Identification info

Metadata Language

English (en)

Character set

utf8

Dataset Reference Date ()

2016-11-04

Dataset Reference Date ()

2016-09-07

Identifier

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/33604ea0-c238-4488-813d-0ad9ab7c51ca

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 ()

• Meteorological geographical features

GeoNames

• United Kingdom

Keywords

• Climate and climate change

Limitations on Public Access

otherRestrictions

Other constraints

Superseded

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

• Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

N

S

E

W

Begin date

1890-01-01

End date

2015-12-31

Code

OSGB 1936 / British National Grid

Code

OSNI 1952 / Irish National Grid

Code

OSNI 1952

Distribution Information

Data format

• netCDF ()

Quality Scope

dataset

Other

dataset

Statement

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

2023-04-27T14:20:34

Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.3