Date (Publication)

2021-11-11

Identifier

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/dbf13dd5-90cd-457a-a986-f2f9dd97e93c

Identifier

doi: / 10.5285/dbf13dd5-90cd-457a-a986-f2f9dd97e93c

Other citation details

Tanguy, M., Dixon, H., Prosdocimi, I., Morris, D.G., Keller, V.D.J. (2021). Gridded estimates of daily and monthly areal rainfall for the United Kingdom (1890-2019) [CEH-GEAR]. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/dbf13dd5-90cd-457a-a986-f2f9dd97e93c

Maintenance and update frequency

annually Annually

Maintenance note

The CEH-GEAR dataset is updated annually with rainfall estimates for each calendar year usually available around 11-12 months after year-end.

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Meteorological geographical features

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This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence

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© Database Right/Copyright UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. All rights reserved.

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Contains material based on Met Éireann data © Met Éireann and Met Office data © Crown copyright.

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Users should be aware that the quality of the rainfall data will decrease when the minimum distance (i.e. distance to the closest gauge) increases. The value of the minimum distance is provided alongside rainfall values within the dataset. For values of minimum distance greater than 100 km, rainfall values are not derived.

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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Tanguy, M., Dixon, H., Prosdocimi, I., Morris, D.G., Keller, V.D.J. (2021). Gridded estimates of daily and monthly areal rainfall for the United Kingdom (1890-2019) [CEH-GEAR]. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/dbf13dd5-90cd-457a-a986-f2f9dd97e93c

Spatial representation type

grid Grid

Distance

1000  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001

Metadata language

EnglishEnglish

Character set

utf8 UTF8

Topic category

• Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date

1890-01-01

End date

2019-12-31

Unique resource identifier

OSGB 1936 / British National Grid

Reference system identifier

OSNI 1952 / Irish National Grid

Distribution format

• NetCDF ( 4 )

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Statement

The rainfall estimates are derived from the Met Office national database of observed precipitations. To derive the monthly estimates, monthly and daily (when complete month available) precipitation totals from the UK raingauge network are used. An additional quality control step (data already quality controlled by the Met Office) was introduced to check events greater than the 200 year return period. The natural neighbour interpolation methodology, including a normalisation step based on average annual rainfall (SAAR61-90), was used to generate the daily and monthly rainfall grids. The daily grids are adjusted so that the monthly totals calculated from those are in agreement with the monthly grids. As an indicator of the quality of the estimates, the dataset also contains for each grid generated a grid containing the distance to the closest raingauge used to interpolate the grid point. A grid containing the number of missing estimates for each year is also provided. The CEH-GEAR dataset has been developed according to the guidance provided in BS 7843-4:2012. This version of the CEH-GEAR dataset differs from the previous version (1890-2017) only by temporal coverage. That is, previous years' data have not been modified.

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Hierarchy level

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Hierarchy level name

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Date stamp

2025-05-06T12:20:42

Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.3