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UKCP09: Met Office gridded land surface climate observations - daily temperature and precipitation at 5km resolution
This dataset contains a set of daily observations of temperature (daily maximum, daily minimum and daily mean temperature) and rainfall (24 hour accumulation) interpolated to a uniform 5km grid resolution covering the period 1960 to 2014.
The input station data originate from the Met Office Integrated Data Archive System - MIDAS - a database at the Met Office of observation station data stretching back to the 18th century. (A version of MIDAS is also available through CEDA, although incremental developments to the database such as quality control and data recovery activities may result in some differences compared to the database at the time of production of the UKCP09 data - see linked datasets for access to these equivalent datasets held by CEDA).
The input station data used provide observations relating to periods 0900 to 0900 UTC, so the gridded output stored against day "dd" are as follows:
• Maximum temperature between 0900 on day dd and 0900 on day dd+1 (normally expect to occur during the afternoon of day dd)
• Minimum temperature between 0900 on day dd-1 and 0900 on day dd (normally expect to occur just before dawn on day dd)
• Mean temperature that is the average of the maximum and minimum temperature
• Rainfall (or rainfall equivalent in cases of frozen precipitation) amount between 0900 day dd and 0900 day dd+1
The gridding process accounts for effects such as latitude, longitude, altitude, coastal influence, and the effect of urban land through the use of normalisation with respect to monthly 1961 – 1990 climate normals, and in the case of temperature, a regression model.
The data are provide in CF-1.5 compliant NetCDF format. The data are additionally provided in ESRI-ascii format, suitable for ingestion in GIS applications, and a simple timeseries format for users requiring a limited number of points.
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- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2017-08-21T11:10:21
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2017-08-21T11:10:21
- Identifier
- Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 319b3f878c7d4cbfbdb356e19d8061d6
- Maintenance and update frequency
- notPlanned
- Update scope
- dataset
- Keywords
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- UKCP09
- Met Office
- land surface
- climate observations
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- atmospheric conditions
- Limitations on Public Access
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
- Access to these data is available to any registered CEDA user. Please Login or Register for an account to gain access.
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions
- Spatial representation type
- grid
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 1910-01-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 2016-12-31T23:59:59
- Code
- WGS 84
Distribution Information
- Data format
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The data are provide in CF-1.5 compliant NetCDF format. The data are additionally provided in ESRI-ascii format, suitable for ingestion in GIS applications, and a simple timeseries format for users requiring a limited number of points.
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The data are provide in CF-1.5 compliant NetCDF format. The data are additionally provided in ESRI-ascii format, suitable for ingestion in GIS applications, and a simple timeseries format for users requiring a limited number of points.
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- Quality Scope
- dataset
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- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Data were produced by the Met Office for the UKCP09 service and then prepared for archiving with Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA).
Metadata
- File identifier
- 319b3f878c7d4cbfbdb356e19d8061d6 XML
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
- Parent identifier
- UKCP09: Met Office gridded and regional land surface climate observation datasets 87f43af9d02e42f483351d79b3d6162a
- Resource type
- dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2021-08-01T23:10:24
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
