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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).

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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
Author
  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
01235446432
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
01235446432
Maintenance and update frequency
unknown Unknown
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
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
Please contact the data centre for assistance on accessing data from this dataset collection.
Use constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
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.
Spatial representation type
grid Grid
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
Distribution format
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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

No further details.

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

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement
Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.
File identifier
f579035b3c954475922e4b13705a7669 XML
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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