UKCP18 Simulated Impact of Mean Sea Level Change on Tidal Characteristics around the UK

The data are simulated instantaneous sea surface elevations above time-mean sea level due to tides alone. The data were produced by the Met Office Hadley Centre. The data were produced to investigate the impact of simulated mean sea level increase on UK coastal tides. To produce the data, the CS3 continental shelf model was used to simulate the tides under various different amounts of mean sea level increase (simulated by simply increasing the bathymetry). The data are the resulting simulated sea surface elevations above the mean sea level. The data covers a period of about 28 days (one spring-neap cycle), and applies to the UK coast.

There are several caveats which should be noted when using the ‘UKCP18 Simulated Impact of Mean Sea Level Change on Tidal Characteristics around the UK’ dataset:

1. The spin-up period has been included in the data. It takes about 48 hours to spin up to a realistic tide so users should remove the first 48 hours of data, or conduct their own analysis to assess how much spin-up time to remove, in order to get a realistic representation of the tide.

2. A land-sea mask has not been applied to the data so users should take care to ensure they are only using data from sea locations.

3. There is a rim of zeros around the edge of the data which should be ignored.

Further information on this dataset and UKCP18 can be found in the documentation section.

Date (Publication): 2018-11-26T09:00:00

Date (Creation): 2018-11-26T09:00:00

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/e5297a0c0329426380d4cd6e58c48f45

Citation identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / e5297a0c0329426380d4cd6e58c48f45

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

UKCP18
Marine
Tide Surge
Historical
Projections
Case Studies

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

Access constraints: Other restrictions

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Use constraints: Other restrictions

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Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

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Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 1969-12-31T23:00:00

End date: 2100-01-01T00:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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Name	Version
Data are NetCDF formatted

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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/e5297a0c0329426380d4cd6e58c48f45	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ukcp18/data/marine-sim/tide-proj	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/binaries/content/assets/metofficegovuk/pdf/research/ukcp/ukcp18-guidance---caveats-and-limitations.pdf	UKCP18 Guidance - caveats and limitations

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/approach/collaboration/ukcp/using-ukcp/guidance	Further information on this dataset and UKCP18 can be found here

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

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File identifier: e5297a0c0329426380d4cd6e58c48f45 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Parent identifier: UKCP18 High Temporal Resolution Short-term Events for Marine Case Studies
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Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2026-03-11T03:17:36

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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