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Gridded estimates of daily and monthly areal rainfall for the United Kingdom (1890-2015) [CEH-GEAR]
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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- utf8
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2016-11-04
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2016-09-07
- Identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/33604ea0-c238-4488-813d-0ad9ab7c51ca
- Other citation details
- Tanguy, M., Dixon, H., Prosdocimi, I., Morris, D. G., Keller, V. D. J. (2016). Gridded estimates of daily and monthly areal rainfall for the United Kingdom (1890-2015) [CEH-GEAR]. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/33604ea0-c238-4488-813d-0ad9ab7c51ca
- Maintenance and update frequency
- annually
- Maintenance note
- The CEH-GEAR dataset is updated annually with rainfall estimates for each calendar year usually available around 11-12 months after year-end.
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- Meteorological geographical features
- GeoNames
- Keywords
- Limitations on Public Access
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
- Licence terms and conditions apply
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
- If you reuse this data, you should cite: Tanguy, M., Dixon, H., Prosdocimi, I., Morris, D. G., Keller, V. D. J. (2016). Gridded estimates of daily and monthly areal rainfall for the United Kingdom (1890-2015) [CEH-GEAR]. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/33604ea0-c238-4488-813d-0ad9ab7c51ca
- Spatial representation type
- grid
- Distance
- 1000 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 1890-01-01
- End date
- 2015-12-31
Distribution Information
- Data format
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netCDF
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netCDF
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- Resource Locator
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Supporting information
Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset
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Supporting information
Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset
- Quality Scope
- dataset
- Other
- dataset
Report
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
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The rainfall estimates are derived from the Met Office national database of observed precipitations. To derive the monthly estimates, monthly and daily (when complete month available) precipitation totals from the UK raingauge network are used. An additional quality control step (data already quality controlled by the Met Office) was introduced to check events greater than the 200 year return period. The natural neighbour interpolation methodology, including a normalisation step based on average annual rainfall (SAAR61-90), was used to generate the daily and monthly rainfall grids. The daily grids are adjusted so that the monthly totals calculated from those are in agreement with the monthly grids. As an indicator of the quality of the estimates, the dataset also contains for each grid generated a grid containing the distance to the closest raingauge used to interpolate the grid point. A grid containing the number of missing estimates for each year is also provided. The CEH-GEAR dataset has been developed according to the guidance provided in BS 7843-4:2012.
This version of the CEH-GEAR dataset differs from the previous version (1890-2014) only by temporal coverage. That is, previous years' data have not been modified.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 33604ea0-c238-4488-813d-0ad9ab7c51ca XML
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1)
- Resource type
- dataset
- Hierarchy level name
- dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2022-11-03T15:24:06
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
