What parameters are varied in the Met Office ensemble?

A final list of parameters varied in the Met Office ensemble is not available. There is some information of what parameters have been varied in order to produce a smaller ensemble in other studies, using the same model.

In detail

Parameters that control the following types of process were varied:

• large scale cloud
• convection
• radiation
• sea ice
• boundary layer and surface processes
• dynamics

Find out more

• A list of parameters varied in studies have contributed towards UKCP09 is documented in the peer-reviewed journal papers of Barnett et al. (2006) (commentary in UKCIP Climate Digest) and Collins et al. (2006) (commentary in UKCIP Climate Digest).