Gridded estimates of daily and monthly areal rainfall for the United Kingdom (1890-2014) [CEH-GEAR]

https://doi.org/10.5285/f2856ee8-da6e-4b67-bedb-590520c77b3c

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THIS DATASET HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED The latest version is Gridded estimates of daily and monthly areal rainfall for the United Kingdom (1890-2019) [CEH-GEAR]

The updated version of the CEH-GEAR dataset adds additional years' data.

If you need access to the archived version, please contact the EIDC

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 2014. 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.

Publication date: 2015-09-25

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Format

netCDF

Spatial information

Study area

Spatial representation type

Raster

Spatial reference systems

OSNI 1952 / Irish National Grid
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
OSNI 1952

Temporal information

Temporal extent

1890-01-01 to 2014-12-31

Provenance & quality

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 (1890-2012) only by temporal coverage. That is, previous years' data have not been modified.

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THIS DATASET HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED The latest version is Gridded estimates of daily and monthly areal rainfall for the United Kingdom (1890-2019) [CEH-GEAR]

The updated version of the CEH-GEAR dataset adds additional years' data.

If you need access to the archived version, please contact the EIDC

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Cite this dataset as:

Tanguy, M.; Dixon, H.; Prosdocimi, I.; Morris, D.G.; Keller, V.D.J. (2015). Gridded estimates of daily and monthly areal rainfall for the United Kingdom (1890-2014) [CEH-GEAR]. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/f2856ee8-da6e-4b67-bedb-590520c77b3c

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Guillod, B.P., Jones, R.G., Dadson, S.J., Coxon, G., Bussi, G., Freer, J., … Hall, J. W. (2018). A large set of potential past, present and future hydro-meteorological time series for the UK. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 22(1), 611–634. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-611-2018

Keller, V. D. J., Tanguy, M., Prosdocimi, I., Terry, J. A., Hitt, O., Cole, S. J., Fry, M., Morris, D. G., & Dixon, H. (2015). CEH-GEAR: 1 km resolution daily and monthly areal rainfall estimates for the UK for hydrological and other applications. Earth System Science Data, 7(1), 143–155. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-7-143-2015

Kay, A.L., Booth, N., Lamb, R., Raven, E., Schaller, N., & Sparrow, S. (2018). Flood event attribution and damage estimation using national-scale grid-based modelling: Winter 2013/2014 in Great Britain. International Journal of Climatology, 38(14), 5205–5219. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.5721

Pearman, D. A. (2017). The population dynamics of rare annual plants on the Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, UK, 2009–2016. New Journal of Botany, 7(1), 11–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/20423489.2017.1344043

Marchant, B.P., & Bloomfield, J.P. (2018). Spatio-temporal modelling of the status of groundwater droughts. Journal of Hydrology, 564, 397–413. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.07.009

Guillod, B., Jones, R.G., Dadson, S.J., et al. (2018) A large set of potential past, present and future hydro-meteorological time series for the UK. ETH Zurich https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000239029