UK Climate Resilience Programme decision support tools

The UK Climate Resilience Programme produced a wide range of outputs, including interactive tools that can be used to support decision making.

Keep Bristol Cool mapping tool

The Keep Bristol Cool mapping tool is for policy makers and practitioners such as urban designers, landscape architects, or emergency planners. It demonstrates how current heat vulnerability varies across different neighbourhoods throughout Bristol, and how climate change may increase temperatures in the future.

Experts from the Met Office and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Manchester worked with Bristol City Council to map urban heat risk across Bristol. 

The tool gives insights into how urban heat risks vary across the city and within communities. It also identifies the areas where high temperatures and heatwaves could have the biggest impact on people’s health and wellbeing.

This information is intended to help Bristol City Council and other decision-makers in the city build greater resilience to high temperatures and heatwaves.

Climate services for the transport and energy sectors

The Climate services for the transport and energy sectors project scoped and co-developed initial prototype climate services for the transport and energy sectors in the UK. Read this factsheet: Impacts of extreme weather on the UK Transport Sector (PDF document).

Erosion Hazards in River Catchment

The tool consists of a mapviewer to illustrate the potential flood risks, erosion/deposition and associated costs for Cockermouth in Cumbria (Rivers Derwent and Cocker).

It is an output from the Erosion Hazards in River Catchments: Making Critical Infrastructure More Climate Resilient project.

Climate Risk Indicators

The UK Climate Risk Indicators website provides information about 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. It shows how global emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change may increase in the future. Users can plot maps showing the variation in indicators across the UK, and they can plot and download time series for specific locations.

The estimates are available for different time periods up to the end of the century and for different assumptions about how greenhouse gas emissions change. They are presented using accessible maps and graphs. Research underpinning the data on the website was undertaken as part of the Climate Risk Indicators project.

The website is aimed at agencies and decision-makers responsible for helping the UK adapt to and prepare for climate risks to communities, transport, infrastructure, buildings and agriculture. Read this article to learn more.

Coastal Resilience

The Coastal Resilience Model (CRM) is a tool developed from the CoastalRes project to measure resilience to coastal erosion and flood hazard. The tool quantifies the economic, environmental and social dimensions of resilience, with reference to various performance measures that can be assessed using open-access geospatial datasets. The analytical approach uses Multiple-Criteria Analysis (MCA) to derive a composite Resilience Index derived from a broad set of diverse measures and data, as well as stakeholder weightings.

The methodology was developed using local case studies and the entire coast of England as a case study. It demonstrates the practicality of formalising and quantifying resilience at multiple scales.  

Met Office Projecting Future Sea Level (ProFSea) tool

The Met Office Projecting Future Sea Level (ProFSea) tool generates sea-level projections to assess the impact of future sea-level change on coastal regions. It is an output from the the Climate Service Pilot on Improving Coastal Resilience project. 

The ProFSea tool and related documentation is available on GitHub. Sea-level projections around the UK are also included on the Met Office Climate Data Portal.

Crop-NET Yield Demonstrator

The CROP-NET (Monitoring and predicting the effects of climate change on crop yields) project’s aim was to find out the requirements for a crop and grass yield monitoring and modelling service to provide improved predictions of future climate change impacts. 

The CropNet Demonstrator allows farmers and other users to across yield projections for wheat, oil seed rape and grass at their location up to 2080. They can also see how the fields are likely to perform against other fields locally, regionally and nationally. Allowing farmers to interrogate the climate change projections and how the impact on yields enables them to make decisions about future farming regimes.

UK Lakes Observatory

The UK Lakes Observatory (UKLO) is a prototype operational service providing information on water quality for over 900 water bodies in the UK from satellite observations. 

The service uses data from the European Space Agency’s Copernicus Sentinel-2A/B satellites to produce weekly aggregated estimates of the phytoplankton chlorophyll-a concentration at a 20 m pixel resolution. The data are processed using an innovative processing chain developed at the University of Stirling and visualised on a web-based platform.  

UK Adaptation Inventory

The UK Adaptation Inventory was compiled as part of the OpenCLIM project. It aims to document adaptation on the ground, based on national reporting to government by public and private sector organisations and a systematic review of peer-reviewed literature.