Customisable maps
Customisable maps are user-produced maps that show the projected amount of climate change across a mapped area (e.g. UK-wide or adminstrative region). They can be produced using the User Interface website and exported as images in various file formats (PDF, .ps, .png and .jpg). A range of ready-made maps are also available in the Maps & key findings section. They are produced using the CDF data.
More detailed information about the customisable maps is available, along with guidance on how to interpret the output.
The maps are available for the Climate change projections and the Marine & coastal projections, and each map can be used to show:
- Projected climate change or projected future climate
- For one variable
- For multiple grid squares across the mapped area
- For one time period
- For one temporal average
- For one of the three emissions scenarios
- For one probability level (probabilistic projections only)
- What should I use them for?
- To show the spatial pattern of projected changes at a given probability level.
- To show spatial variations in the amount of uncertainty.
- What to be aware of
It is not recommended that the customisable maps be used for:
- Showing the probabilistic range of climate change at a given location.
- Assessing the evolution of changes through time.
- Visualising probabilistic projections for aggregated areas.
- Evaluating the joint probability of changes in more than one variable.
- Visualising the spatial distribution of projected climate change.
- Uncertainties
- Customisable maps are created from the CDF data which reflect the known uncertainties in the UKCP09 methodology.
- Multiple maps are needed to illustrate the uncertainty across the projections, for example, in groups of three to show the projected changes at 10%, 50% and 90% probability levels.
- Emissions uncertainty is explored through the use three different scenarios of future greenhouse gas emissions.
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- Last updated: Sunday, 11 March 2012