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  • Amendments to the Observed trends report

The definitions for Heating Degree Days and Cooling Degree Days have been clarified. See the Table A1.2 in the Annex to the Observed trends report.

  • UKCP09 User Survey

Thank you to all who responded to the UKCP09 User survey last summer. A summary of the results, and an overview of our responses to the main suggestions, are now available to download.

  • Observed data for aggregated areas

Historical data for the UKCP09 aggregated areas has been added to the Met Office observed data site . 

  • UKCP09 .csv archive now available

An archive of UKCP09 data is now available from the User Interface (UI) . The archive makes for more rapid downloading of large amounts of data, and contains data on:

  • Probabilistic projections over land: Sampled data of projections of both change and absolute future climate, for all time periods, temporal averages, spatial averages and emissions scenarios.
  • Probabilistic projections over marine regions: Sampled data of projections of climate change, for all time periods, temporal averages and emissions scenarios.
  • Sea level rise projections: Both absolute and relative sea level rise projections are available for all three emissions scenarios and all grid cells.
  • Storm surge projections: Projections are available for all grid cells.
  • Global mean annual temperature change: These data provide the change in global mean temperature associated with each of the 10,000 samples in the sampled data; and a cumulative distribution function (CDF) data set is also available,

Cumulative distribution function (CDF) data for the probabilistic projections over land and marine regions should be available in the near future. 

  • UKCP09 online discussion forum

As part of the ongoing work with users of UKCP09, a discussion forum has been added to the UKCIP online training website. 

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  • New case studies added

The Case studies section now includes live studies as well as the Worked examples that were prepared for launch.

  • Technical note on surface wind speed

To address the lack of wind speed data available directly from UKCP09, the Met Office have provided a Technical note [1Mb] that looks at the 11-member RCM. (pdf, 10.6 MB). A supplement to the wind speed note [334kb] was added in October 2010. (pdf, 340 KB).

  • Shapefiles now available

Shapefiles are now available from the User Interface - select the Shapefile option from the Outputs page. Guidance on use of the files can be found in the Reports & guidance section.

  • Amendments to the science report

Minor amendments to the Climate change projections report were added on July 2nd 2009.