3d20ce5a-9115-4ad3-a55c-d51d66863757 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:14:51 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 Dimensionless hyetographs and statistics of annual-maximum rainfall events in Great Britain, from historical rain gauge records 2023-12-20 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/3d20ce5a-9115-4ad3-a55c-d51d66863757 10.5285/3d20ce5a-9115-4ad3-a55c-d51d66863757 doi: Villalobos Herrera, R., Blenkinsop, S., Guerreiro, S.B., Dale, M., Faulkner, D., Fowler, H.J. (2023). Dimensionless hyetographs and statistics of annual-maximum rainfall events in Great Britain, from historical rain gauge records. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/3d20ce5a-9115-4ad3-a55c-d51d66863757 This dataset contains over 72,000 event hyetographs associated with rainstorms that contain Annual Maximum rainfall (AMAX) values for durations between 5-min and 24-hr for a set of ~1,300 rain gauges in Great Britain. The record length and completeness varies on a gauge-by-gauge basis, the median record length is 19 years and the processed record ends in 06/2018. Note that a rainstorm may have a different duration to the associated AMAX value, e.g., a 24-hr AMAX total may be caused by an 18.25-hr event. Further note that multiple AMAX totals may be embedded within a single rainstorm, e.g., Storm Desmond can be associated with the 2-, 3-, 6-, 12- and 24-hr AMAX totals for 2009 recorded at Honister Pass. Each hyetograph is accompanied by summary statistics corresponding to the underlying rainstorm and associated AMAX totals. This dataset enables the study of the temporal characteristics of rainfall as well as more general studies regarding the climatology of AMAX-causing events in GB. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/3d20ce5a-9115-4ad3-a55c-d51d66863757 Villalobos Herrera, R. Universidad de Costa Rica roberto.villalobosherrera@ucr.ac.cr https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0853-2285 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Blenkinsop, S. Newcastle University stephen.blenkinsop@newcastle.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0790-6545 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Guerreiro, S.B. Newcastle University selma.guerreiro@ncl.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7129-4219 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Dale, M. JBA Consulting Murray.Dale@jbaconsulting.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1062-5771 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Faulkner, D. JBA Consulting duncan.faulkner@jbaconsulting.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7471-7819 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Fowler, H.J. Newcastle University hayley.fowler@newcastle.ac.uk author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher Villalobos Herrera, R. Universidad de Costa Rica roberto.villalobosherrera@ucr.ac.cr https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0853-2285 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information owner Villalobos Herrera, R. Universidad de Costa Rica roberto.villalobosherrera@ucr.ac.cr https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0853-2285 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information pointOfContact Hydrography theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication rain atmospheric precipitation storm meteorology GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Climate and climate change Hydrology hyetograph extreme events storm profiles sub-daily rainfall otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Villalobos Herrera, R., Blenkinsop, S., Guerreiro, S.B., Dale, M., Faulkner, D., Fowler, H.J. (2023). Dimensionless hyetographs and statistics of annual-maximum rainfall events in Great Britain, from historical rain gauge records. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/3d20ce5a-9115-4ad3-a55c-d51d66863757 textTable 10 English utf8 climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere inlandWaters 2018-06-30 -8.648 1.768 49.864 60.861 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/3d20ce5a-9115-4ad3-a55c-d51d66863757 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/3d20ce5a-9115-4ad3-a55c-d51d66863757.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset 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 2010-12-08 Rainfall event hyetographs are derived from quality-controlled rain gauge observations with sub-hourly resolution collected by the England Environment Agency (EA), Natural Resources Wales (NRW) and the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA). Each hyetograph corresponds to an Annual Maximum rainfall (AMAX) event registered at each rain gauge for durations ranging from 5-min up to 24-hr. Multiple AMAX values with different durations may map onto a single hyetograph. The sub-hourly data was quality controlled prior to AMAX and hyetograph using methods derived for the QC of CEH-GEAR1hr and the Global Sub Daily Rainfall dataset (GSDR), as well as additional checks that leverage the sub-hourly nature of the dataset. AMAX rainfall totals for 5-, 10-, 15-, 30-min and 1-, 2-, 3-, 6-, 12-, 24-hr durations were calculated using rolling window sums. The event hyetograph for each AMAX total was then extracted from the original sub-hourly time series and converted to uniform duration series. The final dataset consists of the event time series, provided as cumulative rainfall hyetographs for each event, as well as event metadata including summary statistics and a list of associated AMAX totals.