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Adverse Weather Scenarios for Future Electricity Systems
This dataset contains gridded meteorological data associated with challenging periods of weather for highly-renewable UK and European electricity systems of the future collected during the Adverse Weather Scenarios for Future Electricity Systems project. This project is a collaboration between the Met Office, the National Infrastructure Commission and the Climate Change Committee. More details about the project can be found in the associated documentation.
Two categories of challenging weather conditions; long duration adverse events and short duration wind ramping events, are provided.
Long duration events
The long duration event component of the dataset provides daily time series at 60 x 60 km spatial resolution, covering a European domain, for surface temperature, 100 m wind speed and net surface solar radiation data, representative of a selection of adverse weather scenarios. Each adverse weather scenario is contained within a time slice of data. For summer-time events, one calendar year (January - December) of data is provided, with the summer-time event occurring in the summer of that year. For winter-time events, two calendar years of data are provided, with the winter-time event occurring in the winter (October-March) intersecting the two calendar years. In all cases, the start date, duration and severity of the adverse weather event, contained within the time slice of data, are given in the NetCDF global ttributes.
Three types of long-duration adverse weather scenarios are represented: winter-time wind-drought-peak-demand events, summer-time wind-drought-peak-demand events, and summer-time surplus generation events. These are provided at various extreme levels (1 in 2, 5, 10, 20 ,50 and 100-year events); and for a range of current and nominal future climate change warming levels (1.2 [current day, early 2020s], 1.5, 2, 3, and 4 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial level), representative of events impacting either just the UK, or Europe as a whole.
The data provided are derived from the Met Office decadal prediction system hindcast ( https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/approach/modelling-systems/unified-model/climate-models/depresys), according to the climate change impacts identified from UKCP18 ( https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/approach/collaboration/ukcp/index).
Short duration events
The short duration event component of the dataset provides hourly time series at 4 x 4 km spatial resolution, covering a UK and surrounding offshore area domain, for 100 m wind speed, representative of a selection of wind generation ramping events. Each adverse weather scenario is contained within a time slice of data with up to one week before and one week after the day on which the event occurs (up to 15 days in total) provided. For the majority of events provided, the full 15 days are available, however for a small number of events which occur less than one week from the beginning or end of the underlying data used to derive this dataset, this is not possibly to supply, and these events are listed below. The start date and time along with the direction and magnitude of the ramp (change in wind capacity factor) contained
within the time slice of data, are given in the NetCDF global attributes.
The short duration wind generation ramping events are representative of events impacting five separate regions of Great Britain and surrounding offshore areas, as defined in the accompanying documentation. These regions are Scotland, the East England, West England and Wales offshore North and offshore South. The events are defined by changes in wind capacity factors occurring over different length time windows (1-hour, 3-hour, 6-hour, 12-hour and 24-hour windows). These are provided at various extreme levels (1 in 2, 5, 10, 20 ,50 and 100-year events) for the 1.2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial level (I.e. representative of early 2020s climate) and through the analysis outlined in the accompanying documentation are though to also be representative of the 2, 3, and 4 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial level nominal future climate change warming levels.
The data provided are derived from the UKCP18 local projections ( https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/approach/collaboration/ukcp/index).
The methods developed for characterising and representing these adverse weather scenarios, and the approach used to compile the final dataset are presented in the accompanying documentation.
Use of this data is subject to the terms of the Open Government Licence ( http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/). The following acknowledgment must be given when using the data: © Crown Copyright 2021, Met Office, funded by the National Infrastructure Commission.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2021-06-03T14:48:03
- Date (Creation)
- 2021-06-03T14:48:03
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/7beeed0bc7fa41feb10be22ee9d10f00
- Citation identifier
- NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / 7beeed0bc7fa41feb10be22ee9d10f00
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Dawkins, Laura
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Rushby, Isabel
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Pearce, Megan
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Wallace, Emily
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Butcher, Tom
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Custodian NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
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Dawkins, Laura
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Principal investigator NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
pointofContact NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
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Adverse weather scenarios
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future electricity systems
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adverse weather scenarios for future electricity systems
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UK
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Europe
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weather risk
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climate risk
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energy system
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extreme weather scenarios
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electricity system resilience
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climate change
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atmospheric conditions
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- Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
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- Grid
- Language
- English
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 1960-01-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 2097-12-31T00:00:00
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
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Name Version Data are NetCDF formatted
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
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Protocol Linkage Name https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/7beeed0bc7fa41feb10be22ee9d10f00 CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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Protocol Linkage Name http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/deposited2021/adverse_met_scenarios_electricity/data DOWNLOAD
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Protocol Linkage Name https://nic.org.uk/app/uploads/MetOffice_NIC_LiteratureReview_2019.pdf Weather and Climate Related Sensitivities and Risks in a Highly Renewable UK Energy System: A Literature Review
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Protocol Linkage Name https://nic.org.uk/app/uploads/MetOffice-Adverse-Weather-Scenarios-Discovery-Phase.pdf Adverse Weather Scenarios for Renewable Energy System Testing: Discovery Phase
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Protocol Linkage Name https://nic.org.uk/app/uploads/MetOffice-Characterising-Adverse-Weather-Phase-2a.pdf Characterising Adverse Weather for the UK Electricity System, including addendum for surplus generation events
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Protocol Linkage Name https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/approach/modelling-systems/unified-model/climate-models/depresys Met Office decadal prediction system
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Protocol Linkage Name https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/approach/collaboration/ukcp/index UKCP18 climate change impacts
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Protocol Linkage Name https://nic.org.uk/app/uploads/MetOffice_NIC_CCC_Phase2bReport.pdf Adverse Weather Scenarios for Future Electricity Systems: Developing the dataset of long-duration events
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Protocol Linkage Name https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw-OvlvSe_A Recording of the latest project user group meeting, describing the dataset and its development
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Protocol Linkage Name https://github.com/2021-Energy-Climate-Hackathon/group_2/tree/master/ExploreData GitHub repository containing example code for visualising the dataset in Python and R
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
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- 2010-12-08
- Statement
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This dataset has been developed by the Met Office as part of the 'Adverse Weather Scenarios for Future Electricity Systems' project, commissioned by the National Infrastructure Commission, and co-lead by the Climate Change Committee.
The data provided are derived from the Met Office decadal prediction system hindcast and UKCP18, according to the climate change impacts identified from UKCP18. Further information about the development of this dataset are presented in the accompanying reports. The data has been sent by the data providers to be archived at the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA).
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- English
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- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-06-11T02:21:13
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- UK GEMINI
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2.3
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
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