UKCP09: Met Office regional land surface climate observations - long term averages for administrative regions and river basins

This dataset contains a set of reference long term averages for observed climate variables that have been spatially averaged over a set of 14 administrative regions and 23 river basins across the British Isles (see links to maps and lists below). Where possible, reference climatologies for each of the periods 1961-1990, 1971-2000 and 1981-2010 are available for each variable. The availability of a variable for a given reference period was dependant on sufficient data for that variable within the reference period. Each regional value is an average of the 5km x 5km grid cell values that fall within it.

The data were derived from the Met Office gridded land surface climate observations – long term averages at 5km resolution (See related dataset) and are provided as space delimited text files.

The 14 administrative regions used within UKCP09 were:

- East Midlands

- East of England

- East Scotland

- London

- North East England

- North Scotland

- North West England

- Northern Ireland

- South East England

- South West England

- Wales

- West Midlands

- West Scotland

- Yorkshire & The Humber

The 23 river basin regions used within UKCP09 were:

- Anglian

- Argyll

- Clyde

- Dee

- Forth

- Humber

- Neagh Bann

- North East Scotland

- North Eastern Ireland

- North Highland

- North West England

- North Western Ireland

- Northumbria

- Orkney and Shetland

- Severn

- Solway

- South East England

- South West England

- Tay

- Thames

- Tweed

- West Highland

- Western Wales

Date (Publication): 2017-08-21T11:41:06

Date (Creation): 2017-08-21T11:41:06

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/51132aea5ed0433ca338d32a912e3976

Citation identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 51132aea5ed0433ca338d32a912e3976

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
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

UKCP09
Met Office
DEFRA
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: 1961-01-01T00:00:00

End date: 2010-12-31T23:59:59

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Name	Version
Data are provided in the original ASCII format used within the UKCP09 project. Please see linked documentation for further details.

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/51132aea5ed0433ca338d32a912e3976	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

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

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

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climatechange/science/monitoring/ukcp09/methods.html	UKCP09 gridded observations methodology description

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/content/assets/mohippo/pdf/uk-climate/uk-cp/admin_regions.pdf	Map of administrative regions used within UKCP09

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/content/assets/mohippo/pdf/uk-climate/uk-cp/river_regions.pdf	Map of river basin regions used within UKCP09

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).

Metadata

File identifier: 51132aea5ed0433ca338d32a912e3976 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Parent identifier: UKCP09: Met Office gridded and regional land surface climate observation datasets
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Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2025-12-04T03:05:36

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Metadata author

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

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