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MINERVA: North-West European shelf seas marine climate projections data: spatial two-dimensional 30-year mean climatology ensemble members

These climate projections for the North-West European Shelf Seas update the shelf seas component of UKCP09 Marine Report (Lowe et al, 2009) and were funded by the MINERVA project.

This dataset contains three ensemble exemplars for model output based on the QUMP (Quantifying Uncertainties in Model Projections) ensemble of HadCM3 (Hadley Centre Coupled Model version 3) runs downscaled with the POLCOMS (Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory Coastal Ocean Modelling System) under SRES A1B (Special Report on Emissons Scenarios - A1B business-as-usual with medium emissions) conditions, from 1952-2098 for which 30-year means anomalies have been calculated from monthly mean data for each of the 12 months.

A Perturbed Physics Ensemble (PPE) of HadCM3 has been downscaled with the shelf seas model POLCOMS. Each of the 11 ensemble members has been downscaled as transient simulations (from 1952-2098) under the SRES A1B emissions scenario. The PPE (QUMP) was designed to span the range of uncertainty associated with model parameter uncertainty in the atmosphere of the driving global climate model. POLCOMS was run at 12 km resolution, with 32 vertical levels using s-coordinates over the NW European Shelf Seas domain (-18.3 to 14 degrees East, 43 to 63.56 degrees North). Monthly statistics of the model results were recorded.

Further details can be found in Tinker et al (2015).

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Date (Publication)
2016-09-05T11:00:00
Date (Creation)
2016-09-05T11:00:00
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/0899444452c740cc8cdc65e86fb301c7
Identifier
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 0899444452c740cc8cdc65e86fb301c7
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doi / http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/B85E9319-1531-4C93-875B-E6BBC8B7D9AC
Author
  Unavailable - Tinker, Jonathan ( author )
Custodian
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - custodian
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Owner
  Met Office - data_owner
Met Office , FitzRoy Road , Exeter , EX1 3PB ,
0370 900 0100
Distributor
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - distributor
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Principal investigator
  Unavailable - Pinnegar, John ( principal_investigator )
pointofContact
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - point_of_contact
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
pointofContact
  Unavailable - Tinker, Jonathan ( point_of_contact )
Publisher
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - publisher
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
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Keywords
  • MINERVA
  • UKCP
  • Marine Climate
  • Climate Projection
  • Uncertainty
  • Climate Downscaling
  • Shelf Seas
  • Temperature
  • SST
  • Salinity
  • Stratification
  • Sea Surface Temperature
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • atmospheric conditions
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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.
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Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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Begin date
1960-01-01T00:00:00
End date
2098-12-31T23:59:00
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
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  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - Data Center Contact
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
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Maritime Industries- Environmental Risk and Vulnerability Assessment (MINERVA)

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Nakicenovic et al 2000, IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios

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Lowe et al 2009, UK Climate Projections Science Report: Marine and Coastal Projections

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Tinker et al 2015, Validation of an ensemble modelling system for climate projections for the northwest European shelf seas

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Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory Coastal Ocean Modelling System (POLCOMS)

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Selecting members of the 'QUMP' perturbed-physics ensemble for use with PRECIS

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Holt et al 2010, The potential impacts of climate change on the hydrography of the northwest European continental shelf

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2010-12-08
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A Perturbed Physics Ensemble (PPE) of the Atmosphere-Ocean General Circulation Model (AO-GCM, or GCM) HadCM3 is downscaled by the shelf seas model POLCOMS. Monthly mean (and time-step minimum, maximum and variance) 3D (temperature, salinity, u- and v- components of currents) and 2D (surface elevation) fields were saved and the following variables were calculated:

SST: Sea Surface Temperature – surface model layer

SSS: Sea Surface Salinity – surface model layer

NBT: Near-Bed Temperature – bottom model layer

NBS: Near-Bed Salinity – bottom model layer

DFT: Difference between SST and NBT – surface model layer minus bottom model layer

DFS: Difference between SSS and NBS – surface model layer minus bottom model layer

PEA: Potential Energy Anomaly (a measure of stratification).

MLD: Mixed Layer Depth

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Parent identifier
MINERVA: Update to the UKCP09 Marine Report North-West European Shelf Seas Marine Climate Projections 9eba512621144dbaacda1ddb470f885b
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dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2025-07-15T02:10:29
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
 
 

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