Coupled Ocean Atmosphere and European Climate (COAPEC): Monthly Means of Atmospheric and Oceanic Model Data

The COAPEC (Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Processes and European Climate) programme was a 5 year NERC thematic programme designed to examine the variability of the Earth's climate. Interactions between the oceans and the atmosphere play a major role in governing this variability. The goal of COAPEC was to determine the impact on climate, especially European climate, of the coupling between the Atlantic Ocean and the atmosphere, including the influence of ENSO on this coupling.

To aid researchers within the COAPEC programme, datasets have been retrieved from a variety of coupled models.

* 100 years (2079 - 2178) monthly means of all atmospheric and oceanic fields derived from the control run of the Hadley Centre HadCM3 model.

* 1000 years (1849-2849) of monthly means of selected parameters from the HadCM3 control run.

* 50 years (1950-2000) of MOM (GFDL Modular Ocean Model) data.

* Output from the 100 year HadCM3 control integration produced using UM4.5 on the BADC Beowulf Cluster.

* Surface flux climatology data from SOC

If using the 100 year dataset from the Hadley Centre, please be aware that the run was restarted part of the way through. This means that there is a difference in the indicated date of origin in the data files, and can cause a discontinuity if not corrected for during analysis.

The 1000 year HadCM3 dataset has been extracted from the Met Office and these data have been added to the archive.

The data from a 500 year HadCM3 control integration performed on a linux Beowulf cluster using UM version 4.5 at the BADC has been included in the archive. Please see the README.txt for more information.

Date (Publication): 2001-12-10T03:02:06

Date (Creation): 2001-12-10T03:02:06

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/fce964f2c07f107e3db5fb0a5c09c9b8

Citation identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / fce964f2c07f107e3db5fb0a5c09c9b8

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)		unknown	Author
Unavailable	Snaith, Helen	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

COAPEC
Ocean
Atmosphere
Model

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

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Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/missing_licence.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under unstated 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.

Other constraints: Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/ecmwf_op_agreement.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under academic 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.

Other constraints: Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/ukmo_agreement.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under academic 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: 1849-01-01T00:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Name	Version
Contact data centre for format details.

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/fce964f2c07f107e3db5fb0a5c09c9b8	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~mat/coapec/	COAPEC website, University of Reading

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/programmes/coapec/	COAPEC website at NERC

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/coapec/references.html	COAPEC Publications

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/JRD/coapec/index.php	COAPEC

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/hadcm3-control/variable_list.html	Monthly mean fields archived from the HadCM3 Control run

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/ecmwf-op/seasonal_fcs.html	ECMWF Seasonal Forecast (Hindcast) Ensemble data

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/coapec/comparison.pdf	A comparison between HadCM3 integrations for COAPEC

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://zenodo.org/record/7354072	A comparison between HadCM3 integrations for COAPEC using Beowulf and Cray T3E (unpublished)

Hierarchy level: Series

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

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File identifier: fce964f2c07f107e3db5fb0a5c09c9b8 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Series

Hierarchy level name: series

Date stamp: 2026-02-25T03:26:19

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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