Grid-to-Grid model estimates of river flow for Northern Ireland driven by UK Climate Projections 2018 (UKCP18) Regional (12km) data (1980 to 2080)

THIS DATASET HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED

This resource has been withdrawn due to the discovery of a minor error in one of the driving datasets (the PE). Although this has a minimal effect on the river flows, an update has been provided.

If you need access to the archived version, please contact the UK-SCAPE Programme Office

Supporting docs Cite this dataset

THIS DATASET HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED

This resource has been withdrawn due to the discovery of a minor error in one of the driving datasets (the PE). Although this has a minimal effect on the river flows, an update has been provided.

If you need access to the archived version, please contact the UK-SCAPE Programme Office

https://doi.org/10.5285/7079d6e8-6184-4f80-89b4-4db924ec8b05

Gridded hydrological model river flow estimates on a 1km grid over Northern Ireland for the period Dec 1980 - Nov 2080. The dataset includes monthly mean river flow, annual maxima of daily mean river flow (water years Oct - Sept), along with the date of occurrence, and annual minima of 7-day mean river flow (years spanning Dec-Nov), along with the date of occurrence (units: m3/s). The data are provided in gridded netCDF files.

There is one file for each variable and ensemble member. To aid interpretation, two additional spatial datasets are provided: a) digitally-derived catchment areas and b) estimated locations of flow gauging stations both on the 1km x 1km grid and c) a 1km x 1km grid identifying majority lake cells.

The data were produced as part of UK-SCAPE (UK Status, Change And Projections of the Environment, Work Package 2: Case Study - Water) a NERC-funded National Capability Science Single Centre award.

Publication date: 2021-08-27

Format

NetCDF

Spatial information

Study area

Spatial representation type

Raster

Spatial reference system

OSGB 1936 / British National Grid

Temporal information

Temporal extent

1980-12-01 to 2080-11-30

Provenance & quality

This dataset is a model output from the Grid-to-Grid hydrological model (Bell et al. 2009; https://doi.org10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.08.031) driven by meteorological data derived from the United Kingdom Climate Projections 2018 (UKCP18) Regional (12km) projections (Met Office Hadley Centre 2018, catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/589211abeb844070a95d061c8cc7f604). The projections comprise a 12-member perturbed parameter ensemble (PPE) of the Met Office Hadley Centre Regional Climate Model (RCM) under representative concentration pathway (RCP) scenario RCP8.5. The meteorological variables used were daily precipitation, daily min and max temperature, and daily PE derived from other meteorological variables (using the Penman-Monteith scheme). See Supporting Information for more details.

Licensing and constraints

THIS DATASET HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED

This resource has been withdrawn due to the discovery of a minor error in one of the driving datasets (the PE). Although this has a minimal effect on the river flows, an update has been provided.

If you need access to the archived version, please contact the UK-SCAPE Programme Office

This dataset is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence

Cite this dataset as:

Kay, A.L.; Rudd, A.C.; Davies, H.N.; Lane, R.A.; Bell, V.A. (2021). Grid-to-Grid model estimates of river flow for Northern Ireland driven by UK Climate Projections 2018 (UKCP18) Regional (12km) data (1980 to 2080). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/7079d6e8-6184-4f80-89b4-4db924ec8b05

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Supplemental information

UKSCAPE

Kay, A.L., Davies, H.N., Lane, R. A., Rudd, A.C., & Bell, V.A. (2021). Grid-based simulation of river flows in Northern Ireland: Model performance and future flow changes. In Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies (Vol. 38, p. 100967). Elsevier BV.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2021.100967