RAPID: FAMOUS meteorology and ocean model outputs
"Improving our ability to predict rapid changes in the El Nino Southern Oscillation climatic phenomenon" project, which was a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) RAPID Climate Change Research Programme project (Round 1 - NER/T/S/2002/00443 - Duration 1 Jan 2004 - 30 Sep 2007) led by Prof Alexander Tudhope of the University of Edinburgh, with co-investigators at the Scottish Universities Environment Research Centre, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, and the University of Reading.
This dataset collection contains meteorology and ocean model outputs from FAMOUS model.
The objective was to use a combination of palaeoclimate reconstruction from annually-banded corals and the fully coupled HadCM3 atmosphere-ocean general circulation model to develop an understanding of the controls on variability in the strength and frequency of ENSO, and to improve our ability to predict the likelihood of future rapid changes in this important element of the climate system. To achieve this, we targeted three periods:0-2.5 ka: Representative of near-modern climate forcing; revealing the internal variability in the system.6-9 ka: a period of weak or absent ENSO, and different orbital forcing; a test of the model's ability to capture externally-forced change in ENSO.200-2100 AD: by using the palaeo periods to test and optimise model parameterisation, produce a new, improved, prediction of ENSO variability in a warming world.
Rapid Climate Change (RAPID) was a £20 million, six-year (2001-2007) programme for the Natural Environment Research Council. The programme aimed to improve the ability to quantify the probability and magnitude of future rapid change in climate, with a main (but not exclusive) focus on the role of the Atlantic Ocean's Thermohaline Circulation.
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- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2008-12-10T10:53:53
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2008-12-10T10:53:53
- Identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 34e0ce3a92994050b4ab34bd05a0a0ab
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- notPlanned
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- dataset
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- RAPID
- Climate change
- Atlantic Ocean's Thermohaline Circulation
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- atmospheric conditions
- Limitations on Public Access
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
- Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
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- otherRestrictions
- Spatial representation type
- grid
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Begin date
- 1990-01-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 2091-01-01T00:00:00
- Code
- WGS 84
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Data are netCDF formatted
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Data are netCDF formatted
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- Resource Locator
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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DOWNLOAD
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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DOWNLOAD
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- dataset
Report
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Data provided by contributing modelling centres to the BADC for archiving.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 34e0ce3a92994050b4ab34bd05a0a0ab XML
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
- Parent identifier
- RAPID Understanding uncertainty in simulations of THC-related rapid climate change: 6ceb72ed91df42f69050a2a0fa18ea55
- Resource type
- dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2024-03-25T00:49:03
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3