HadISD: global sub-daily station data for climate extremes

HadISD is a station based dataset comprising 6103 stations covering 1973-present. These stations are a subset of the stations available in the Integrated Surface Database (ISD), and are ones selected to be those most useful for climate studies (long records and high reporting frequency). Individual stations within the ISD were composited when it was appropriate to do so to improve the coverage.

HadISD is a multi-variate dataset, where the following fields are available: temperature, dewpoint temperature, sea-level pressure, wind speed, wind direction and cloud data (total, low, mid and high levels). These variables are all quality controlled using an automatic suite of tests, the code for which is available on request. The QC tests were designed to remove bad data whilst keeping true extremes. A number of other variables are also carried through to the final NetCDF files, but have not been quality controlled (e.g. precipitation period, precipitation depth, sunshine duration).

Date (Publication): 2016-07-28T07:33:46

Date (Creation): 2016-07-28T07:33:46

Identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/f579035b3c954475922e4b13705a7669

Identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / f579035b3c954475922e4b13705a7669

Author

Met Office Hadley Centre (MOHC) - author

FitzRoy Road , Exeter , EX1 3PB , UK

Author

Irish Climate and Research UnitS (ICARUS) - author

Maynooth University , Maynooth , Co Kildare , Ireland

Author

National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) - author

P.O. Box 3000 , Boulder , CO 80307-3 , USA

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National Centers for Environmental Information - NOAA (NCEI-NOAA) - author

National Centers for Environmental Information Federal Building , 151 Patton Avenue , Asheville , NC 28801-5 , USA

Custodian

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - custodian

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

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Owner

Unavailable - Dunn, Robert J. H. ( data_owner )

Distributor

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - distributor

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

01235446432

pointofContact

Unavailable - Dunn, Robert J. H. ( point_of_contact )

Publisher

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - publisher

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

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Update scope: series Series

Keywords

HadOBS
HadISD
temperature
dew point
sea-level pressure
wind speed
wind direction
cloud data

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

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Other constraints: Under the following licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/non-commercial-government-licence/version/2/, appropriate use of these data may fall under personal, academic and policy use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.

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Metadata language: EnglishEnglish

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

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Begin date: 1931-01-01T00:00:00

End date: 2025-08-29T23:59:59

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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Distributor

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - Data Center Contact

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

01235446432

OnLine resource: CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource

OnLine resource: HadISD Homepage
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OnLine resource: Integrated Surface Database (ISD)
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OnLine resource: HadISD blog
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OnLine resource: Met Office HadOBS twitter feed
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Hierarchy level: series Series

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Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Statement: Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.

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Metadata language: EnglishEnglish

Character set: 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8

Hierarchy level: series Series

Hierarchy level name: series

Date stamp: 2025-11-15T03:27:11

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Point of contact

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

01235446432

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