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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This data set supersedes the previous versions of this dataset which also superseded UKCP09 gridded observations.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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Date (Publication)
2021-08-26T09:32:12
Date (Creation)
2021-08-26T09:32:12
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/616e6194a8c742d790f3b43bf66a534d
Identifier
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / 616e6194a8c742d790f3b43bf66a534d
Identifier
doi / 10.5285/616e6194a8c742d790f3b43bf66a534d
Author
  Met Office - author
Met Office , FitzRoy Road , Exeter , EX1 3PB ,
0370 900 0100
Author
  Unavailable - Hollis, Dan ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - McCarthy, Mark ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Kendon, Michael ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Legg, Tim ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Simpson, Ian ( author )
Custodian
  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - custodian
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Distributor
  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - distributor
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
pointofContact
  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - point_of_contact
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
pointofContact
  Met Office - point_of_contact
Met Office , FitzRoy Road , Exeter , EX1 3PB ,
0370 900 0100
Publisher
  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - publisher
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
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notPlanned Not planned
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dataset Dataset
Keywords
  • Met Office
  • UKCP18
  • BEIS
  • Defra
  • land surface
  • climate observations
  • hadobs
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • atmospheric conditions
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Other constraints
Under the following licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
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grid Grid
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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Begin date
1862-01-01T00:00:00
End date
2020-12-31T23:59:59
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
Distribution format
  • Data are NetCDF formatted. ()

Distributor
  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - Data Center Contact
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
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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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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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Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement
Data provided by the UK Met Office for archiving in the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) archives.
File identifier
616e6194a8c742d790f3b43bf66a534d XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
Parent identifier
HadUK-Grid gridded and regional average climate observations for the UK 4dc8450d889a491ebb20e724debe2dfb
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2025-05-09T02:24:03
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
 
 

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