CCAM-UCLEM output for: Climate change impact on energy demand in coupled building-urban-atmosphere simulations across the 21st century v1.0

This data is single column model output from the Urban Climate and Energy Model (UCLEM) + the Conformal Cubic Atmospheric Model (CCAM) for Melbourne, Australia. The data is used in the following study: Climate change impact on energy demand in coupled building-urban-atmosphere simulations (in review). 

NetCDF outputs record surface variables at half-hour intervals for the 2x6 century-scale simulations under RCP 8.5. Recorded variables include radiation and turbulent heat fluxes, net storage heat flux, anthropogenic heat fluxes (including heating and cooling fluxes separately), internal air temperatures, precipitation, surface pressure, boundary layer height, cloud cover and 40m air temperature, humidity and wind velocity.

The dataset is made up of two experiments: control and risingAC. The first experiment holds all urban parameters fixed to 2000 levels in order to isolate climate impact. The second raises the proportion of internal spaces with installed air conditioning from 25% to 67% across the 21st century. 

The simulations were run by Mathew Lipson from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science as part of its research program "The role of land surface forcing and feedbacks for regional climate".

Model outputs located in: [gcm_driving_model]_rcp85_time_scm_CCAM_2000_2100_[experiment].nc

These files include the following variables at 30 minute timesteps
- upwelling and downwelling longwave and shortwave radiation fluxes
- sensible and latent heat fluxes
- net anthropogenic heat flux, with seperate cooling, heating and total building components
- building air temperature for fully conditioned, partly conditioned and unconditioned internal environments
- storage heat flux, including soil, building and street storage fluxes
- precipitation, surface pressure, effective albedo, boundary layer height
- air temperature at 2m above the urban "surface"
- wind at 10m above ground
- wind and humidity at 40m above ground
- cloud cover

Also in the codes folder are included 2 example configuration files (only for the ACCESS GCM output, but others are similar):
- run_scm_control.sh
- run_scm_risingAC.sh


RDA record: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/ccam-uclem-model-century-v10/1424458 
DOI: http://doi.org/10.25914/5d3e4a8074a5f 

The data is available online on the NCI TDS server:

   https://dapds00.nci.org.au/thredds/catalog/ks32/ARCCSS_Data/CCAM_UCLEM_SCM_Melbourne_2000_2100/catalog.html

and for NCI users in the ks32 project.

File organisation:
/g/data1/ks32/ARCCSS_Data/CCAM_UCLEM_SCM_Melbourne_2000_2100/v1-0   contains the CF - ACDD compliant netcdf output


Contact: m.lipson@unsw.edu.au for any question on the dataset content and provenance
         paola.petrelli@utas.edu.au for questions or issues with file accessibility

Citation: 
  Lipson, Mathew 2019. CCAM model output for: Climate change impact on energy demand in coupled building-urban-atmosphere simulations across the 21st century v1.0 NCI National Research Data Collection , doi: 10.25914/5d3e4a8074a5f