Climate Risk Indicators

An online tool with information on future changes to indicators of climate risk across the UK.
Climate Change Mitigation Advancing Net Zero

Problem Addressed

We are already seeing the effects of climate change on the UK. It is affecting people’s everyday lives, businesses, and nature. The UK Climate Resilience Programme investigates a range of different climate risks across different sectors to better understand the risk of climate change to the UK and to create outcomes and tools for decisions makers and researchers.

Solution overview

The Climate Risk Indicators by The UK Climate Resilience Programme, The University of Reading, and the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology is a website that provides information on future changes to indicators of climate risk across the UK. The information is provided at scales ranging from the district to the four nations of the UK, and for several different scenarios describing how global emissions might increase in the future.

Users can plot maps showing the variation in indicators across the UK and can plot and download current or future time series for specific locations. The indicators are grouped into categories of climate, temperature extremes, heating and cooling, transport and agriculture. It is also possible to select different settings such as emissions scenarios and regions. User can plot climate risk indicators based on variants for different seasons and metrics (for example days per year or % chance).

The research underpinning the data on the website was undertaken as part of the UK Climate Resilience Programme funded by UK Research and Innovation and the Met Office. It uses the UKCP18 climate projections produced by the Met Office.

The Climate Risk Indicators tool is free to use.

Company name

The UK Climate Resilience Programme, The University of Reading, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, The Institute for Environmental Analytics

UK availability

Yes

Date added

Jun, 2023

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