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Working with our stakeholders, we have put together a number of case studies to show how UKCP09 data can be used. These will come online as and when completed. 

 
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Completed
Organisation Case study focus
Atkins/UKWIR
Using the UKCP09 Weather Generator in sewerage modelling
Products: Climate change projections report, Weather Generator report, Weather Generator output
CEH
National assessment of river flows using UKCP09
Product: 11-member RCM
Environment Agency/Acclimatise
Climate change and pollution at two water courses in Birmingham
Products: Key findings, Cumulative Distribution Functions (Graph), Weather Generator outputs, Threshold Detector, Briefing report, Climate change projections report, Weather Generator report
Environment Agency/CEH   Strategic planning for  flood management using UKCP09
Products: 11-member RCM
Environment Agency/JBA Consulting   Using the UKCP09 projections to estimatechanges in flood damages at a catchment scale
Products: Sampled model output
Environment Agency/University of Reading Using the UKCP09 projections to estimate changes in the flow duration curve
Products: Sampled model output
Devon County Council Preparing a briefing paper
Products: Probabilistic projections, storm surge, sea level rise
Hampshire County Council Using UKCP09 in emergency planning
Products: Weather Generator, Threshold Detector
Kent County Council Visualising UKCP09 data
Products: GIS shapefiles, probabilistic projections
Macaulay Institute
Defining land capability for agriculture specifications in Scotland
Products: 11-member RCM, Weather Generator, probabilistic projections
Milton Keynes Council & United Sustainable Energy Agency Assessing potential vulnerabilities to climate change
Products: Probabilistic projections, Weather Generator, Threshold Detector
Oxford City Council
Preparing a webpage of climate information
Product: Probabilistic projections
PROCLIMATION
The use of probabilistic climate scenarios in building environmental performance simulation
Product: Weather Generator outputs, Observed climate data sets
PROMETHEUS
Using probabilistic climate data to future proof design decisions in the buildings sector
Product: Weather Generator outputs, Threshold Detector, Observed trends report, Briefing report, Climate change projections report, Weather Generator report, Maps & graphs, Observed climate data sets, Sampled model output
Royal Haskoning Investigating coastal recession & shore profile development
Products: Storm surge, sea level rise
Severn Trent Water Using UKCP09 joint probability plots for climate change risk assessment
Products: Probabilistic projections
South West Tourism
Assessing impacts of climate change on tourism in South West England
Products: Probabilistic projections, Weather Generator, Threshold Detector
University of Manchester
Using UKCP09 in a study assessing climate change impacts and adaptation in an urban area
Products: Weather Generator, Threshold Detector, Weather Generator output, Observed climate data sets
 

Online learning resources

To support your application of the case studies to your own work, it is important to understand how the outputs were created and how they can be interpreted. The UKCIP online learning resources website houses a range of guides and exercises that have been developed to support your use of UKCP09. The resources include:

  • Using the UKCP09 User Interface
  • Short, interactive walkthrough animations of the key features of the User Interface and how to produce outputs (Maps, CDFs, Plume plots).
  • Simple guided exercises on how to produce and interpret UKCP09 outputs (Maps, CDFs, Plume plots, PDFs, Joint probability plots).
  • Understanding UKCP09 and the User Interface
  • Short, interactive animated activities explaining some of fundamental concepts underpinning UKCP09 including the role of uncertainty and probabilistic data.
  • Recorded webinar detailing the broad developments of UKCP09 and how it can be applied.
  • Range of audio and video Podcasts describing in greater detail, the developments of UKCP09 and how to build a request in the User Interface.
  • Range of presentation slides showing examples of how users have used UKCP09 in their work and considerations about its use.
  • Online UKCP09 user community
  • Online discussion forums providing users with an opportunity to discuss how to understand and apply UKCP09.
  • Specific forums established to support the marine projections, weather generator and users in Scotland.

Access to the resources is free but does require you to register separately from UKCP09:

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For other training opportunities, go to the UKCIP main website.

 

Last Updated Wednesday, 17 August 2011