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The UK Climate Projections 2018 (UKCP18) project outputs will have a phased release, with the core raw data products coming out in May 2018 followed by a launch of the full UKCP18 data interface and support products in November 2018. Releasing the core set of UKCP18 data in May 2018 will allow academics and other researchers to use it to support the next Climate Change Risk Assessment. Following feedback from the Peer Review Panel this will now include a new downscaled product at 12km resolution. The November launch will provide a package of products designed to meet the needs of a wide range of users and will complement the data released in May to provide up-to-date information on how the climate of the UK may change over the rest of the century. In addition, the cutting edge high resolution (2.2km) projections, which are intended to provide information on high impact events such as localised heavy rainfall in summer, will be delivered in a similar timescale as the November launch. If you have any queries, please email the UKCP18 mailbox at ukcproject@metoffice.gov.uk.
A new UN report says that concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere surged in 2016 to the highest level in 800,000 years. Globally averaged concentrations of CO2 reached 403.3 parts per million in 2016, up from 400.0 ppm in 2015 because of a combination of human activities and a strong El Niño event. Concentrations of CO2 are now 145% of pre-industrial (before 1750) levels, according to the Greenhouse Gas Bulletin.