Met Office Hadley Centre Central England Temperature (HadCET) Series

The longest available instrumental record of temperature in the world is now available from CEDA-BADC. The monthly series of temperature begins in 1659 and the daily data starts in 1772. Seasonal series are also available.

The mean, minimum and maximum datasets are updated monthly, with data for a month usually available by the 3rd of the next month. A provisional CET value for the current month is calculated on a daily basis. The mean daily data series begins in 1772 and the mean monthly data in 1659. Mean maximum and minimum daily and monthly data are also available, beginning in 1878.

These historical temperature series are representative of the Midlands region in England, UK (a roughly triangular area of the United Kingdom enclosed by Bristol, Lancashire and London).

Manley (1953,1974) compiled most of the monthly series, covering 1659 to 1973. These data were updated to 1991 by Parker et al (1992), when they calculated the daily series. Both series are now kept up to date by the Climate Data Monitoring section of the Hadley Centre, Met Office. Since 1974 the data have been adjusted by 0.1-0.3 degree C to allow for urban warming.

The Met Office have also been compiling Maximum, Minimum and Mean Daily Central England Temperatures data files since January 1878. The following stations are used by the Met Office to compile the CET data: Rothamsted, Malvern, Squires Gate and Ringway.

But in November 2004, the weather station Stonyhurst replaced Ringway and revised urban warming and bias adjustments have now been applied to the Stonyhurst data after a period of reduced reliability from the station in the summer months.

The data set is compiled by the Met Office Hadley Centre.

Identification info

Metadata Language: English (en)

Dataset Reference Date (): 2006-12-10T02:45:37

Dataset Reference Date (): 2006-12-10T02:45:37

Identifier: http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/a946415f9345f6da9bf4c475c19477b6

Identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / a946415f9345f6da9bf4c475c19477b6

Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research (MOHC) - author

Met Office , Exeter ,

NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - custodian

British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

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NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - distributor

British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

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NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - point_of_contact

British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

+44(0)1235 446432

NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - publisher

British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

+44(0)1235 446432

Maintenance and update frequency: unknown

Update scope: series

Keywords

HadCET
temperature
Hadley
Met Office

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atmospheric conditions

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Begin date: 1659-01-01T00:01:15

Code: WGS 84

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Resource Locator: CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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Resource Locator: HadCET plots for the current and previous years from the Hadley Centre
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Resource Locator: Parker D.E. and Horton E.B., 2005
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Resource Locator: Manley G., 1953
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Resource Locator: Manley G., 1974
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Resource Locator: HadCET Record Breakers
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Resource Locator: Parker D.E. et al., 1992
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Resource Locator: HadCET Representative Map
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Resource Locator: CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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Resource Locator: HadCET plots for the current and previous years from the Hadley Centre
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Resource Locator: Parker D.E. and Horton E.B., 2005
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Resource Locator: Manley G., 1953
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Resource Locator: Manley G., 1974
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Resource Locator: HadCET Record Breakers
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Resource Locator: Parker D.E. et al., 1992
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Resource Locator: HadCET Representative Map
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Quality Scope: series

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Dataset Reference Date (): 2010-12-08

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File identifier: a946415f9345f6da9bf4c475c19477b6 XML

Metadata Language: English (en)

Character set: 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646

Resource type: series

Hierarchy level name: series

Metadata Date: 2023-08-22T00:09:10

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)

British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

+44(0)1235 446432

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