UKCP09: Met Office gridded and regional land surface climate observation datasets

This collection contains datasets of climate variables derived from the network of UK land surface observations. The data have been interpolated from meteorological station data onto a uniform grid to provide complete and consistent coverage across the UK. The data sets cover the UK at 5 x 5 km resolution and span the period 1910 - 2015. They are available at daily, monthly and annual timescales, as well as long-term averages for the periods 1961 - 1990, 1971 - 2000, and 1981 - 2010. Baseline averages are also available at 25 x 25 km resolution to match the UKCP09 climate change projections.

The primary purpose of this data resource is to encourage and facilitate research into climate change impacts and adaptation. The datasets have been created by the Met Office with financial support from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and are promoted within the UK Climate Projections (UKCP09). The UKCP09 report The climate of the UK and recent trends uses these gridded data sets to describe UK climatoloagies and regional trends.

Date (Publication): 2017-08-21T10:48:26

Date (Creation): 2017-08-21T10:48:26

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/87f43af9d02e42f483351d79b3d6162a

Citation identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 87f43af9d02e42f483351d79b3d6162a

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Met Office		enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk	Author
Unavailable	Hollis, Dan	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	McCarthy, Mark	Unavailable	Author
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Custodian
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor
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: Unknown

Update scope: Series

Keywords

UKCP09
Met Office
DEFRA
Climate
Observations
Historical
Climatology

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Please contact the data centre for assistance on accessing data from this dataset collection.

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

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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/87f43af9d02e42f483351d79b3d6162a	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://ukclimateprojections.metoffice.gov.uk/	UK Climate Projections (UKCP09) website

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://ukclimateprojections.metoffice.gov.uk/22530	UKCP09 Report: The climate of the UK and recent trends

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/joc.1161/abstract	The generation of monthly gridded datasets for a range of climatic variables over the UK

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/joc.1160/abstract	The development of a new set of long-term climate averages for the UK

Hierarchy level: Series

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

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File identifier: 87f43af9d02e42f483351d79b3d6162a XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Series

Hierarchy level name: series

Date stamp: 2025-06-27T02:29:28

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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