Robinson, E.L.; Blyth, E.M.; Clark, D.B.; Comyn-Platt, E.; Rudd, A.C.

Climate hydrology and ecology research support system meteorology dataset for Great Britain (1961-2017) [CHESS-met]

https://doi.org/10.5285/2ab15bf0-ad08-415c-ba64-831168be7293 Cite this dataset

This is the most recent version of this dataset

Gridded daily meteorological variables over Great Britain for the years 1961-2017 at 1 km resolution. This dataset contains time series of daily mean values of air temperature (K), specific humidity (kg kg-1), wind speed (m s-1), downward longwave radiation (W m-2), downward shortwave radiation (W m-2), precipitation (kg m-2 s-2) and air pressure (Pa), plus daily temperature range (K). These are the variables required to run the JULES land surface model with daily disaggregation.

The data are provided in gridded netCDF files. There is one file for each variable for each month of the data set.

This data set supersedes the previous version as temporal coverage has been extended to include the years 2016-2017 and the netCDF metadata has been updated and improved.

Publication date: 2020-06-19

Format

NetCDF

Spatial information

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

Temporal information

Temporal extent: 1961-01-01 to 2017-12-31

Provenance & quality

This data set has been generated from a number of meteorological input data sets. The precipitation data were obtained by scaling the CEH-GEAR daily rainfall estimates to the units required for JULES input. Other variables were interpolated from coarser resolution MORECS, CRU TS and WATCH forcing data variables, taking into account topographic information. A full list of input data sources and a description of the methodology are available in the supporting documentation.

Services associated with this dataset

Daily estimates for meteorological and potential evapotranspiration variables (CHESS) and soil moisture estimates (JULES) at COSMOS-UK sites, 2013-2017

Estimates of daily river flows for 95 catchments in Great Britain from the GR6J model under present and future climate scenarios, using large ensemble climate model driving data

This dataset is included in the following collections

Climate hydrology and ecology research support system [CHESS]

Citations

Kay, A.L., Rudd, A.C., & Coulson, J. (2023). Spatial downscaling of precipitation for hydrological modelling: Assessing a simple method and its application under climate change in Britain. In Hydrological Processes (Vol. 37, Issue 2). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14823

Chan, W.C.H., Shepherd, T.G., Facer-Childs, K., Darch, G., & Arnell, N.W. (2022). Storylines of UK drought based on the 2010-2012 event. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 26(7), 1755-1777. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-1755-2022

Argles, A.P.K., Robertson, E., Harper, A.B., et al. (2023) Modelling the impact of forest management and CO2-fertilisation on growth and demography in a Sitka spruce plantation. Scientific Reports 13. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-39810-2

Supplemental information

Trends in atmospheric evaporative demand in Great Britain using high-resolution meteorological data

This article cites a superseded version of this dataset.

Trends in evapotranspiration and its drivers in Great Britain: 1961 to 2015

This article cites a superseded version of this dataset.