UKCP09: Met Office gridded land surface climate observations - long term averages at 25km resolution

This dataset contains a set of reference long term averages for observed climate variables on an approximately 25km resolution grid. This matches the resolution of the HadRM3 regional climate model and the UKCP09 climate projections. These data represent the baseline reference climate averages for the period 1961 – 1990.

The data were derived from the Met Office gridded land surface climate observations – long term averages at 5km resolution (see related dataset). Each 25 x 25km grid box value is an average of the 5 x 5 km grid cell values that fall within it. Averages have been calculated for each month, season and the year as a whole (17 data sets). For the days of frost and days of rain variables the seasonal and annual averages are the total of the individual monthly averages. For the remaining variables the seasonal and annual averages are the mean of the monthly averages (allowing for differences in month length). To facilitate combining the baseline data with the UKCP09 climate projections, the 25 km baseline averages for rainfall have been expressed in units of millimetres per day (rather than total millimetres, as for the 5 km data sets).

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): 2017-08-21T11:28:49

Date (Creation): 2017-08-21T11:28:49

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/a7e005b4bdd54977aa54251f5f491801

Citation identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / a7e005b4bdd54977aa54251f5f491801

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
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: 1990-12-31T23:59:59

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/a7e005b4bdd54977aa54251f5f491801	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ukcp09/data/gridded-land-obs/gridded-land-obs-averages-25km	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).