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UK Climate Model Outputs for Carbon Dioxide Studies

This dataset contains model outputs from climate models that were run by the UK Met Office in 1986, 1990, and 1992.

The 1986 UKLO equilibrium runs include a control (1xCO2) run and a 2xCO2 run, both at 48x36 global resolution. We received monthly 15-year climatologies of maximum, minimum, and mean surface temperature, surface wind speed, sea-level pressure, precipitation, incoming solar radiation, and boundary layer temperature and humidity from these runs.

The 1990 UKHI equilibrium runs include a control run and an anomaly (2xCO2) run, both at 96x72 global resolution. From these runs, we received numerous parameters as a 10-year daily time series and as monthly, seasonal, and annual 10-year climatologies.

The 1992 UKTR 75-year transient experiment includes a control run with CO2 set at 323 ppm and a 1% per year compounded CO2 increase run, both at 96x72 global resolution. We received 10-year climatologies of soil moisture, precipitation, surface temperature, and surface solar radiation for decades 1, 6, and 8.

PERIODS:

VARIABLES:

Boundary Layer Temperature	Cloud Amount/Frequency	Cloud Base	Cloud Liquid Water/Ice
Evaporation	Geopotential Height	Heat Flux	Humidity
Incoming Solar Radiation	Longwave Radiation	Maximum/Minimum Temperature	Outgoing Longwave Radiation
Planetary Boundary Layer Height	Precipitation Amount	Runoff	Sea Level Pressure
Shortwave Radiation	Snow	Snow Depth	Snow Melt
Soil Moisture/Water Content	Soil Temperature	Surface Air Temperature	Surface Pressure
Wind Stress

LEVELS:

Ground or water surface	850 mbar	700 mbar	500 mbar
250 mbar	0.98 sigma	0.16 sigma	0.23 sigma
0.32 sigma	0.44 sigma	0.58 sigma	0.72 sigma
0.84 sigma	0.94 sigma	0.99 sigma	0.022 sigma
0.089 sigma

TIMES:

Every month (Mean)

Monthly Climatology

Winter Season Climatology

Spring Season Climatology

Summer Season Climatology

Autumn Season Climatology

Annual Climatology

TYPES:

Grid

COVERAGE:

Longitude Range: Westernmost=180W Easternmost=180E
Latitude Range: Southernmost=88.75S Northernmost=88.75N

Detailed coverage information

Detailed coverage information:
3.75° x 2.5°, 1.875E to 358.125E and 88.75N to 88.75S (96 x 72 Longitude/Latitude)
7.5° x 5°, 0E to 352.5E and 87.5N to 87.5S (48 x 36 Longitude/Latitude)

SOURCES:

GB/MOD/MET/HADLEY

Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, Met Office, Ministry of Defence, United Kingdom

PUBLICATIONS:

Wilson, C.A. and J.F.B. Mitchell, 1987: A Doubled CO2 Climate Sensitivity Experiment with a Global Climate Model including a Simple Ocean. J. Geophys. Res., 92(11), 13315-13343.

Recommended acknowledgement for this dataset:
"The data for this study are from the Research Data Archive (RDA) which is maintained by the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). NCAR is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The original data are available from the RDA (http://dss.ucar.edu) in dataset number ds318.2."

VOLUME:

150.88 MBytes (Entire dataset)

Volume details by subset

Volume details by subset:
Low Resolution Equilibrium Run (Jun 1986): 4.65 MBytes
High Resolution Equilibrium Run (1990): 138.19 MBytes
Transient (1% increase per year) Run (1992): 8.05 MBytes

DATA FORMATS:

Binary (see dataset documentation)

CONTACT:

For assistance with this dataset, please contact Bob Dattore (303-497-1825) . If the specialist is unavailable, please contact Data Help.

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