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HadUK-Grid Gridded Climate Observations on a 25km grid over the UK, v1.0.3.0 (1862-2020)
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 dataset at 25 km resolution is derived from the associated 1 km x 1 km resolution to allow for comparison to data from UKCP18 climate projections. The dataset spans the period from 1862 to 2020, but the start time is dependent on climate variable and temporal resolution.
The gridded data 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This data set supersedes the previous versions of this dataset which also superseded UKCP09 gridded observations. Subsequent versions may be released in due course and will follow the version numbering as outlined by Hollis et al. (2018, see linked documentation).
This release includes data for the calendar year 2020. Ongoing quality checks and data recovery to historical data results in changes to around 0.01% of the observational station data used as input to produce the gridded dataset. A correction to _FillValue assignment in the metadata for seasonal and annual grids has also been applied to be consistent with the rest of the dataset.
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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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2021-08-26T09:32:12
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2021-08-26T09:32:12
- Identifier
- NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / 616e6194a8c742d790f3b43bf66a534d
- Identifier
- doi / 10.5285/616e6194a8c742d790f3b43bf66a534d
- Maintenance and update frequency
- notPlanned
- Update scope
- dataset
- Keywords
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- Met Office
- UKCP18
- BEIS
- Defra
- land surface
- climate observations
- hadobs
- 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
- 1862-01-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 2020-12-31T23:59:59
- Code
- WGS 84
Distribution Information
- Data format
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Data are NetCDF formatted.
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Data are NetCDF formatted.
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- Resource Locator
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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DOWNLOAD
Download Data
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HadUK-Grid Summary Change Log (upto version v1.0.3.0) detailing changes to available data and processing
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HadUK-Grid v1.0.3.0 change log - new file lists of new files and file number totals for deleted, changed and adjusted files
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Met Office documentation on HadUK-Grid data
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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DOWNLOAD
Download Data
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HadUK-Grid Summary Change Log (upto version v1.0.3.0) detailing changes to available data and processing
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HadUK-Grid v1.0.3.0 change log - new file lists of new files and file number totals for deleted, changed and adjusted files
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Met Office documentation on HadUK-Grid data
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- Quality Scope
- dataset
Report
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Data provided by the UK Met Office for archiving in the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) archives.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 616e6194a8c742d790f3b43bf66a534d XML
- 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
- 2023-12-01T00:38:22
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
