QUEST GSI (Global Scale Impacts of Climate Change): Climate, run-off and aquatic model simulations

QUEST GSI was led by Nigel Arnell (University of Reading) with co-investigators from the Universities of Aberdeen, Leeds, UEA, Edinburgh, Southampton, UCL, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, CEH and CEFAS.

This dataset collection contains model data simulations under various climate, run-off and aquatic scenarios.

A central aim of this project was to assess the global-scale impacts of climate change under a range of scenarios, across a number of sectors. A methodology was developed to construct scenarios from a range of climate models, representing changes under different emissions scenarios and fixed amounts of change in global mean temperature. Impacts were estimated across a range of sectors, including water resources, fluvial and coastal flooding, crop productivity and food security, ecosystem productivity and human health, at regional and global scales.

The project has provided quantitative information on these impacts and their distribution across the world. The general conclusions are that impacts may be significant at relatively low levels of climate change, that estimates of impact in some sectors are very uncertain due largely to uncertainty in projected changes in rainfall (particularly in south Asia), that there are no obvious thresholds for step changes in impact that are consistent across region and sector, and that socio-economic conditions may amplify or reduce impacts, depending on context.

A second project aim was to develop the methodology in such a way that it could be readily applied to estimate impacts under other climate scenarios representing for example specific policy objectives. With additional funding from other sources, the project methodology has been applied successfully to estimate the impacts avoided by a set of feasible emissions policies.

Date (Publication): 2008-12-10T03:15:45

Date (Creation): 2008-12-10T03:15:45

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/c498e38730dca65ac7a0bc197c3cf7a3

Citation identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / c498e38730dca65ac7a0bc197c3cf7a3

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)		unknown	Author
Unavailable	Arnell, Nigel	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Gosling, Simon	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	et. al,	Unavailable	Author
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Custodian
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	pointofContact
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Update scope: Series

Keywords

QUEST
GSI
climate change
aquatic
run off

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: All data within this dataset collection are available to any registered CEDA user.

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Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 2009-01-01T00:00:00

End date: 2080-12-31T23:59:59

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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Name	Version
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Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/c498e38730dca65ac7a0bc197c3cf7a3	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/research/quest-gsi/	QUEST -GSI Project website

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://quest.bris.ac.uk/research/themes/GSI.html	QUEST GSI: Global-scale impacts of climate change: an integrated multi-sectoral assessment

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://quest.bris.ac.uk/publications/Quest%20Final%20Report/QUEST_FinalReport_Final_July2011.pdf	QUEST report

Hierarchy level: Series

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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: Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.

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File identifier: c498e38730dca65ac7a0bc197c3cf7a3 XML

Metadata language: English

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Hierarchy level: Series

Hierarchy level name: series

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

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Point of contact

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