A large set of potential past, present and future hydro-meteorological time series for the UK ...

• Main Authors: Guillod, Benoît, Jones, Richard G., Dadson, Simon J., Coxon, Gemma, Bussi, Gianbattista, Freer, James, Kay, Alison L., Massey, Neil R., Sparrow, Sarah N., Wallom, David C. H., Allen, Myles R., Hall, Jim W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: ETH Zurich 2018
• Subjects: Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000239029; http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/239029

Hydro-meteorological extremes such as drought and heavy precipitation can have large impacts on society and the economy. With potentially increasing risks associated with such events due to climate change, properly assessing the associated impacts and uncertainties is critical for adequate adaptation. However, the application of risk-based approaches often requires large sets of extreme events, which are not commonly available. Here, we present such a large set of hydro-meteorological time series for recent past and future conditions for the United Kingdom based on weather@home 2, a modelling framework consisting of a global climate model (GCM) driven by observed or projected sea surface temperature (SST) and sea ice which is downscaled to 25 km over the European domain by a regional climate model (RCM). Sets of 100 time series are generated for each of (i) a historical baseline (1900–2006), (ii) five near-future scenarios (2020–2049) and (iii) five far-future scenarios (2070–2099). The five scenarios in ... : Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 22 (1) ...