What variables are available from the 11-member RCM output accessed through the LINK website?

The LINK website contains output from the 11-member HadRM3 regional climate model ensemble (i.e. 11 sets of results) that was undertaken for the downscaling of the UKCP09 projections. These projections are available on a daily timescale at a resolution of 25 km. For more information see summary table of data sources

In detail

Outputs from the 11-member is made available free of charge through the LINK website. However, it will not be in a user-friendly format such as the information available through the UKCP09 User Interface. It includes the following variables:

• pstar after timestep
• specific humidity after timestep
• snow amount after timestep kg/m2
• surface temperature after timestep
• boundary layer depth after timestep
• net down surface sw flux: sw ts only
• incoming sw rad flux (toa): all tss
• outgoing sw rad flux (toa)
• clear-sky (ii) upward sw flux (toa)
• clear-sky (ii) down surface sw flux
• clear-sky (ii) up surface sw flux
• total downward surface sw flux
• net down surface lw rad flux
• total cloud amount in lw radiation
• outgoing lw rad flux (toa)
• clear-sky (ii) upward lw flux (toa)
• downward lw rad flux: surface
• clear-sky (ii) down surface lw flux
• ht flux from surf to deep soil lev 1
• surface & b.layer heat fluxes w/m2
• x-comp of surf & bl wind stress n/m2
• y-comp of surf & bl wind stress n/m2
• surface & bl total moisture flux kg/m2/s
• wind mixing en'gy flux into sea w/m2
• 10 m wind u-comp
• 10 m wind v-comp
• surface sh flux from sea (gbm) w/m2
• surface latent heat flux w/m2
• temperature at 1.5 m
• specific humidity at 1.5 m
• relative humidity at 1.5 m
• 10 metre wind speed m/s
• canopy conductance m/s
• potential evaporation rate kg/m2/s
• panofsky peak gust (m/s)
• potential evapotranspiration factor1
• potential evapotranspiration factor2
• large scale rainfall rate kg/m2/s
• large scale snowfall rate kg/m2/s
• convective rainfall rate kg/m2/s
• convective snowfall rate kg/m2/s
• total snowfall rate: ls+conv kg/m2/s
• total precipitation rate kg/m2/s
• soil moisture content
• canopy water content
• soil moisture content in a layer
• u component of wind on pressure levels
• v component of wind on pressure levels
• t on pressure levs u grid. use macro
• omega on press levs u grid.use macro
• specif hum;p levs;u grid. use macro
• geopotential height: pressure levels
• temperature on pressure levels
• relative humidity on pressure levels
• pressure at mean sea level

Find out more

• 11-member RCM data on the BADC LINK website