UKCP09: Met Office gridded land surface climate observations - daily temperature and precipitation at 5km resolution

This dataset contains a set of daily observations of temperature (daily maximum, daily minimum and daily mean temperature) and rainfall (24 hour accumulation) interpolated to a uniform 5km grid resolution covering the period 1960 to 2014.

The input station data originate from the Met Office Integrated Data Archive System - MIDAS - a database at the Met Office of observation station data stretching back to the 18th century. (A version of MIDAS is also available through CEDA, although incremental developments to the database such as quality control and data recovery activities may result in some differences compared to the database at the time of production of the UKCP09 data - see linked datasets for access to these equivalent datasets held by CEDA).

The input station data used provide observations relating to periods 0900 to 0900 UTC, so the gridded output stored against day "dd" are as follows:

• Maximum temperature between 0900 on day dd and 0900 on day dd+1 (normally expect to occur during the afternoon of day dd)

• Minimum temperature between 0900 on day dd-1 and 0900 on day dd (normally expect to occur just before dawn on day dd)

• Mean temperature that is the average of the maximum and minimum temperature

• Rainfall (or rainfall equivalent in cases of frozen precipitation) amount between 0900 day dd and 0900 day dd+1

The gridding process accounts for effects such as latitude, longitude, altitude, coastal influence, and the effect of urban land through the use of normalisation with respect to monthly 1961 – 1990 climate normals, and in the case of temperature, a regression model.

The data are provide in CF-1.5 compliant NetCDF format. The data are additionally provided in ESRI-ascii format, suitable for ingestion in GIS applications, and a simple timeseries format for users requiring a limited number of points.

Date (Publication): 2017-08-21T11:10:21

Date (Creation): 2017-08-21T11:10:21

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/319b3f878c7d4cbfbdb356e19d8061d6

Citation identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 319b3f878c7d4cbfbdb356e19d8061d6

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Met Office		enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk	Author
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Custodian
Met Office		enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk	Owner
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor
Unavailable	Hollis, Dan	Unavailable	Principal investigator
Unavailable	Perry, Matthew	Unavailable	Principal investigator
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	pointofContact
Met Office		enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk	pointofContact
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

UKCP09
Met Office
land surface
climate observations

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Under the following licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.

Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 1910-01-01T00:00:00

End date: 2016-12-31T23:59:59

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Name	Version
The data are provide in CF-1.5 compliant NetCDF format. The data are additionally provided in ESRI-ascii format, suitable for ingestion in GIS applications, and a simple timeseries format for users requiring a limited number of points.

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/319b3f878c7d4cbfbdb356e19d8061d6	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ukcp09/data/gridded-land-obs/gridded-land-obs-daily	DOWNLOAD

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climatechange/science/monitoring/ukcp09/methods.html	Description of the UKCP09 gridded land surface climate observations production methodology

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/data/ukcp09/data-formats	Description of the UKCP09 gridded land surface climate observations data formats

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/data/ukcp09/datasets	Description of UKCP09 gridded land surface climate observations variables

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/data/ukcp09/faq	FAQ page for UKCP09 gridded land surface climate observations

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Statement: Data were produced by the Met Office for the UKCP09 service and then prepared for archiving with Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA).