RAPID - Understanding uncertainty in simulations of THC-related rapid climate change

General Info

Title:	RAPID - Understanding uncertainty in simulations of THC-related rapid climate change
Type:	Data Entity
Sub-Type:	Simulation
Abbreviation:	rapid_thcmip
Publication State:	published
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URI:	http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/badc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__dataent_12374693465527132

Summary
A brief description of the data.

Data from "The Understanding uncertainty in simulations of THC-related rapid climate change project". This was a NERC RAPID Climate Change Research Programme project (Round 2 - NE/C509366/1 - Duration 20 Jun 2005 - 19 Apr 2011) led by Prof Jonathan Gregory of the University of Reading. Access to this dataset was initially restricted to participants only.

Content
The actual data being described by this document. NB, in the case of data granules, this content may just be a reference to an ingested CSML or CDML file.

Introduction

The Rapid Climate Change (RAPID) Research Programme is a Directed Mode programme of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). The programme aims at improving our ability to quantify the probability and magnitude of future rapid change in climate, with a primary focus on the role of the Atlantic Ocean Thermohaline Circulation. The initial six-year programme started in 2001 and will end in 2007. A second round of projects have subsequently also been funded, as well as several joint projects with Dutch and Norwegian research organisations. There are now a total of 35 projects supported by RAPID. Data from 22 RAPID Projects are to be stored at the BADC.

The main tools that are used for making projections of climate change in the coming century resulting from greenhouse-gas and other emissions are detailed coupled three-dimensional models of the atmosphere and ocean. However, such models give widely different results for some important aspects of climate change, thus limiting our ability to make practically useful projections. One such aspect is changes that may happen in the Atlantic Ocean thermohaline circulation, often referred to as the Gulf Stream. This circulation transports a great deal of heat northwards. If it weakened, future warming in Europe in particular could be reduced or possibly reversed. The spread of model results basically reflects limitations in current understanding of how the large-scale climate system operates. The aim of this project is to identify which are the most important aspects of that uncertainty by making comparisons of the responses simulated by a range of climate models. The results are intended to help improve the models by focusing attention on the aspects which require further theoretical or observational study. The models used include hadcm3, famous, chime, forte and frugal.

Project Duration: 20 Jun 2005 - 19 Apr 2011

This project is funded by NERC - Grant Ref. NE/C509366/1 - through the RAPID Climate Change NERC directed mode programme.

Access to the archive is currently restricted to participants to this particular project.

Restricted Data Access

Data and software supplied from this project to the BADC will be stored in the BADC RAPID archive.

Access to the archive is currently restricted to participants to this particular project. If you are a programme participant and would like to access this RAPID project data, then please apply for access^* to the RAPID data.

You will be requested to abide by the RAPID Climate Change Data Policy.
Data management, availability and use are ruled by the RAPID Climate Change Programme Data Management Plan (PDF document).
Access to Hadley Centre model data held at the BADC is subject to the signature of the NERC-Met Office agreement.

^* Note that to apply for access to this dataset, you should first register as a BADC user (anyone is allowed to register). If you are already a registered BADC user, skip this step. If you have forgotten your BADC user ID and/or password, please contact the BADC helpdesk at badc@rl.ac.uk. To register as a new BADC user, please follow the instructions online.

Data availability and file format

Data are provided in the recommended CF-NetCDF format.

Documentation and Links to further information and references

Documents:

RAPID Climate Change Programme Science Plan
RAPID Climate Change Programme Data Management Plan.
RAPID Climate Change Programme Data Policy – RAPID Conditions of Use.
RAPID Climate Change Brochure (~4.6MB) published by NERC in July 2008.
List of 21 RAPID projects for which data will be stored at BADC.
RAPID Models — a review of models and model runs that will be used or produced by RAPID projects (last updated July 2008).

Websites:

Project website at CGAM- http://www.cgam.nerc.ac.uk/rapidthcmip/
The RAPID funded proposal submitted by Jonathan Gregory and Remi Tailleux.
The RAPID home page at Southampton
The RAPID Data Centre page at BODC

References:
A list of references are available from the Project website and also in the RAPID funded proposal cited above.

Mailing Lists:
To support the user community, a number of mailing lists are maintained by the BADC. These are the RAPID-general, RAPID-modelling and RAPID-8.2kyr mailing lists. To subscribe, please send an email with a brief outline your project details to RAPID-general-owner@ncas.ac.uk.

Citation

et. al

Date of citation

Who to contact

This RAPID project is led by Prof Jonathan Gregory of the University of Reading.

The main contacts for scientific queries concerning RAPID are Dr Meric Srokosz and Dr Val Byfield.

The NERC RAPID Programme Administrator is Sasha Leigh

General queries about these pages or browsing the data should be directed to the BADC support line.

