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Lookup NU author(s): Professor Chris Kilsby, Dr Vassilis Glenis, John Richmond
This is the final published version of an authored book that has been published in its final definitive form by UK Climate Impacts Programme, 2009.
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UK Climate Projections (UKCP09) uses a Weather Generator tool to create synthetic time series of weather variables at 5 km resolution, which are consistent with the underlying climate projections. In this report we introduce the UKCP09 Weather Generator (WG). Section 1 outlines the needs and principles, while Section 2 addresses how it can be used to assess changes in extremes at spatial and temporal scales finer than the UKCP09 probability distribution functions (PDFs) can provide. Section 3 provides an illustration that the way the WG is perturbed to account for future climate change works. Section 4 provides some illustrative maps of changes in extremes across the UK and also of some key extreme metrics at some selected locations.
Author(s): Jones PD, Kilsby CG, Harpham C, Glenis V, Burton A
Publication type: Authored Book
Publication status: Published
Series Title: UK Climate Projections science report
Year: 2009
Number of Volumes: 1
Number of Pages: 45
Print publication date: 01/06/2009
Publisher: UK Climate Impacts Programme
Place Published: London, UK
URL: http://ukclimateprojections.metoffice.gov.uk/22530
Notes: Revised version published November 2010
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9781906360061
