HadUK-Grid Gridded Climate Observations on a 25km grid over the UK, v1.0.1.0 (1862-2018)

HadUK-Grid is a collection of gridded climate variables derived from the network of UK land surface observations. The data have been interpolated from meteorological station data onto a uniform grid to provide complete and consistent coverage across the UK. The data set at 25 km resolution is derived from the associated 1km x 1km resolution to allow for comparison to data from UKCP18 climate projections. The dataset spans the period from 1862 to 2018, but the start time is dependent on climate variable and temporal resolution. The grids are produced for daily, monthly, seasonal and annual timescales, as well as long term averages for a set of climatological reference periods. Variables include air temperature (maximum, minimum and mean), precipitation, sunshine, mean sea level pressure, wind speed, relative humidity, vapour pressure, days of snow lying, and days of ground frost.

This data set supersedes the UKCP09 gridded observations and the earlier v1.0.0.0 version. Subsequent versions may be released in due course and will follow the version numbering as outlined by Hollis et al. (2018, see linked documentation).

The primary purpose of these data are to facilitate monitoring of UK climate and research into climate change, impacts and adaptation. The datasets have been created by the Met Office with financial support from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) in order to support the Public Weather Service Customer Group (PWSCG), the Hadley Centre Climate Programme, and the UK Climate Projections (UKCP18) project. The data recovery activity to supplement 19th and early 20th Century data availability has also been funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC grant ref: NE/L01016X/1) project "Analysis of historic drought and water scarcity in the UK". The dataset is provided under Open Government Licence.

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Metadata Language: English (en)

Dataset Reference Date (): 2019-11-07T11:27:17

Dataset Reference Date (): 2019-11-07T11:27:17

Identifier: http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/e84aabcd886c41c488b4bd84558ab974

Identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / e84aabcd886c41c488b4bd84558ab974

Identifier: doi / http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/e84aabcd886c41c488b4bd84558ab974

Met Office - author

Met Office , FitzRoy Road , Exeter , EX1 3PB ,

0370 900 0100

Unavailable - Hollis, Dan ( author )

Unavailable - McCarthy, Mark ( author )

Unavailable - Kendon, Michael ( author )

Unavailable - Legg, Tim ( author )

Unavailable - Simpson, Ian ( author )

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - custodian

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

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Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

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Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

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Met Office - point_of_contact

Met Office , FitzRoy Road , Exeter , EX1 3PB ,

0370 900 0100

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - publisher

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

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Update scope: dataset

Keywords

Met Office
UKCP18
BEIS
Defra
land surface
climate observations
hadobs

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()

atmospheric conditions

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Spatial representation type: grid

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Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

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Begin date: 1862-01-01T00:00:00

End date: 2018-12-31T23:59:59

Code: WGS 84

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Data format

Data are NetCDF formatted ()

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Resource Locator: Hollis, D, McCarthy, MP, Kendon, M, Legg, T, Simpson, I. HadUK‐Grid—A new UK dataset of gridded climate observations. Geosci Data J. 2019; 00: 1– 9. https://doi.org/10.1002/gdj3.78
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Resource Locator: Hollis, D, McCarthy, MP, Kendon, M, Legg, T, Simpson, I. HadUK‐Grid—A new UK dataset of gridded climate observations. Geosci Data J. 2019; 00: 1– 9. https://doi.org/10.1002/gdj3.78
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Dataset Reference Date (): 2010-12-08

Statement: Data provided by the UK Met Office

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Metadata Language: English (en)

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

Parent identifier: HadUK-Grid gridded and regional average climate observations for the UK 4dc8450d889a491ebb20e724debe2dfb

Resource type: dataset

Metadata Date: 2022-05-16T23:31:13

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

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