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Gridded simulations of available precipitation (rainfall + snowmelt) for Great Britain, developed from observed data (1961-2018) and climate projections (1980-2080)

This dataset presents nationally consistent simulations of available precipitation (rainfall + snowmelt) for Great Britain. These include simulations driven by observational data covering January 1961 – December 2018 and simulations driven by Regional Climate Model (RCM) projections covering December 1980 - November 2080. Both are provided as gridded data at 1km resolution. The observed input data was HadUK-Grid 1km daily precipitation and temperature. The RCM input data was a 12-member perturbed parameter ensemble from the UK Climate Projections 2018 (UKCP18), provided at a ‘Regional’ 12km resolution aligned with the GB national grid. A simple snowmelt module was used to transform these time-series of precipitation and temperature into available precipitation. This data was developed for, and used within, the Enhanced Future Flows and Groundwater (eFLaG) project (Hannaford et al., 2022). The eFLaG project was established through a partnership project funded by the Met Office led component of the Strategic Priorities Fund Climate Resilience Programme under contract P107493 (CR19_4 UK Climate Resilience). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/755e0369-f8db-4550-aabe-3f9c9fbcb93d

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Date (Publication)
2022-09-27
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/755e0369-f8db-4550-aabe-3f9c9fbcb93d
Identifier
doi: / 10.5285/755e0369-f8db-4550-aabe-3f9c9fbcb93d
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Lane, R.A., Kay, A.L. (2022). Gridded simulations of available precipitation (rainfall + snowmelt) for Great Britain, developed from observed data (1961-2018) and climate projections (1980-2080). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/755e0369-f8db-4550-aabe-3f9c9fbcb93d
Author
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Lane, R.A.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4176-9214
Author
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Kay, A.L.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5526-1756
Owner
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Point of contact
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Lane, R.A.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4176-9214
Publisher
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Custodian
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Meteorological geographical features
GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3
  • modelling
  • hydrology
  • water resources conservation
  • climate change
  • atmospheric precipitation
Keywords
  • Climate and climate change
  • Rainfall
  • Projections
  • UKCP18
  • Great Britain
  • England
  • Scotland
  • Wales
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This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Lane, R.A., Kay, A.L. (2022). Gridded simulations of available precipitation (rainfall + snowmelt) for Great Britain, developed from observed data (1961-2018) and climate projections (1980-2080). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/755e0369-f8db-4550-aabe-3f9c9fbcb93d
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grid Grid
Distance
1000  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
utf8 UTF8
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
Begin date
1980-01-01
End date
2080-12-31
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OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
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  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement
For the observation-based simulations of available precipitation, the HadUK-Grid 1km observed daily precipitation and minimum/maximum daily temperatures were input directly into a snowmelt module. For the RCM-based simulations of available precipitation, climate model output from the UKCP18 Regional projections was used. This consisted of a 12-member perturbed parameter RCM ensemble, providing daily precipitation and minimum/maximum daily temperatures at 12km resolution. Precipitation data was bias corrected using a simple monthly-mean approach, and then downscaled to 1km based on patterns of average annual rainfall. Temperature data was downscaled to 1km resolution using a lapse rate and elevation data. The downscaled RCM data were then input into the snowmelt module to provide available precipitation. A detailed description of the data processing is given in the accompanying documentation.
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755e0369-f8db-4550-aabe-3f9c9fbcb93d XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) 8859 Part 1
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dataset
Date stamp
2025-11-13T16:23:57
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg , Lancaster , LA1 4AP , UK
https://eidc.ac.uk/
 
 

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