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Lewis, E., Quinn, N., Blenkinsop, S., Fowler, H.J., Freer, J., Tanguy, M., Hitt, O., Coxon, G., Bates, P., Woods, R., Fry, M., Chevuturi, A., Swain, O., White, S.M. (2022). Gridded estimates of hourly areal rainfall for Great Britain 1990-2016 [CEH-GEAR1hr] v2. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.5285/fc9423d6-3d54-467f-bb2b-fc7357a3941f
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Gridded estimates of hourly areal rainfall for Great Britain 1990-2016 [CEH-GEAR1hr] v2
The dataset also contains data indicating the distance between the grid point and the closest recording raingauge used in its interpolation. When this distance is greater than 50km, or there is zero rainfall recorded in the closest gauge, the daily value is disaggregated using a design storm. The dataset therefore also contains a flag indicating if the design storm was used. These data are provided as an indicator of the quality of the estimates.
Format
NetCDF
Spatial information
- Study area
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- Spatial representation type
- Raster
- Spatial reference system
- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
Temporal information
- Temporal extent
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1990-01-01 to 2016-12-31
Provenance & quality
A quality control protocol was established in order to identify and reject erroneous hourly values in the gauge rainfall input dataset. The quality control procedure is a three step process:
1) The gauge data is compared to the gridded CEH-GEAR daily dataset to identify suspect gauges
2) A series of quality control tests are applied to identify suspect values at all gauges which are marked with a quality control flag
3) Combinations of quality control flags for a given hourly accumulation are used to determine which flagged data are treated as erroneous values and thus excluded from the gauge records.
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This dataset is included in the following collections
Gridded estimates of daily and monthly areal rainfall for the United Kingdom (1890-2019) [CEH-GEAR]
Citations
Correspondence/contact details
Wallingford
Oxfordshire
OX10 8BB
UNITED KINGDOM
Authors
Other contacts
- Rights holder
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Natural Environment Research Council
- Custodian
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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centreinfo@eidc.ac.uk
- Publisher
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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centreinfo@eidc.ac.uk
Additional metadata
- Topic categories
- climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
environment - INSPIRE theme
- Meteorological geographical features
- Keywords
- CEH-GEAR , Climate and climate change , Gridded estimates of areal rainfall (GEAR) , subdaily rainfall
- Funding
- Natural Environment Research Council Award: NE/I006680/1
Natural Environment Research Council Award: NE/S017380/1
Natural Environment Research Council Award: NE/K00896X/1
European Research Council Award: ERC-2013-CoG-617329 - Last updated
- 28 May 2024 07:12
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This dataset is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence
CITE AS: Lewis, E.; Quinn, N.; Blenkinsop, S.; Fowler, H.J.; Freer, J.; Tanguy, M.; Hitt, O.; Coxon, G.; Bates, P.; Woods, R.; Fry, M.; Chevuturi, A.; Swain, O.; White, S.M. (2022). Gridded estimates of hourly areal rainfall for Great Britain 1990-2016 [CEH-GEAR1hr] v2. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/fc9423d6-3d54-467f-bb2b-fc7357a3941f
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