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Gridded estimates of daily and monthly areal rainfall for the United Kingdom (1890-2019) [CEH-GEAR]

1 km gridded estimates of daily and monthly rainfall for Great-Britain and Northern Ireland (together with approximately 3000 km2 of catchment in the Republic of Ireland) from 1890 to 2019. The rainfall estimates are derived from the Met Office national database of observed precipitation. To derive the estimates, monthly and daily (when complete month available) precipitation totals from the UK rain gauge network are used. The natural neighbour interpolation methodology, including a normalisation step based on average annual rainfall, was used to generate the daily and monthly estimates. The estimated rainfall on a given day refers to the rainfall amount precipitated in 24 hours between 9am on that day until 9am on the following day. The CEH-GEAR dataset has been developed according to the guidance provided in BS 7843-4:2012. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/dbf13dd5-90cd-457a-a986-f2f9dd97e93c

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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
Point of contact
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Tanguy, M.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1516-6834
Author
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Tanguy, M.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1516-6834
Author
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Dixon, H.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7415-063X
Author
  Ca' Foscari University of Venice - Prosdocimi, I.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8565-094X
Author
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Morris, D.G.
Author
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Keller, V.D.J.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4489-5363
Publisher
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Custodian
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Owner
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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
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