RAPID: Meteorology model output from the HadCM3 control ensemble (1991-2030)
Data from "The Predictability of rapid climate change associated with the Atlantic thermohaline circulation" project. This was a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) RAPID Climate Change Research Programme project (Round 2 - NE/C509174/1 - Duration 1 Jan 2005 - 18 Sep 2008) led by Prof Rowan Sutton of the University of Reading, with co-investigators at the University of Oxford and at the National Oceanography Centre. The dataset identifies the dominant sources of uncertainty in General Circulation Model predictions of the Thermohaline Circulation.
This dataset contains meteorology model output from the HadCM3 control ensemble.
Forecasts of the future behaviour of the Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation (THC) are needed to inform policy on climate change. Such forecasts must be probabilistic taking into account the principal sources of uncertainty. It is not possible to sample exhaustively all sources of uncertainty because the number of degrees of freedom is too great. Consequently a future forecasting system will be reliant on strategies to identify those dimensions of uncertainty that are most important. This project developed an objective methodology to identify the dominant sources of uncertainty in General Circulation Model predictions of the THC. Perturbations to oceanic initial conditions and climate model parameters that generate the most rapid change in the THC and related aspects of climate were identified. These perturbations were used to produce an early probabilistic forecast for the behaviour of the THC up to 2100. The results were also feed directly into the next generation of ensemble climate predictions being developed at the UK Hadley Centre.
Rapid Climate Change (RAPID) was a £20 million, six-year (2001-2007) programme for the Natural Environment Research Council. The programme aimed to improve the ability to quantify the probability and magnitude of future rapid change in climate, with a main (but not exclusive) focus on the role of the Atlantic Ocean's Thermohaline Circulation.
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- English (en)
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2014-09-21T17:24:54
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- 2014-09-21T17:24:54
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- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / cbfb3d8c0da0a209cb13af7da2f38992
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- RAPID
- Climate change
- Atlantic Ocean's Thermohaline Circulation
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- atmospheric conditions
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- Spatial representation type
- grid
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Begin date
- 1991-08-31T23:00:00
- End date
- 2030-01-01T23:59:59
- Code
- WGS 84
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Data are netCDF formatted
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- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Data supplied by Reading University.
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- cbfb3d8c0da0a209cb13af7da2f38992 XML
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
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- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
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- RAPID: Numerical meteorological model output data from the HadCM3 control ensemble 96666de7316b34c99a8ac400335017cd
- Resource type
- dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2022-11-11T00:24:28
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3