HadRM3 European Regional Climate Simulation provides high-resolution projections for a limited European area under the IPCC SRES-A2 emissions scenario. The dataset contains a 3-member ensemble covering the period 2071-2100, produced by the Hadley Centre for the UK Climate Impacts Programme 2002. It models forcings including greenhouse gases, sulfur, and ozone at approximately 50km resolution.
Use Cases
- Analyze spatial patterns of future climate change from greenhouse gas forcings across the European domain.
- Compare inter-annual and decadal variability between the three ensemble members to assess natural climate noise.
- Apply pattern-scaling techniques using this simulation's data to infer climates for other emissions scenarios.
- Study the influence of specific forcings like sulfur and tropospheric/stratospheric ozone on regional climate projections.
- Validate higher-resolution models against this 50km resolution simulation of fine-scale climate features.
Strengths
- Three ensemble members reduce noise from natural climate variability for the core climate signal.
- Simulation covers a 30-year future period (2071-2100) under a defined IPCC scenario.
- High spatial resolution of approximately 50km captures more realistic local topography and fine-scale features.
Limitations
- Dataset is temporally stale, projecting a future period with a last update date of 2100-02-01.
- Spatial coverage is limited to a specific European regional area, not global.
- Relies on boundary conditions from a coarser global model (HadAM3), introducing potential dependency errors.
Provenance
- Source
- Hadley Centre, UK Met Office, for the UK Climate Impacts Programme 2002.
- Collection Method
- Regional climate model simulation using HadRM3, driven by boundary conditions from the HadAM3 global model.
- Time Range
- 2071-2100
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Limited area European region at approximately 0.44° x 0.44° (50km) resolution.