33604ea0-c238-4488-813d-0ad9ab7c51ca
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Gridded estimates of daily and monthly areal rainfall for the United Kingdom (1890-2015) [CEH-GEAR]
2016-11-04
publication
2016-09-07
creation
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/33604ea0-c238-4488-813d-0ad9ab7c51ca
10.5285/33604ea0-c238-4488-813d-0ad9ab7c51ca
doi:
Tanguy, M., Dixon, H., Prosdocimi, I., Morris, D. G., Keller, V. D. J. (2016). Gridded estimates of daily and monthly areal rainfall for the United Kingdom (1890-2015) [CEH-GEAR]. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/33604ea0-c238-4488-813d-0ad9ab7c51ca
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 2015. 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.
Dr Maliko Tanguy
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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Tanguy, M.
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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author
Dixon, H.
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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author
Prosdocimi, I.
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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author
Morris, D. G.
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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author
Keller, V. D. J.
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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author
Environmental Information Data Centre
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NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
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annually
The CEH-GEAR dataset is updated annually with rainfall estimates for each calendar year usually available around 11-12 months after year-end.
Meteorological geographical features
theme
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
2008-06-01
publication
Meteorological geographical features
United Kingdom
place
Climate and climate change
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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. (2016). Gridded estimates of daily and monthly areal rainfall for the United Kingdom (1890-2015) [CEH-GEAR]. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/33604ea0-c238-4488-813d-0ad9ab7c51ca
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1000
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climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
1890-01-01
2015-12-31
-8.648
1.768
49.864
60.861
netCDF
unknown
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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 availabe) 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 (1890-2014) only by temporal coverage. That is, previous years' data have not been modified.