Why is hourly RCM data not available?

Although the regional climate models are run with a small timestep, confidence in data becomes increasingly less as the averaging period becomes less than one day. Hence the data has been made available as daily averages.

In detail

11 variants of the Met Office Hadley Centre RCM were run in order to downscale the UKCP09 projections. Daily averages of the model output have been made available as a by-product of UKCP09. The RCM output is available through the LINK website (see Find out more, below) but unlike the UKCP09 probabilistic climate projections, they can not be visualised or accessed through the UKCP09 User Interface.

Find out more

• 11-RCM output from the BADC LINK website