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UKCP09: Met Office Hadley Centre Regional Climate Model (HadRM3-PPE) Data
The HadRM3-PPE-UK experiment was designed to simulate the regional climate for the UK in the period 1950-2100 for historical and medium (SRESA1B) emissions scenario. The model was run for the wider European area and the UK data extracted from it. It was a key dataset used in the generation of the UK-Climate Projections project (UKCP). It consists of an 11-member ensemble, each member driven by the same historical and SRESA1B emissions, with one unperturbed member and 10 members with different perturbations to the atmospheric parametrisations. The standard forcings include historical levels of greenhouse gases (including methane), sulphur (direct and first indirect forcing, sulphur chemistry without natural DMS and SO2 background emissions; anthropogenic SO2 emissions from surface and high level only) and tropospheric/stratospheric ozone.
This dataset collection contains output from an ensemble of various variants of the MOHC Regional Climate Model (HadRM3), run from 1950-2099 and used to dynamically downscale global climate model (GCM) results as part of the climate change experiments carried out by the Met Office Hadley Centre for the latest UK Climate Projections report. For these Regional Climate Model (RCM) experiments, transient projections from 11 Medium emissions (SRESA1B) scenario GCM experiments for 1950-2099 were used as boundary conditions.
The RCM used contains the same representations of atmospheric dynamical and physical processes as in a global model. It is run at a higher horizontal resolution (25km) but over a sub-global domain (typically 5000km square), and is driven at the boundary of the domain by time series of variables (such as temperature and winds) saved from a GCM projection. Sea surface temperatures and sea-ice extents are also prescribed from the GCM, since HadRM3 (like most RCMs) does not include an interactive ocean component. The purpose of RCMs is to provide a high resolution climate projection consistent with its driving GCM projection at spatial scales skilfully resolved by the latter, but adding realistic detail at finer scales. This is the "downscaling" process referred to above.
For the purposes of the UK Climate Projections (UKCP) project, the data corresponding to the UK domain were extracted from the original (larger) domain, and it is these data which are made available here. These data are provided at daily resolution.
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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2008-12-10T03:19:11
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2008-12-10T03:19:11
- Identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / f9c7d70b0e6d4c31c067e75ab67cb3cc
- Maintenance and update frequency
- unknown
- Update scope
- series
- Keywords
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- Met Office
- model
- rcm
- climate
- Europe
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- atmospheric conditions
- Limitations on Public Access
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
- Access to data within this collection is restricted. Please see the individual datasets within this collection for further access details.
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
- Usage limitations for the data within this collection is set at the individual dataset level. Please refer to the licence details of each underlying dataset.
- Spatial representation type
- grid
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 1950-01-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 2099-12-31T23:59:59
- Code
- WGS 84
Distribution Information
- Data format
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Contact data centre for format details.
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- Resource Locator
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
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BADC Doc: Variable Listings for the HadRM3-PPE-UK Dataset
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BADC Doc: HadRM3-PPE-UK Dataset: CSV format description
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BADC Doc: Structure of the HadRM3-PPE-UK Dataset
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UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP)
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"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
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"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
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"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
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BADC Doc: Ensemble Members of the HadRM3-PPE-UK Dataset
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BADC Doc: Grid Descriptions of the HadRM3-PPE-UK Dataset
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BADC Doc: PP File Format explained
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- Resource Locator
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BADC Doc: Variable Listings for the HadRM3-PPE-UK Dataset
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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BADC Doc: HadRM3-PPE-UK Dataset: CSV format description
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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BADC Doc: Structure of the HadRM3-PPE-UK Dataset
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP)
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"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
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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"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
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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"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
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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BADC Doc: Ensemble Members of the HadRM3-PPE-UK Dataset
No further details.
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BADC Doc: Grid Descriptions of the HadRM3-PPE-UK Dataset
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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BADC Doc: PP File Format explained
No further details.
- Quality Scope
- series
Report
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.
Metadata
- File identifier
- f9c7d70b0e6d4c31c067e75ab67cb3cc XML
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
- Resource type
- series
- Hierarchy level name
- series
- Metadata Date
- 2023-01-20T02:15:38
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
