Dataset
EuroCORDEX-UK: Regional climate projections for the UK domain at 12 km Resolution for 1980-2080
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 (12 km), 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 12 km data for the UK on the OSGB (WGS84) grid.
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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Access to these data is available to any registered CEDA user. Please Login or Register for a CEDA account to gain access.
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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Related Documents
| UKCP18 Guidance on data, access and formats |
| EuroCORDEX-UK plot explorer |
| EuroCORDEX-UK project website |
| CORDEX terms of use |
Citations: 1
The following citations have been automatically harvested from external sources associated with this resource where DOI tracking is possible. As such some citations may be missing from this list whilst others may not be accurate. Please contact the helpdesk to raise any issues to help refine these citation trackings.
| Barnes, C.R., Chandler, R.E. & Brierley, C.M. (2024) A Comparison of Regional Climate Projections With a Range of Climate Sensitivities. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 129. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023jd038917 https://doi.org/10.1029/2023jd038917 |
Process overview
| Title | EuroCORDEX-UK: Regional climate projections for the UK domain at 12 km Resolution for 1980-2080 |
| Abstract | Ten regional climate models were forced by outputs from six different general circulation models to 0.11 degree resolution (EUR-11) to produce an ensemble of 64 regional climate model runs. This data was conservatively regridded onto the 12 km OSGB grid, with land cells regridded only to land cell and sea cells regridded only to sea cells. |
| Input Description | None |
| Output Description | None |
| Software Reference | None |
- standard_name: air_temperature
- var_id: tas
- units: degC
- long_name: Mean air temperature
- units: W m-2
- standard_name: surface_net_downward_longwave_flux
- 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
- units: 1
- standard_name: specific_humidity
- var_id: huss
- long_name: Specific humidity
- units: 1
- long_name: ensemble_member
- var_id: ensemble_member
- units: 1
- long_name: ensemble_member_id
- var_id: ensemble_member_id
- var_id: grid_latitude
- var_id: grid_longitude
- units: 1
- long_name: month_number
- var_id: month_number
- units: m
- standard_name: projection_x_coordinate
- var_id: projection_x_coordinate
- var_id: projection_x_coordinate_bnds
- units: m
- standard_name: projection_y_coordinate
- var_id: projection_y_coordinate
- var_id: projection_y_coordinate_bnds
- units: 1
- long_name: season
- var_id: season
- var_id: time_bnds
- var_id: transverse_mercator
- 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
- long_name: time
- 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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49.8600° |