Meteorological Office Rainfall and Evaporation Calculation System (MORECS version 2.0)

Evaporation and soil moisture deficit for the UK calculated by MO using meteorological observations. The output can be for a single site or as averaged over 40 x 40 km grid which cover the UK. The data can be supplied at daily, weekly or monthly time resolution.

Format

comma-separated values (csv)

Spatial information

Study area
Spatial representation type: Tabular (text)
Spatial reference systems: OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
TM65 / Irish National Grid

Temporal information

Temporal extent: 1961-01-01 to …

Provenance & quality

MORECS evapotranspiration and soil moisture deficit is calculated from daily values of hours of sunshine, air temperature, vapour pressure, wind speed and rainfall. For further details see Hough and Jones (1997). For further details see [1]

[1] Hough, M. N. and Jones, R. J. A.: The United Kingdom Meteorological Office rainfall and evaporation calculation system: MORECS version 2.0-an overview, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 1, 227-239, doi:10.5194/hess-1-227-1997, 1997.

Correspondence/contact details

CaMMP Project Office

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Environment Centre Wales, Deiniol Road
Bangor
Gwynedd
LL57 2UW
UNITED KINGDOM

info@cammp.org.uk

Author

Met Office

Additional metadata

Topic categories: climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Keywords: Climate Scenarios , Geospatial / Map , National , Tabular , Time Series , Weather
Last updated: 08 December 2020 09:48