Dataset for “The week that will be: communicating climate change and the impact of climate change via extreme weeks”

The Spatial Urban Weather Generator (SUWG) developed by Newcastle University was used to produce hourly weather data at a 5 km resolution across the UK for the control period (1970s: 1961 to 1990) and future period (2080s: 2079 to 2099) under medium emission scenario (SRES A1B). We ran the SUWG 100 times for each grid to obtain 100 sets of 30-year long data, i.e., 3,000 sample years per grid location. The heat waves with three return periods were extracted from the sample years. The sample year which contains the heat wave was selected for the creation of the EnergyPlus Weather file representing an Example Extreme Week (EEW). The EEWs are available for the 1970s and 2080s with three return periods: 10, 20 and 50 years for each 5 km grid location in the UK.