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Understanding past, present and future changes in the Earth system through measurements, theory and computational modelling.
Image: Detail from Undorf, Sabine; Tett, Simon FB; Hagg, Joseph; Metzger, Marc J; Wilson, Chris. (2019). A Decade of Weather – a serious game to understand cascading climate change impacts, [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of GeoSciences. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/2577.
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Atmospheric chemistry and aerosol modelling
Modeling the effects and impacts of short-lived speices (especially aeroosls and ozone and their precursors) using climate moddels in Edinburgh -
ClimateXChange
Impacts of climate change on Scotland -
Contemporary Climate
Research produced by members of the Atmospheric Chemistry & Climate of the Anthropocene research group. -
Effects of agri-environment schemes
Land use change effects -
Global Change Collection
Generic Collection for research in Global Change -
INSITE Data Initiative
data illuminating the role of man-made structures on the North Sea ecosystem -
JULES
Joint UK Land Environment Simulator
Recent Submissions
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Supporting material for "The effect of uncertainties in natural forcing records on simulated temperature during the last Millennium"
Data and code to reproduce the figures for: The effect of uncertainties in natural forcing records on simulated temperature during the last Millennium. Luecke et al., 2023. Please use the citation of the original journal ... -
10 member ensemble of HadCM3 simulations
Numerical climate output from the HadCM3 climate model simulation runs produced for the ERC funded TITAN project covering the time period 1780-2009 . These data were produced by Andrew Schurer, using the HadCM3 climate ... -
Particle filter HadCM3 simulation
Numerical climate output from the HadCM3 climate model simulation runs produced for the ERC funded TITAN project covering the time period 1780-2009 using a particle-filter data-assimilation approach. These data were produced ... -
FODEX: X-band SAR Investigation
TanDEM-X high resolution spotlight bistatic single-polarisation synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images acquired from the German Aerospace Agency (DLR) for the Tropical Forest Degradation Experiment (FODEX) project. Processed ... -
Topographic Response to Horizontal Advection in Normal Fault-Bound Mountain Ranges
This dataset relates to work presented in the article Hoskins A., Attal M., Mudd S., Castillo M., 'Topographic Response to Horizontal Advection in Normal Fault-Bound Mountain Ranges' (in submission). -
Edinburgh Castle cloud burst data
Data for paper entitled "The impact of an extreme cloud burst on Edinburgh Castle" by Simon F. B. Tett, YoungHwa Cha, Kate Donovan, Gina-Maria Geffers and Ed Hawkins. This includes seasonal maximum rainfall from the ... -
Global junction angle dataset
A global dataset of channel junction angles. File is a zipped csv file. Data is extracted using LSDTopoTools (https://github.com/LSDtopotools). The DEM underlying this data is NASA’s 30 m resolution void-filled ... -
Supporting information for: The longest baseline record of vegetation dynamics in Antarctica reveals acute sensitivity to water availability
Supplementary data tables and figures to: The longest baseline record of vegetation dynamics in Antarctica reveals acute sensitivity to water availability -
Ground Control Points (GCPs) for Mangrove and Nipa Palm Classification in the Niger Delta
GCPs were established by collecting GPS coordinates of 6 land cover types (Mangrove Forests, Nipa palm, Inland forests, Surface water, Built regions and Agricultural land) over the Niger Delta. GCPs were collected over the ... -
Plot level Aboveground biomass on Mangrove Forests in the Niger Delta
This dataset includes twenty-five 0.25 ha plots of Aboveground biomass (AGB) calculated using diameter at breast height measurements (DBH) and allometric equations published by Komiyama et al, 2005. -
The influence of vegetation cover on the grain-size distributions and thicknesses of two Icelandic tephra layers
This dataset accompanies the paper of the same title. Grain-size distributions and thicknesses of tephra layers are used to reconstruct characteristics, dynamics and hazards of explosive volcanic eruptions, but the extent ... -
Baseline record of vegetation dynamics at Cape Hallett, Antarctica
# Plot data Mc Nemar: To enable comparisons with the 1961 and 2004 survey results, the Lambert Conformal Conic projection from the 2004 survey was used to precisely georeference and trim the RGB image across a 1-m2 grid, ... -
Risks to carbon storage from land-use change revealed by peat thickness maps of Peru
Tropical peatlands are among the most carbon dense ecosystems but land-use change has led to the loss of large peatland areas, associated with substantial greenhouse gas emissions. In order to design effective conservation ... -
Forest Canopy Nitrogen Uptake experiments data
Data supporting FOREST CANOPY NITROGEN UPTAKE CAN SUPPLY ENTIRE FOLIAR DEMAND (Ferarretto et al. 2022, Functional Ecology) Contact person: Richard K F Nair, rnair@bgc-jena.mpg.de These datasets contain ecohydrology N ... -
HadCM3 model data used in the article "Seasonal long-term trends during the last Millennium strongly influenced by orbital forcing" by Lucie Luecke, Andrew Schurer, Rob Wilson and Gabriele Hegerl
HadCM3 model simulation including orbital forcing only from 12/850 to 11/1850. The dataset is divided into atmosphere monthly mean and ocean monthly mean files. All files are in netcdf format. Abstract: Orbital forcing ... -
Supporting material for "Orbital forcing strongly influences seasonal temperature trends during the last millennium"
Abstract: Insolation changes caused by the axial precession induce millennial trends in last millennium temperature, varying with season and latitude. A characteristic seasonal trend pattern can be detected in both insolation ... -
Terrestrial LiDAR of southern African woodland vegetation, Bicuar National Park (Angola), Mtarure Forest Reserve (Tanzania)
Terrestrial LiDAR point clouds and hemispherical photographs from 1 ha plots in southern African woodlands. 15 plots in Bicuar National Park, Angola, and 7 plots in Mtarure Forest Reserve, Tanzania. Scans were located to ... -
Data supporting "Ultraviolet radiation drives emission of climate-relevant gases from marine phytoplankton"
This dataset comprises results contained in a manuscript entitled "Ultraviolet radiation drives emission of climate-relevant gases from marine phytoplankton" that describes an investigation of the production of carbon ... -
Variations in tephra stratigraphy created by small-scale surface features in sub-polar landscapes - Dataset from paper
This is the dataset used is the Thompson et al paper ‘Variations in tephra stratigraphy created by small-scale surface features in sub-polar landscapes’ The data is separated into the relevant folders, with grain size ... -
Structural diversity and tree density drives variation in the biodiversity-ecosystem function relationship of woodlands and savannas
Positive biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships (BEFRs) have been widely documented, but it is unclear if BEFRs should be expected in disturbance-driven systems. Disturbance may limit competition and niche ...
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