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CRU TS3.00: Climatic Research Unit (CRU) Time-Series (TS) Version 3.00 of High Resolution Gridded Data of Month-by-month Variation in Climate (Jan. 1901 - Dec.2006)
The gridded CRU TS (time-series) 3.00 data are month-by-month variations in climate over the period 1901-2006, on high-resolution (0.5x0.5 degree) grids, produced by the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia.
The CRU TS 3.00 variables include cloud cover, diurnal temperature range, frost day frequency, precipitation, daily mean temperature, monthly average daily maximum/min temperature, vapour pressure and wet day frequency.
The BADC holds the preliminary CRU TS3.00 datasets for the period 1901-2006. Note that these data are yearly files REGARDLESS of whether the data exists for the full year. In CRU TS3.00, the data up to 06/2006 *ONLY* has been used.
The CRU TS 3.00 data are monthly gridded fields based on monthly observational data, which are calculated from daily or sub-daily data by National Meteorological Services and other external agents. The ASCII and netcdf data files both contain monthly mean values for the various parameters.
All CRU TS output files are actual values - NOT anomalies.
CRU TS data are available for download to all CEDA users.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2013-10-22T16:03:20
- Date (Creation)
- 2013-10-22T16:03:20
- Identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / c9dd2107e0b7e8c7b6aca7c34980f679
- Maintenance and update frequency
- notPlanned Not planned
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- dataset Dataset
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- CRU TS
- ATMOSPHERE
- EARTHSCIENCE
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- atmospheric conditions
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Access to these data is available to any registered CEDA user. Please Login or Register for a CEDA account to gain access.
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Spatial representation type
- grid Grid
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 1901-01-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 2006-12-31T00:00:00
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
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The CRU TS 3.00 data (i.e. climate variables) are available in both compressed (.gz extension) ASCII ".dat" and netcdf ".nc" file formats. CRU TS 3.00 metadata files (i.e. stations) are available in ASCII. To understand how to read the CRU TS 3.00 data and metadata files, please refer to the CRU_TS_3.00_File_Formats_explained PDF documentation (under Linked Documentation below).
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The CRU TS 3.00 data (i.e. climate variables) are available in both compressed (.gz extension) ASCII ".dat" and netcdf ".nc" file formats. CRU TS 3.00 metadata files (i.e. stations) are available in ASCII. To understand how to read the CRU TS 3.00 data and metadata files, please refer to the CRU_TS_3.00_File_Formats_explained PDF documentation (under Linked Documentation below).
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
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Climate Research Unit (CRU) data Homepage
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Harris et al. (2014) Reference
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CRU TS 3.00 File Formats explained
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CRU User Guide
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- dataset Dataset
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- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- CRU TS 3.00 data files acquired directly from CRU in 2007. CRU provided the BADC with software to generate the CRU datasets in 2010, and this was used to produce CRU TS 3.10 at the BADC in early 2011.
- File identifier
- c9dd2107e0b7e8c7b6aca7c34980f679 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
- Parent identifier
- Climatic Research Unit (CRU): Time-series (TS) datasets of variations in climate with variations in other phenomena v3 3f8944800cc48e1cbc29a5ee12d8542d
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-16T03:02:14
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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