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- units: kg m-2
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- var_id: cProduct
- long_name: Carbon Mass in Products of Land-Use Change
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- units: kg m-2
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- standard_name: geopotential_height
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- long_name: Global Average Sea Water Potential Temperature
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- var_id: zostoga
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- units: 1
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- long_name: Leaf Area Index
- var_id: lai
- units: kg m-2
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- long_name: Moisture in Upper Portion of Soil Column
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- units: K
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- long_name: Near-Surface Specific Humidity
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- var_id: rtmt
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- units: W m-2
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- long_name: Net Shortwave Surface Radiation
- var_id: rss
- units: m s-1
- standard_name: northward_wind
- var_id: vas
- long_name: Northward Near-Surface Wind
- units: W
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- var_id: hfbasin
- units: m s-1
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- long_name: Northward Wind
- units: kg s-1
- long_name: Ocean Barotropic Mass Streamfunction
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- var_id: msftbarot
- units: kg m-2
- standard_name: sea_water_mass_per_unit_area
- var_id: masscello
- long_name: Ocean Grid-Cell Mass per Area
- units: kg s-1
- long_name: Ocean Mass X Transport
- standard_name: ocean_mass_x_transport
- var_id: umo
- units: kg s-1
- long_name: Ocean Mass Y Transport
- standard_name: ocean_mass_y_transport
- var_id: vmo
- units: m
- long_name: Ocean Mixed Layer Thickness Defined by Sigma T
- standard_name: ocean_mixed_layer_thickness_defined_by_sigma_t
- var_id: mlotst
- units: m
- standard_name: cell_thickness
- var_id: thkcello
- long_name: Ocean Model Cell Thickness
- units: kg s-1
- long_name: Ocean Y Overturning Mass Streamfunction
- standard_name: ocean_y_overturning_mass_streamfunction
- var_id: msftyz
- units: Pa s-1
- standard_name: lagrangian_tendency_of_air_pressure
- var_id: wap
- long_name: Omega (=dp/dt)
- units: kg m-2 s-1
- long_name: Potential Evapotranspiration
- standard_name: water_potential_evaporation_flux
- var_id: evspsblpot
- var_id: pr
- units: kg m-2 s-1
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- long_name: Precipitation
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- units: %
- long_name: Relative Humidity
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- units: m
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- long_name: Sea Ice Thickness
- var_id: sithick
- standard_name: area_type
- var_id: type
- long_name: Sea Ice area type
- units: Pa
- var_id: psl
- long_name: Sea Level Pressure
- standard_name: air_pressure_at_mean_sea_level
- units: m
- var_id: zos
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- long_name: Sea Surface Height Above Geoid
- standard_name: sea_surface_salinity
- long_name: Sea Surface Salinity
- var_id: sos
- units: 0.001
- units: degC
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- var_id: tos
- long_name: Sea Surface Temperature
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- var_id: masso
- units: degC
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- long_name: Sea Water Potential Temperature
- standard_name: sea_water_salinity
- var_id: so
- long_name: Sea Water Salinity
- units: 0.001
- units: N m-2
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- long_name: Sea Water Surface Downward X Stress
- standard_name: downward_x_stress_at_sea_water_surface
- units: N m-2
- var_id: tauvo
- long_name: Sea Water Surface Downward Y Stress
- standard_name: downward_y_stress_at_sea_water_surface
- units: m s-1
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- long_name: Sea Water Vertical Velocity
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- units: m s-1
- var_id: vo
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- standard_name: sea_water_y_velocity
- units: %
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- long_name: Sea-Ice Area Percentage (Atmospheric Grid)
- var_id: siconca
- units: %
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- units: kg m-2 s-1
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- units: kg m-2 s-1
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- var_id: prsn
- long_name: Snowfall Flux where Ice Free Ocean over Sea
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- units: 1
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- var_id: hus
- long_name: Specific Humidity
- units: Pa
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- var_id: ps
- long_name: Surface Air Pressure
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- var_id: tauu
- long_name: Surface Downward Eastward Wind Stress
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- var_id: tauv
- long_name: Surface Downward Northward Wind Stress
