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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Metadata Language: English (en)

Dataset Reference Date (): 2016-09-05T11:00:00

Dataset Reference Date (): 2016-09-05T11:00:00

Identifier: http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/0899444452c740cc8cdc65e86fb301c7

Identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 0899444452c740cc8cdc65e86fb301c7

Identifier: doi / http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/B85E9319-1531-4C93-875B-E6BBC8B7D9AC

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Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

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Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

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Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

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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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Other constraints: Use of these data is covered by the following licence: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ . When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.

Spatial representation type: grid

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Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 1960-01-01T00:00:00

End date: 2098-12-31T23:59:00

Code: WGS 84

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Resource Locator: Maritime Industries- Environmental Risk and Vulnerability Assessment (MINERVA)
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Resource Locator: Nakicenovic et al 2000, IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios
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Resource Locator: Lowe et al 2009, UK Climate Projections Science Report: Marine and Coastal Projections
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Resource Locator: Tinker et al 2015, Validation of an ensemble modelling system for climate projections for the northwest European shelf seas
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Resource Locator: Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory Coastal Ocean Modelling System (POLCOMS)
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Resource Locator: Selecting members of the 'QUMP' perturbed-physics ensemble for use with PRECIS
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Resource Locator: Holt et al 2010, The potential impacts of climate change on the hydrography of the northwest European continental shelf
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Resource Locator: Lowe et al 2009, UK Climate Projections Science Report: Marine and Coastal Projections
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Resource Locator: Tinker et al 2015, Validation of an ensemble modelling system for climate projections for the northwest European shelf seas
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Dataset Reference Date (): 2010-12-08

Statement: 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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File identifier: 0899444452c740cc8cdc65e86fb301c7 XML

Metadata Language: English (en)

Character set: 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646

Parent identifier: MINERVA: Update to the UKCP09 Marine Report North-West European Shelf Seas Marine Climate Projections 9eba512621144dbaacda1ddb470f885b

Resource type: dataset

Metadata Date: 2023-12-01T00:34:43

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

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