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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
- 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
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Tanguy, M.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1516-6834
- 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.
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- Meteorological geographical features
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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
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Begin date
- 1890-01-01
- End date
- 2019-12-31
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