Met Office UK Marine Observations

Data from the UK Earth System Model (UKESM1) ARISE-SAI experiment. The UKESM1 ARISE-SAI experiment explores the impacts of geoengineering via the injection of sulphur dioxide (SO2) into the stratosphere in order to keep global mean surface air temperature near 1.5 C above the pre-industrial climate. Data includes a five member ensemble of simulations with SO2 injection plus a five member ensemble of SSP2-4.5 simulations from CMIP6 to serve as a reference data set

The Northwest European continental shelf physical ocean model predicts temperature, salinity and circulation for waters surrounding the UK. Ocean physics analysis provides a 6-day forecast for the North-West European Atlantic shelf at 1.5km resolution: 33 depth levels Currents Salinity Temperature Mixing Layer Thickness

The Global Ocean component of the Met Office Global Coupled Atmosphere-Land-Ocean-Ice system which has been running in operations since May 2022. The system provides a global physical analysis and coupled forecast products providing 3D daily mean fields of temperature and salinity, zonal and meridional velocities; 2D daily mean fields of sea surface height, bottom temperature, mixed layer depth, sea ice fraction, sea ice thickness and sea ice zonal and meridional velocities; and instantaneous hourly fields for sea surface height, sea surface temperature and surface currents. The Met Office Global Coupled Atmosphere-Land-Ocean-Ice system is comprised of both deterministic and ensemble forecasting systems both of which are coupled to an interactive ocean. Ocean and ice analysis and forecast products are currently generated from the deterministic system once a day with forecast with lead time out to 7 days, interpolated onto a regular latitude-longitude grid products by our Global Ma[...]

Northwest European continental shelf regional wave model predicting sea-state and various sea and swell wave characteristics for waters surrounding the UK. The Met Office runs global and regional wave forecast models to support marine safety and operational decision making. Met Office configurations are developed to be run using the community wave model WAVEWATCH IIITM. The global wave configuration is designed to generate accurate forecasts for open waters of the world's oceans and larger seas, whilst regional configurations are run in order to improve accuracy closer to the coast. The Met Office wave models are forced using wind data from the Met Office Global Atmospheric Hi-Res Model and, where appropriate in regional configurations, currents from the Met Office shelf seas model. Met Office NWS Wave (UK wave) Model 6 day forecast to provide an outlook for wave characteristics defining height, period and direction of waves within a given sea-state. The model uses a refined gri[...]