Lineage
Summary of the origins of the dataset, e.g.: "Dataset produced from NASA MODIS instrument on Terra and collected at the University of York's groundstation 1999-2003 and a copy provided to NEODC in June 2007".

Data provided by contributing modelling centres (inc. NOC, MOHC).

Quality Statement
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Not known.

Author
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Name	email
Jonathan Gregory, PI, University of Reading

Contributors
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Name	email
Adam Blaker
Alex Megann

Online References
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Relation	Title
Documentation	THCMIP Project website at CGAM
Documentation	RAPID Homepage
Download	RAPID THCMIP Data Directory
Apply for access	Apply for access to RAPID THCMIP
Logo	RAPID Logo

Parent Data Entity
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No data specified at present

Sub Data Entities
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None

Associated Deployments

Parameters - summary

air_pressure	air_pressure_at_sea_level	air_temperature	atmosphere_horizontal_streamfunction
atmosphere_hybrid_sigma_pressure_coordinate	barotropic_eastward_sea_water_velocity	barotropic_northward_sea_water_velocity	barotropic_sea_water_x_velocity
barotropic_sea_water_y_velocity	cell_area	cell_thickness	cloud_area_fraction
convective_cloud_area_fraction	convective_rainfall_flux	depth	divergence_of_wind
downward_heat_flux_in_sea_ice	eastward_sea_water_velocity	eastward_wind	ertel_potential_vorticity
geopotential_height	height	lagrangian_tendency_of_air_pressure	lwe_thickness_of_soil_moisture_content
model_level_number	northward_ocean_freshwater_transport	northward_ocean_heat_transport	northward_sea_water_velocity
northward_wind	ocean_heat_x_transport	ocean_heat_y_transport	ocean_meridional_overturning_streamfunction
ocean_mixed_layer_thickness	ocean_montgomery_potential	ocean_salt_x_transport	ocean_salt_y_transport
precipitation_flux	region	runoff_flux	sea_ice_area_fraction
sea_ice_thickness	sea_surface_height_above_geoid	sea_water_density	sea_water_potential_density
sea_water_potential_temperature	sea_water_pressure	sea_water_pressure_at_sea_floor	sea_water_salinity
sea_water_x_velocity	sea_water_y_velocity	snowfall_flux	soil_temperature
specific_humidity	specific_kinetic_energy_of_sea_water	speed_of_sound_in_sea_water	subsurface_runoff_amount
surface_air_pressure	surface_albedo	surface_downward_eastward_stress	surface_downward_heat_flux_in_sea_water
surface_downward_northward_stress	surface_downward_sensible_heat_flux	surface_downward_x_stress	surface_downward_y_stress
surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air	surface_net_downward_shortwave_flux	surface_runoff_amount	surface_snow_amount
surface_snow_and_ice_melt_heat_flux	surface_snow_and_ice_sublimation_flux	surface_snow_melt_flux	surface_snow_thickness
surface_specific_humidity	surface_temperature	surface_upward_sensible_heat_flux	surface_upward_water_vapor_flux_in_air
surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air	tendency_of_sea_ice_thickness_due_to_dynamics	tendency_of_sea_ice_thickness_due_to_thermodynamics	tendency_of_sea_water_salinity
tendency_of_sea_water_salinity_due_to_advection	tendency_of_sea_water_salinity_due_to_bolus_advection	tendency_of_sea_water_salinity_due_to_horizontal_mixing	tendency_of_sea_water_salinity_due_to_vertical_mixing
tendency_of_sea_water_temperature	tendency_of_sea_water_temperature_due_to_advection	tendency_of_sea_water_temperature_due_to_bolus_advection	tendency_of_sea_water_temperature_due_to_horizontal_mixing
tendency_of_sea_water_temperature_due_to_vertical_mixing	toa_incoming_shortwave_flux	toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux	upward_sea_ice_basal_heat_flux
upward_sea_water_velocity	virtual_salt_flux_into_sea_water	water_evaporation_flux	water_flux_into_sea_water_due_to_sea_ice_thermodynamics
water_flux_into_sea_water_from_rivers_and_surface_downward_water_flux

Parameters - details
Parameters to describe the data - with vocab URL and term IDs for further classification. Note, three parameters can be added at once; after these are added a further three may be specified - and so on.