- units: W m-2
- standard_name: surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- var_id: rldscs
- long_name: Surface Downwelling Clear-Sky Longwave Radiation
- units: W m-2
- standard_name: surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- var_id: rsdscs
- long_name: Surface Downwelling Clear-Sky Shortwave Radiation
- units: W m-2
- standard_name: surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- var_id: rlds
- long_name: Surface Downwelling Longwave Radiation
- units: W m-2
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- long_name: Surface Downwelling Shortwave Radiation
- units: kg m-2 s-1
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- long_name: Surface Runoff
- var_id: mrros
- units: kg m-2
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- var_id: snw
- long_name: Surface Snow Amount
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- var_id: snm
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- long_name: Surface Snow Melt
- units: kg m-2 s-1
- var_id: sbl
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- long_name: Surface Temperature
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- var_id: sitemptop
- var_id: hfls
- units: W m-2
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- long_name: Surface Upward Latent Heat Flux
- units: W m-2
- standard_name: surface_upward_sensible_heat_flux
- var_id: hfss
- long_name: Surface Upward Sensible Heat Flux
- units: W m-2
- standard_name: surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- var_id: rsuscs
- long_name: Surface Upwelling Clear-Sky Shortwave Radiation
- units: W m-2
- long_name: Surface Upwelling Longwave Radiation
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- var_id: rlus
- units: W m-2
- long_name: Surface Upwelling Shortwave Radiation
- standard_name: surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- var_id: rsus
- units: W m-2
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- long_name: TOA Incident Shortwave Radiation
- var_id: rlutcs
- units: W m-2
- standard_name: toa_outgoing_longwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky
- long_name: TOA Outgoing Clear-Sky Longwave Radiation
- var_id: rsutcs
- units: W m-2
- standard_name: toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky
- long_name: TOA Outgoing Clear-Sky Shortwave Radiation
- var_id: rlut
- units: W m-2
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- long_name: TOA Outgoing Longwave Radiation
- var_id: rsut
- units: W m-2
- standard_name: toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux
- long_name: TOA Outgoing Shortwave Radiation
- units: K
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- units: %
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- var_id: clt
- long_name: Total Cloud Cover Percentage
- var_id: rh
- units: kg m-2 s-1
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- units: kg m-2 s-1
- standard_name: runoff_flux
- var_id: mrro
- long_name: Total Runoff
- units: kg m-2
- long_name: Total Soil Moisture Content
- var_id: mrso
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- units: kg s-1
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- standard_name: upward_ocean_mass_transport
- var_id: wmo
- units: kg m-2 s-1
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- long_name: Water Evaporation from Soil
- var_id: evspsblsoi
- units: kg m-2
- var_id: prw
- standard_name: atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor
- long_name: Water Vapor Path
- units: m s-1
- standard_name: sea_ice_x_velocity
- long_name: X-Component of Sea-Ice Velocity
- var_id: siu
- units: m s-1
- standard_name: sea_ice_y_velocity
- long_name: Y-Component of Sea-Ice Velocity
- var_id: siv
- units: 1
- standard_name: atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_cloud
- var_id: tau
- long_name: cloud optical thickness
- units: m
- var_id: depth
- standard_name: depth
- long_name: depth
- var_id: depth_bnds
- units: 1
- var_id: i
- long_name: first spatial index for variables stored on an unstructured grid
- units: m
- standard_name: height
- var_id: height
- long_name: height
- var_id: lat_bnds
- var_id: lev_bnds
- var_id: lon_bnds
- standard_name: region
- long_name: ocean basin
- var_id: sector
- units: m
- standard_name: depth
- var_id: lev
- long_name: ocean depth coordinate
- var_id: plev_bnds
- units: Pa
- standard_name: air_pressure
- long_name: pressure
- var_id: plev
- var_id: rlat_bnds
- units: 1
- var_id: j
- long_name: second spatial index for variables stored on an unstructured grid
- var_id: tau_bnds
- var_id: time_bnds
- units: degrees_north
- var_id: vertices_latitude
- units: degrees_east
- var_id: vertices_longitude
Co-ordinate Variables
- units: degrees_north
- standard_name: latitude
- var_id: lat
- long_name: Latitude
- units: degrees_east
- standard_name: longitude
- var_id: lon
- long_name: Longitude
- units: degrees_north
- standard_name: latitude
- var_id: latitude
- long_name: latitude
- units: degrees_east
- standard_name: longitude
- var_id: longitude
- long_name: longitude
- long_name: time
- standard_name: time
- var_id: time
- units: days
Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
1750-01-01T00:00:00
End time:
2014-12-31T00:00:00
Geographic Extent
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