CHESS-SCAPE: Future projections of meteorological variables at 1 km resolution for the United Kingdom 1980-2080 derived from UK Climate Projections 2018

Gridded daily meteorological variables over the United Kingdom at 1 km resolution for the years 1980-2080. This dataset is an ensemble of four different realisations of future climate for each of four different representative concentration pathway scenarios (RCP2.6, RCP4.5, RCP6.0 and RCP8.5), provided both with and without bias correction. This dataset contains time series of daily mean values of air temperature (K), specific humidity (kg kg-1), relative humidity (%), wind speed (m s-1), downward longwave radiation (W m-2), downward shortwave radiation (W m-2), precipitation (kg m-2 s-2) and surface air pressure (Pa). It also contains time series of daily minimum air temperature (K), daily maximum air temperature (K) and daily temperature range (K). The data are provided in gridded netCDF files at 1 km resolution aligned to the Ordnance Survey / British National Grid. There is one file for each variable for each month of the daily data. Also provided are monthly, seasonal and annual means, for which there is one file for each variable for each time resolution. Additionally twenty year mean-monthly (Jan-Dec) climatologies at ten year intervals are provided, for which there is one file for each variable for each twenty year time slice. The projections use a 360-day calendar, where each month consists of 30 days.

Date (Publication): 2022-03-28T16:24:32

Date (Creation): 2022-03-28T16:24:32

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/8194b416cbee482b89e0dfbe17c5786c

Citation identifier: NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / 8194b416cbee482b89e0dfbe17c5786c

Citation identifier: doi / 10.5285/8194b416cbee482b89e0dfbe17c5786c

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Unavailable	Robinson, Emma L.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Huntingford, Chris	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Semeena, V. S.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Bullock, James M.	Unavailable	Author
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Custodian
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor
Unavailable	Alan, Jenkins	Unavailable	Principal investigator
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	pointofContact
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

Update scope: Dataset

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atmospheric conditions

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Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

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Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 1980-12-01T00:00:00

End date: 2080-12-01T00:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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NetCDF

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor

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	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/8194b416cbee482b89e0dfbe17c5786c	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

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	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/deposited2021/chess-scape/data	DOWNLOAD

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://www.ceh.ac.uk/services/integrated-hydrological-digital-terrain-model	Integrated Hydrological Digital Terrain Model (IHDTM)

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/50m-digital-terrain-model-height-data	Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland (OSNI) Open Dat a 50m Digital Terrain Model

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/documents/51861941-c38d-46e6-9a31-6e9a293fc3d5	Standardised Annual Average Rainfall 1961-90 (SAAR 61-9 0

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://globalbedo.org	European Space Agency (ESA) GlobAlbedo project albedo

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://doi.org/10.5285/2ab15bf0-ad08-415c-ba64-831168be7293	Climate Hydrology and Ecology research Support System meteorology dataset for Great Britain

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://pcmdi.llnl.gov/mips/cmip5	5th Coupled Model Intercomparison Project

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Title: 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

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Statement: This dataset was derived from four ensemble members of the United Kingdom Climate Projections 2018 (UKCP18) Regional Projections on a 12km grid over

the United Kingdom for 1980-2080 ( https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/589211abeb844070a95d061c8cc7f604, v20190731), which is a twelve member perturbed parameter ensemble of climate model projections for representative concentration pathway (RCP) scenario RCP8.5. Selected daily UKCP18 RCM variables were downscaled to 1 km using adapted Climate, Hydrology and Ecology research Support System (CHESS) downscaling methodology, taking into account topographic information. Ancillary datasets were obtained from the surface elevation of the climate model ( https://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ukcp18/data/land-rcm/ancil/orog), the Integrated Hydrological Digital Terrain Model (IHDTM; https://www.ceh.ac.uk/services/integrated-hydrological-digital-terrain-model), the Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland (OSNI) Open Data 50m Digital Terrain Model ( https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/50m-digital-terrain-model-height-data), Standardised Annual Average Rainfall 1961-90 (SAAR 61-90; https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/documents/51861941-c38d-46e6-9a31-6e9a293fc3d5), the European Space Agency (ESA) GlobAlbedo project albedo ( http://globalbedo.org) and UK Energy Technology Support Unit (ETSU) mean wind speeds. Where applied, bias-correction was calculated seasonally using the Climate Hydrology and Ecology research Support System meteorology dataset for Great Britain (CHESS-met; https://doi.org/10.5285/2ab15bf0-ad08-415c-ba64-831168be7293) observation-based dataset. Variables for RCP2.6, RCP4.5 and RCP6.0 were calculated using time-shifting and pattern-scaling of the RCP8.5 scenarios, using selected members of the 5th Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5; https://pcmdi.llnl.gov/mips/cmip5) and UKCP18 Global Climate Model Projections for the entire globe ( https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/f1a2fc3c120f400396a92f5de84d596a) to determine future warming trajectories.

Data were produced by the project team and supplied for archiving at the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA).

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Date stamp: 2025-12-10T03:23:27

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Point of contact

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