UKCP09: Annual Cooling Degree Days Time Series for the United Kingdom

United Kingdom climate projections data containing a time series of annual cooling degree days. The data is calculated as the day-by-day sum of the mean number of degrees by which the air temperature exceeds 22°C. The dataset was created with financial support from the UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and is promoted by the UK Climate Impacts Programme.

Use Cases

• Modeling future building cooling energy demand based on projected temperature exceedances.
• Analyzing long-term climate change trends in the UK based on annual cooling degree day aggregates.
• Assessing regional climate impacts for infrastructure planning based on temperature-derived metrics.

Strengths

• Data is part of the official UK Climate Projections (UKCP09) framework.
• Supported by the UK government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

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-focused climate data.

Provenance

Source

Met Office (UK)

Collection Method

Calculated from climate model projections.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:31:19.095302; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom