Are different land surfaces included in the climate model? Are the projections at sea level or are local topographical effects taken into account? Are the other climate models that are incorporated in the UKCP09 probabilistic climate projections weighted? Are the UKCIP02 scaling factors still correct and how does one produce scaling factors with UKCP09? Do the projections include global dimming? Do the projections include intense convective rainfall such as occurs in thunderstorms? Do the UKCP09 projections include the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect? Does downscaling increase uncertainties? Does UKCP09 reflect sea level rise within the IPCC AR4 ranges? Does UKCP09 provide any information beyond 2100? Does UKCP09 consider changes to the Gulf Stream (Meridional Overturing Circulation)? Have the results from Climateprediction.net been incorporated into UKCP09? How are the estimates of land movement used in the relative sea level projections derived? How are the UKCP09 results validated? How are the models used in UKCP09 weighted, and how sensitive are the projections to this weighting? How can I deal with changes in the UK climate since the 1961–1990 baseline period? How do the projections in UKCP09 compare with those in UKCIP02? How do the storm projections for UKCIP02 and UKCP09 compare? Does UKCP09 show an increase in the frequency, intensity and severity of storms? How do I load the observed trends gridded data into ArcGIS? How does the Met Office Hadley Centre model compare with other models? How does UKCP09 model sea level rise? How have Cooling Degree Days (CDD) and Heating Degree Days (HDD) been calculated in UKCP09? How is model bias dealt with in UKCP09? How will climate change affect future flood risk? Is the modelling behind UKCP09 sound? What are the sources of uncertainty considered in UKCP09? What are the sources of uncertainty in the Marine & coastal projections? What atmospheric processes and feedbacks are included in the UKCP09 modelling? What do we mean by probability in the probabilistic climate projections? What does the frequency distribution associated with the sea level projections actually mean? What climate variables have been processed in each batch? What is clipping and why has it been done? What are the implications for use? What is the High++ scenario? What is the baseline period used for UKCP09? What methodology was used to generate Potential Evapotranspiration in the 11-member RCM? What observed climate variables are used for weighting variants of the Met Office Hadley Centre models used in UKCP09? What other climate models are incorporated in the UKCP09 probabilistic projections? What parameters are varied in the Met Office Hadley Centre ensemble? What uncertainties exist with the sea level rise and storm surge projections? What variables are available from the different UKCP09 terrestrial data sources? What variables are available from the 11-member RCM output accessed at the LINK website? Where can I find information on the coordinates and IDs of the grids? Why are probabilistic projections of wind speed in a separate batch and what are the limitations of this? Why are projections of local changes more uncertain than projections of global changes? Why are there such big differences in projections between different climate models? Why aren't only those models that best represent the historical climate used? Why bother using climate projections when we know they are not perfect? Why is the baseline period for the sea level rise projections different from the UKCP09 1961–1990 baseline? And can I translate the sea level baseline period to the UKCP09 1961–1990 baseline period? Why are the storm surge, sea level waves and multi-level ocean projections not probabilistic? Why was the IPCC AR2 emissions scenario not used as the UKCP09 High emissions scenario? Why can't I aggregate two grid cells together with the probabilistic data? Will the PDFs incorporate the effect of natural multi-decadal variability as well as climate change?
