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UKCP09: Met Office gridded land surface climate observations - monthly climate variables at 5km resolution
This dataset contains a set of observed monthly climate variables on a 5km resolution grid. The observations are derived from 16 daily climate variables that have been averaged (e.g. daily maximum temperature) or summed (e.g. monthly total precipitation) over calendar months. The input station data originate from the Met Office Integrated Data Archive System (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).
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 some variables a regression model. For more details about the construction see Perry and Hollis (2005).
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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- Date (Publication)
- 2017-08-21T11:38:37
- Date (Creation)
- 2017-08-21T11:38:37
- Identifier
- Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 94f757d9b28846b5ac810a277a916fa7
- Maintenance and update frequency
- notPlanned Not planned
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- dataset 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
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- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
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- Spatial representation type
- grid Grid
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- 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
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
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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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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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Description of the UKCP09 gridded land surface climate observations production methodology
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Description of the UKCP09 gridded land surface climate observations data formats
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Description of UKCP09 gridded land surface climate observations variables
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FAQ page for UKCP09 gridded land surface climate observations
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- dataset Dataset
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- Date (Publication)
- 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).
- File identifier
- 94f757d9b28846b5ac810a277a916fa7 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
- Parent identifier
- UKCP09: Met Office gridded and regional land surface climate observation datasets 87f43af9d02e42f483351d79b3d6162a
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-15T03:05:10
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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