HydrOlogical cYcle Understanding vIa Process-bAsed GlObal Detection, Attribution and prediction (Horyuji PAGODA)
Lead Research Organisation:
University of East Anglia
Department Name: Environmental Sciences
Abstract
See lead document
Organisations
Publications
Hegerl G
(2013)
Causes of Robust Seasonal Land Precipitation Changes*
in Journal of Climate
Hegerl G
(2015)
Challenges in Quantifying Changes in the Global Water Cycle
in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
| Description | The UEA component of this project focussed on updating and improving the precipitation component of the widely-used CRU TS land climate dataset. A new version has been produced (CRU TS 3.20) was more extensive observations from South America, Africa and more generally for the last decade. This additional data provides better coverage in some poorly observed locations and times, and supports more reliable analysis of changes in precipitation. |
| Exploitation Route | Monitoring climate variability. The CRU TS climate dataset is widely used for the analysis of climate variability and for studying the link between climate variability and other components of the human-Earth system, such as hydrology, vegetation, agriculture etc. It can be used for empirical analysis, or as the input to process-based models of the land surface, such as water resource models or crop yield models. |
| Sectors | Environment |
| Title | CRU TS3.10 |
| Description | An update to the widely-used Climatic Research Unit high-resolution land climate dataset. This provides monthly gridded fields of temperature, precipitation, vapour pressure and cloud cover, interpolated from observations to a regular grid with resolution 0.5 degrees of latitude and longitude. This update provides data from 1901 to 2009, and is available from the British Atmospheric Data Centre. Citable as: University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit; Jones, P.D.; Harris, I.C. (2013): CRU TS3.10: Climatic Research Unit (CRU) Time-Series (TS) Version 3.10 of High Resolution Gridded Data of Month-by-month Variation in Climate (Jan. 1901 - Dec. 2009). NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre, date of citation. http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/ac3e6be017970639a9278e64d3fd5508 |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2011 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | n/a |
| URL | http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/ac3e6be017970639a9278e64d3fd5508 |