Description
Past (observed) climate and future climate scenario projections data that were produced as part of the UK climate projections 2009 (UKCP09) service. The data produced by the UK Met Office providing information on plausible changes in 21st century climate for the UK helping to inform on adaptation to a changing climate. A UKCP09 website provided climate information for the UK and its regions. Through the website user interface climate statistics over the UK could be calculated dynamically. The data that informs these calculations is made available here.
UKCP09 provides future climate projections for land and marine regions as well as observed (past) climate data for the UK. Additionally a copy of the projections csv archive is provided. These are zip files of batch processed UKCP09 data outputs.
The projections improve upon the previous climate projections (UKCIP 2002) by incorporating more recent scientific understanding, providing data at a higher spatial resolution and providing an approach to dealing with uncertainties through probabilistic projections.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dataset Homepage | Unknown | Open resource | |
| Climate projections report | Unknown | Open resource | |
| Briefing report | Unknown | Open resource | |
| UKCP09 archive structure overview | Unknown | Open resource | |
| "A methodology for probabilistic predictions of regional climate change from perturbed physics ensembles", J.M.Murphy et al, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A (2007) 365, 1993-2028 doi:10.1098/rsta.2007.2077 | Unknown | Open resource | |
| "Ensembles and probabilities: a new era in the prediction of climate change", M. Collins, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A (2007) 365, 1957-1970 doi:10.1098/rsta.2007.2068 | Unknown | Open resource | |
| "The Met Office Hadley Centre climate modelling capability: the competing requirements for improved resolution, complexity and dealing with uncertainty", V. Pope et al,Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A (2007) 365, 2635-2657 doi:10.1098/rsta.2007.2087 | Unknown | Open resource | |
| UK climate projections website | Unknown | Open resource |