Process Title:

Data: Future extreme sea levels around the UK coastline using standard method, 2020-2100

Abstract:

Generates a subset of data for projected extreme sea levels at approximately 2km spacing around the UK coastline, including England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Isle of Man. The data are available as a zip file containing shapefile data (.shp, .shx, .dbf, and .prj files). One shapefile per projected future year and scenario combination.

User Guide:

For guidance on the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP) and how to interpret the plots, please see the guidance pages.

The data are projected extreme sea levels at approximately 2km spacing around the UK coastline, including England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Isle of Man. The data were produced by the Met Office, using estimates of present-day extreme sea levels at all open-coast Coastal Flood Boundary point locations, provided by the Environment Agency and projections of 21st Century time-mean sea level change prepared at the Met Office.

Projected extreme sea level values are described for 16 different annual probabilities of exceedance (return levels), ranging from 1:1 to 1:10,000, identified in the shapefile as 't1' to 't10000'. Confidence levels relating to the 5% and 95% lower and upper bounds of confidence are included, identified in the shapefile with the prefix 'c1_' and 'c3_' respectively, as well as the 70% confidence level identified in the shapefile with the prefix 'c2_'

The data were produced to put the projected future mean sea level change in the context of the present-day extremes. The data were produced by combining the best estimates of present-day extreme sea levels with projections of mean sea level change. The data covers the period from 2020 to 2100 and is available for each decade (i.e., 2020, 2030... 2100).

Warning:

Before using this product, please read the UKCP18 Guidance on Caveats and Limitations as well as the conditions of us under the Open Government Licence.

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Is process cachable?:

False

All WPS outputs are currently returned in:

Bespoke XML structure within ProcessSpecificContent (inside Execute Response document).

Process Description XML:

Call the DescribeProcess method for this process.