Label	Vocab Term URL	Vocab Term ID
air_pressure	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0015
air_pressure_at_sea_level	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0022
air_temperature	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0023
atmosphere_horizontal_streamfunction	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0752
atmosphere_hybrid_sigma_pressure_coordinate	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0755
barotropic_eastward_sea_water_velocity	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0730
barotropic_northward_sea_water_velocity	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0731
barotropic_sea_water_x_velocity	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CF12N188
barotropic_sea_water_y_velocity	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CF12N189
cell_area	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFV10N9
cell_thickness	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CF12N190
cloud_area_fraction	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0745
convective_cloud_area_fraction	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0707
convective_rainfall_flux	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0716
depth	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0721
divergence_of_wind	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0684
downward_heat_flux_in_sea_ice	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0691
eastward_sea_water_velocity	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0650
eastward_wind	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0653
ertel_potential_vorticity	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0620
geopotential_height	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0628
height	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0638
lagrangian_tendency_of_air_pressure	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0616
lwe_thickness_of_soil_moisture_content	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0571
model_level_number	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0549
northward_ocean_freshwater_transport	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0507
northward_ocean_heat_transport	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0483
northward_sea_water_velocity	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0494
northward_wind	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0461
ocean_heat_x_transport	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CF12N540
ocean_heat_y_transport	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CF12N543
ocean_meridional_overturning_streamfunction	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0466
ocean_mixed_layer_thickness	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0467
ocean_montgomery_potential	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CF12N558
ocean_salt_x_transport	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CF12N559
ocean_salt_y_transport	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CF12N560
precipitation_flux	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0453
region	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0412
runoff_flux	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0416
sea_ice_area_fraction	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0424
sea_ice_thickness	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0369
sea_surface_height_above_geoid	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0374
sea_water_density	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0393
sea_water_potential_density	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0395
sea_water_potential_temperature	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0329
sea_water_pressure	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0330
sea_water_pressure_at_sea_floor	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CF12N583
sea_water_salinity	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0331
sea_water_x_velocity	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0336
sea_water_y_velocity	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0337
snowfall_flux	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0344
soil_temperature	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0354
specific_humidity	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0313
specific_kinetic_energy_of_sea_water	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFV8N79
speed_of_sound_in_sea_water	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0316
subsurface_runoff_amount	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0325
surface_air_pressure	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0327
surface_albedo	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0328
surface_downward_eastward_stress	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0296
surface_downward_heat_flux_in_sea_water	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0298
surface_downward_northward_stress	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0300
surface_downward_sensible_heat_flux	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0301
surface_downward_x_stress	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0303
surface_downward_y_stress	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0304
surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0275
surface_net_downward_shortwave_flux	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0237
surface_runoff_amount	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0248
surface_snow_amount	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0250
surface_snow_and_ice_melt_heat_flux	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFV8N80
surface_snow_and_ice_sublimation_flux	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFV8N81
surface_snow_melt_flux	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0254
surface_snow_thickness	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0222
surface_specific_humidity	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0224
surface_temperature	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0225
surface_upward_sensible_heat_flux	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0232
surface_upward_water_vapor_flux_in_air	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFV8N82
surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0216
tendency_of_sea_ice_thickness_due_to_dynamics	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFV8N120
tendency_of_sea_ice_thickness_due_to_thermodynamics	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0151
tendency_of_sea_water_salinity	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CF12N787
tendency_of_sea_water_salinity_due_to_advection	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFV8N121
tendency_of_sea_water_salinity_due_to_bolus_advection	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFV8N122
tendency_of_sea_water_salinity_due_to_horizontal_mixing	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFV8N123
tendency_of_sea_water_salinity_due_to_vertical_mixing	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFV8N125
tendency_of_sea_water_temperature	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CF12N788
tendency_of_sea_water_temperature_due_to_advection	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFV8N126
tendency_of_sea_water_temperature_due_to_bolus_advection	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFV8N127
tendency_of_sea_water_temperature_due_to_horizontal_mixing	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFV8N128
tendency_of_sea_water_temperature_due_to_vertical_mixing	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFV8N129
toa_incoming_shortwave_flux	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0119
toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0092
upward_sea_ice_basal_heat_flux	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0079
upward_sea_water_velocity	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0080
virtual_salt_flux_into_sea_water	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFV10N47
water_evaporation_flux	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CFSN0050
water_flux_into_sea_water_due_to_sea_ice_thermodynamics	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CF12N802
water_flux_into_sea_water_from_rivers_and_surface_downward_water_flux	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P071/16	CF12N804

Data Coverage
Summary of the temporal and spatial data coverage for the data.

Spatial coverage
Max Y: 90
Min X: -180	Max X 180
Min Y -90

Temporal coverage
No temporal information available.

Spatial resolution

Various

Vertical extent

Various

Responsible Parties
Parties responsible for the metadata - e.g. data curator. Responsible parties can have a role specified to make their function clearer. Multiple responsible parties can be specified.

Role	Name	URI
Data Curator	badc.nerc.ac.uk	http://badc.nerc.ac.uk

Other Info
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Dataset language

English

Update frequency

notPlanned

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