UK Climate Projections (UKCP)

The UK Climate Projections (UKCP) provides the most up-to-date assessment of how the climate of the UK may change over the 21st century. Find information to help with your climate change risk assessments and adaptation plans.

The UK Climate Projections (UKCP) is a climate analysis tool that forms part of the Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Programme which is supported by the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

Project overview

For an overview of the project, you may find the following material useful:

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What do you want to do?

If you're new to climate projections or have not used them for some time, then read on.

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Key results

Explore key messages and results in the form of maps and graphs from UKCP18.

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Guidance and Science Reports

List of supporting documents to guide you through the UKCP18 projections as well as the science reports that underpin them.

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Download UKCP18 data

You can find information on what UKCP18 data are available, key facts about them and where and how to download them on this page.

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Underpinning Science

There are five distinct sets of climate data that comprise the projections. These are described in more detail covering what has been generated, how it has been done and how it might be useful to your applications.

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Applied Products

We know that many users and decision makers want to know about the climate impacts related to these projections, such as future flood risk or heat stress - this is out of scope for the UKCP18 project.

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