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Tanguy, M.; Prudhomme, C.; Smith, K.; Hannaford, J.

Historic Gridded Potential Evapotranspiration (PET) based on temperature-based equation McGuinness-Bordne calibrated for the UK (1891-2015)

https://doi.org/10.5285/17b9c4f7-1c30-4b6f-b2fe-f7780159939c
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Monthly and daily 5km gridded Potential Evapotranspiration (PET) data for the UK. PET was derived using temperature-based equation from McGuinness-Bordne calibrated for the UK (calibration period: 1961-1990). The units are mm/day for daily PET and mm/month for monthly PET. The dataset covers the period from 1891-2015.

For both subsets (daily and monthly), a set of performance metrics were calculated, which are provided together with the PET grids. The list of metrics provided is: Mean Absolute Percent Error (MAPE), Nash-Sutcliffe Efficiency (NSE), Kling-Gupta Efficiency (KGE), Correlation Coefficient, Variability Ratio (VR), Bias Ratio and monthly MAPE.
Publication date: 2017-09-18
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netCDF

Spatial information

Study area
Spatial representation type
Raster
Spatial reference system
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid

Temporal information

Temporal extent
1891-01-01    to    2015-12-31

Provenance & quality

Potential Evapotranspiration (PET) for this dataset was derived using temperature-based equation from McGuinness-Bordne (Oudin et al., 2005, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2004.08.026). The temperature used to derive the PET grids are the 5km mean temperature grids provided by the Met Office, which were derived using the same methodology as UKCP09 dataset (Perry and Hollis, 2005, doi:10.1002/joc.1161). The monthly temperature data was then disaggregated to daily temperature time series using pchip (piecewise cubic hermite interpolating polynomial) method. McGuinness-Bordne temperature-based Potential Evapotranspiration (PET) equation was calibrated for the UK (calibration period: 1961-1990). This calibrated version was then applied to produce the gridded daily PET. Monthly totals were derived from the daily PET grids to produce monthly PET grids. A set of performance metrics (Mean Absolute Percent Error (MAPE), Nash-Sutcliffe Efficiency (NSE), Kling-Gupta Efficiency (KGE), Correlation Coefficient, Variability Ratio (VR), Bias Ratio and monthly MAPE) were calculate to estimate the goodness-of-fit of the McGuinness-Bordne equation. These metrics are provided as grids as part of the dataset, and can be used as a measure of the spatial variability of the quality of the data.

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Tanguy, M.; Prudhomme, C.; Smith, K.; Hannaford, J. (2017). Historic Gridded Potential Evapotranspiration (PET) based on temperature-based equation McGuinness-Bordne calibrated for the UK (1891-2015). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/17b9c4f7-1c30-4b6f-b2fe-f7780159939c

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Tanguy, M., Prudhomme, C., Smith, K., & Hannaford, J. (2018). Historical gridded reconstruction of potential evapotranspiration for the UK. Earth System Science Data, 10(2), 951–968. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-951-2018
Harrigan, S., Prudhomme, C., Parry, S., Smith, K., & Tanguy, M. (2018). Benchmarking ensemble streamflow prediction skill in the UK. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 22(3), 2023–2039. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-2023-2018
Parry, S., Wilby, R., Prudhomme, C., Wood, P., & McKenzie, A. (2018). Demonstrating the utility of a drought termination framework: prospects for groundwater level recovery in England and Wales in 2018 or beyond. Environmental Research Letters, 13(6), 64040. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aac78c
Parsons, D.J., Rey, D., Tanguy, M., & Holman, I.P. (2019). Regional variations in the link between drought indices and reported agricultural impacts of drought. Agricultural Systems, 173, 119–129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2019.02.015
Smith, K.A., Barker, L.J., Tanguy, M., Parry, S., Harrigan, S., Legg, T.P., Prudhomme, C., & Hannaford, J. (2019). A multi-objective ensemble approach to hydrological modelling in the UK: an application to historic drought reconstruction. In Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (Vol. 23, Issue 8, pp. 3247–3268). Copernicus GmbH. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-3247-2019
Pye, K., Blott, S. J., Forbes, N., & Maskell, L.C. (2020). Geomorphological and ecological change in a coastal foreland dune system, Sandscale haws, Cumbria, UK: the management challenges posed by climate change. In Journal of Coastal Conservation (Vol. 24, Issue 6). Springer Science and Business Media LLC. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11852-020-00781-5
Fan, Y.R., Shi, X., Duan, Q.Y., & Yu, L. (2022). Towards reliable uncertainty quantification for hydrologic predictions, Part I: Development of a particle copula Metropolis Hastings method. In Journal of Hydrology (Vol. 612, p. 128163). Elsevier BV https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.128163
Barker, L.J., Hannaford, J., Parry, S., Smith, K.A., Tanguy, M., & Prudhomme, C. (2019). Historic hydrological droughts 1891-2015: systematic characterisation for a diverse set of catchments across the UK.Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 23(11), 4583-4602. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-4583-2019
Fan, Y. (2024) Ensemble flood predictions for River Thames under climate change. National Science Open 3, 20230027. https://doi.org/10.1360/nso/20230027
Jacque, H., Knox, J.W., Gush, M., & Holman, I.P. (2023). Modelling the potential of rainwater harvesting to improve the sustainability of landscape and public garden irrigation. In Journal of Environmental Management (Vol. 348, p. 119167). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.119167

Correspondence/contact details

Tanguy, M.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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UNITED KINGDOM
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Authors

Tanguy, M.
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1516-6834
Prudhomme, C.
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1722-2497
Smith, K.
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1060-9103
Hannaford, J.
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5256-3310

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Additional metadata

Topic categories
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
INSPIRE theme
Meteorological geographical features
Keywords
Drought catalogue , Drought inventory , Droughts , Historic Droughts , McGuinness-Bordne , Potential Evapotranspiration , Reconstructions , United Kingdom , Water scarcity
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03 June 2025 07:43