Climatic Research Unit (CRU): Time-series (TS) datasets of variations in climate with variations in other phenomena v3

Time-series (TS) datasets are month-by-month variation in climate over the last century or so as produced by the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia. These are calculated on high-resolution (0.5x0.5 degree) grids, which are based on an archive of monthly mean temperatures provided by more than 4000 weather stations distributed around the world. They allow variations in climate to be studied, and include variables such as cloud cover, diurnal temperature range, frost day frequency, precipitation, daily mean temperature, monthly average daily maximum temperature, vapour pressure, Potential Evapo-transpiration and wet day frequency.

At present, the BADC holds the latest Time Series data generated by CRU for the period 1901-2017. Those are available as CRU TS 3.26 data. The BADC also holds the preliminary CRU TS3.00 datasets for the period 1901-2006 as well as the subsequent CRU TS 3.10, 3.20, 3.21, 3.22, 3.23, 3.24 and CRU TS 3.25 datasets for the period 1901-2016.

The CRU TS data are monthly gridded fields based on daily values -hence the ASCII and netcdf files both contain monthly mean values for the various parameters.

Date (Publication): 2008-12-10T03:19:13

Date (Creation): 2008-12-10T03:19:13

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/3f8944800cc48e1cbc29a5ee12d8542d

Citation identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 3f8944800cc48e1cbc29a5ee12d8542d

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit (CRU)		cru@uea.ac.uk	Author
University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit (CRU)		cru@uea.ac.uk	Author
Unavailable	Jones, Philip D.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Harris, Ian C	Unavailable	Author
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Custodian
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	pointofContact
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Update scope: Series

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atmospheric conditions

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: All data within this dataset collection are available to any registered CEDA user.

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: 1901-01-01T00:00:00

End date: 2017-12-31T23:59:59

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/3f8944800cc48e1cbc29a5ee12d8542d	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/hrg/	High-resolution gridded datasets webpage at CRU

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://help.ceda.ac.uk/article/4472-cru-data-user-guide	CRU User guide

Hierarchy level: Series

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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: Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.

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File identifier: 3f8944800cc48e1cbc29a5ee12d8542d XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Series

Hierarchy level name: series

Date stamp: 2025-06-17T02:27:16

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Point of contact

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