A-CURE: Monthly mean perturbed parameter ensemble data

A-CURE was a NERC funded project that tackled one of the most challenging and persistent problems in atmospheric science – understanding and quantifying how changes in aerosol particles caused by anthropogenic activities affect climate. The data here are monthly mean variable data from a large perturbed parameter ensemble of UKESM1 simulations, nudged to horizontal winds above around 2km. Each variable has 220 or 221 members, as indicated in file names. Some months have one fewer member because a model variant repeatedly did not run to completion due to combined model parameter values. The 221 members are model variants that combine the effects of 54 aerosol and physical atmosphere parameters. Variable data in this ensemble span the uncertainty in UKESM1 from these parametric sources.

Date (Publication): 2021-11-18T14:36:58

Date (Creation): 2021-11-18T14:36:58

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/b735718d66c1403fbf6b93ba3bd3b1a9

Citation identifier: NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / b735718d66c1403fbf6b93ba3bd3b1a9

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Unavailable	Regayre, Leighton	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Carslaw, Ken	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Deaconu, Lucia	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Symonds, Chris	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Richardson, Mark	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Langton, Thomas	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Watson-Parris, Duncan	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Stier, Philip	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
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	pointofContact
Unavailable	Regayre, Leighton	Unavailable	pointofContact
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

aerosol
climate
atmosphere
emissions
ppe

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.

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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: 2016-12-01T00:00:00

End date: 2017-11-01T23:59:59

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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The data are in NetCDF format.

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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/b735718d66c1403fbf6b93ba3bd3b1a9	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/a-cure/data/	DOWNLOAD

Hierarchy level: Dataset

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

Data were generated using the Met Office UK Earth System Model 1 (UKESM1) at N96 horizontal resolution. Data from field files were converted to postprocessed (pp) files on the ARCHER HPC. Variable data from each model variant was extracted from pp files on the JASMIN HPC and collated into individual monthly mean files for each variable.

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File identifier: b735718d66c1403fbf6b93ba3bd3b1a9 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2026-01-15T03:20:50

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Metadata author

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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