UKCP Local Projections on a 5km grid over the UK for 1980-2080

Convection permitting climate model projections produced as part of the UK Climate Projection 2018 (UKCP18) project. The data produced by the Met Office Hadley Centre provides information on changes in climate for the UK until 2080, downscaled to a high resolution (2.2km), helping to inform adaptation to a changing climate.

The projections cover the UK and the time period 01/12/1980 to 30/11/2080 for a high emissions scenario RCP8.5. Each projection provides an example of climate variability in a changing climate, which is consistent across climate variables at different times and spatial locations.

This dataset contains 2.2km data on a rotated pole regridded onto a 5km grid on the Ordnance Survey's British National Grid. Further information on this dataset and UKCP18 can be found in the documentation section.

Note that the first version of this data covered three time slices (1981-2000, 2021-2040 and 2061-2080), and in March 2023 the remaining time slices (2001-2020, 2041-2060) were added. In December 2024, an additional four downscaled CMIP5 members were added . Also note that the data for the three time slices (1981-2000, 2021-2040 and 2061-2080) were updated during summer 2021, after the correction of a coding error relating to graupel. Full details can be found on the Met Office website, on the" UKCP Project News page in the documentation section.

Date (Publication): 2019-09-16T08:00:00

Date (Creation): 2019-09-16T08:00:00

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/e304987739e04cdc960598fa5e4439d0

Citation identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / e304987739e04cdc960598fa5e4439d0

Point of contact

Organisation name	Electronic mail address	Role
Met Office Hadley Centre (MOHC)	enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk	Author
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)	support@ceda.ac.uk	Custodian
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)	support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor
Met Office	enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk	Principal investigator
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)	support@ceda.ac.uk	pointofContact
Met Office Hadley Centre (MOHC)	enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk	pointofContact
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)	support@ceda.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

UK
Climate
Projections
UKCP18
Regional
Europe
Simulation
Model
Runs
UKCP Local (2.2km)
Local

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

Access constraints: Other restrictions

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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: 1980-12-01T00:00:00

End date: 2080-11-30T00:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Name	Version
Data are NetCDF formatted

Distributor contact

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

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/e304987739e04cdc960598fa5e4439d0	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ukcp18/data/land-cpm/uk/5km	DOWNLOAD

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/content/assets/metofficegovuk/pdf/research/ukcp/ukcp18-guidance-data-availability-access-and-formats.pdf	UKCP18 Guidance on data, access and formats

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/approach/collaboration/ukcp/about/project-news	UKCP Project News page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/approach/collaboration/ukcp/using-ukcp/guidance	UK Climate Projections (UKCP18) guidance and reports

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: Data provided by the UK Met Office

Metadata

File identifier: e304987739e04cdc960598fa5e4439d0 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Parent identifier: UKCP18 Convection-Permitting Model Projections for the UK at 2.2km resolution
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Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2026-02-25T03:16:38

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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