UK Met Office Climate Model Outputs for CO2 Studies, 1986-1992

United Kingdom Met Office climate model outputs from 1986, 1990, and 1992. The dataset includes equilibrium runs at 48x36 and 96x72 global resolution and a transient experiment, providing climatologies and time series for parameters like surface temperature, precipitation, and solar radiation. The data was produced by the UK Met Office and aggregated by SCIOPS.

Use Cases

• Compare equilibrium climate states based on control (1xCO2) and doubled CO2 (2xCO2) scenarios.
• Analyze transient climate change effects using the 75-year experiment with a 1% annual CO2 increase.
• Study spatial patterns of surface temperature, precipitation, and soil moisture from the provided climatologies.
• Validate or benchmark other climate models using the high-resolution (96x72) model outputs.

Strengths

• Includes model runs from three distinct years (1986, 1990, 1992), providing a historical perspective.
• Contains data at two spatial resolutions (48x36 and 96x72), allowing for scale comparison.
• Provides multiple temporal aggregations, including daily time series and monthly, seasonal, and annual climatologies.

Limitations

• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

United Kingdom Met Office, aggregated by SCIOPS.

Collection Method

Climate model simulation outputs.

Time Range

Model runs from 1986, 1990, and 1992; climatologies cover 10-15 year periods.

Freshness

Model outputs are from 1986, 1990, and 1992; the dataset itself has an unknown last update date.

Geography

Global coverage at specified resolutions (48x36 and 96x72 grids).