UKCP09 provides past observed climate data and future scenario projections for the UK, produced by the UK Met Office. The projections improve upon the previous UKCIP 2002 effort by incorporating more recent scientific understanding and providing higher spatial resolution. A probabilistic approach is used to deal with uncertainties in 21st-century climate changes.
Use Cases
- Modeling future climate risks for UK infrastructure based on probabilistic projections.
- Analyzing historical climate trends for UK regions based on observed data.
- Informing national and regional climate adaptation plans based on scenario data.
- Comparing climate model projections across different spatial resolutions.
Strengths
- Projections incorporate more recent scientific understanding than the prior UKCIP 2002 model.
- Data includes both past observed climate and future scenario projections for land and marine regions.
- Provides an approach to dealing with uncertainties through probabilistic projections.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to uk_data, focusing primarily on the UK.
Provenance
- Source
- UK Met Office, provided by the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis.
- Collection Method
- Produced as part of the UK Climate Projections 2009 (UKCP09) service.
- Time Range
- Past observed data and 21st-century future projections.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:02.358205; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- United Kingdom land and marine regions.