Global model data generated for COVID-19 simulations 2012-2014

Global model data has been generated for COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) simulations. The model used was the United Kingdom Earth System Model 1.0 (UKESM1.0), in an atmosphere-only nudged configuration, with Met Office Unified Model version 11.5. The data is on a global N96 grid (192 x 144 points), and covers the years 2012, 2013, and 2014. These data were used to study the effect of COVID-19 lockdowns (simulated scenarios) on atmospheric composition and radiative forcing.

The dataset includes data used in the paper submitted to Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) August 2020 with title 'Minimal climate impacts from short-lived climate forcers following emission reductions related to the COVID-19 pandemic'. See Details/Docs tab for a link to this. For this purpose, there are four experimental integrations (a1, a2, a3, a4), and a control (con) for each year. The files are labelled using variable codes such as m01s34i001 to determine the model variable field contained. A full description of what these are can be found in the included docs/file variable_codes.txt.

The data are in NetCDF format, and were generated from the following suites: u-bt034, u-bt090, u-bt091, u-bt092, u-bt637, u-bt341, u-bt342, u-bt343, u-bt344, u-bt926, u-bt375, u-bt376, u-bt377, u-bt378, u-bt927.

This is a NERC funded project.

Date (Publication): 2020-08-28T07:26:26

Date (Creation): 2020-08-28T07:26:26

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/b5ea7341a7164525b74143d8afe77223

Citation identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / b5ea7341a7164525b74143d8afe77223

Citation identifier: doi / 10.5285/b5ea7341a7164525b74143d8afe77223

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Unavailable	Staunton Sykes, John	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Shin, Youngsub	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Weber, James	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Archibald, Alex	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Abraham, Luke	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Archer-Nicholls, Scott	Unavailable	Author
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Custodian
Unavailable	Staunton Sykes, John	Unavailable	Owner
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor
Unavailable	Archibald, Alex	Unavailable	Principal investigator
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	pointofContact
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

COVID19
covid
emissions
aerosol
simulations

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Under the following licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.

Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 2012-01-01T00:00:00

End date: 2014-12-31T23:59:59

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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Name	Version
The data are in NetCDF format.

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/b5ea7341a7164525b74143d8afe77223	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/deposited2020/COVID19_emiss_reduc_study/data	DOWNLOAD

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://www.essoar.org/doi/10.1002/essoar.10503354.1	Minimal climate impacts from short-lived climate forcers following emission reductions related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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: Simulations run on Met Office MONSooN2. Data extracted from MASS to JASMIN as PP files. Converted to CF-compliant NetCDF format using Python 3.7.1.

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

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Metadata language: English

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Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2025-06-18T02:20:39

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Metadata author

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

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