Date (Publication)

2015-11-12

Date (Creation)

2015-09-24

Citation identifier

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/d329f4d6-95ba-4134-b77a-a377e0755653

Citation identifier

doi: / 10.5285/d329f4d6-95ba-4134-b77a-a377e0755653

Other citation details

Robinson, E.L., Blyth, E., Clark, D.B., Finch, J., Rudd, A.C. (2015). Climate hydrology and ecology research support system potential evapotranspiration dataset for Great Britain (1961-2012) [CHESS-PE]. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/d329f4d6-95ba-4134-b77a-a377e0755653

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	Robinson, E.	enquiries@ceh.ac.uk	Point of contact
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	Robinson, E.L.	enquiries@ceh.ac.uk	Author
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	Blyth, E.	enquiries@ceh.ac.uk	Author
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	Clark, D.B.	enquiries@ceh.ac.uk	Author
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	Finch, J.	enquiries@ceh.ac.uk	Author
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	Rudd, A.C.	enquiries@ceh.ac.uk	Author
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre		info@eidc.ac.uk	Custodian
NERC Environmental Information Data Centre		info@eidc.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency

As needed

Maintenance note

Data will be added a year at a time as the input data become available.

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Meteorological geographical features

GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3

• transpiration
• evapotranspiration
• evaporation

Keywords

• Climate and climate change
• Modelling

• gridded data

• interception

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

Superseded

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

Licence terms and conditions apply

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

If you reuse this data, you should cite: Robinson, E.L., Blyth, E., Clark, D.B., Finch, J., Rudd, A.C. (2015). Climate hydrology and ecology research support system potential evapotranspiration dataset for Great Britain (1961-2012) [CHESS-PE]. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/d329f4d6-95ba-4134-b77a-a377e0755653

Spatial representation type

Grid

Distance

1000  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001

Language

English

Character set

UTF8

Topic category

• Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date

1961-01-01

End date

2012-12-31

Unique resource identifier

OSGB 1936 / British National Grid

Distribution format

Name	Version
netCDF	4

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre		info@eidc.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/d329f4d6-95ba-4134-b77a-a377e0755653.zip	Supporting information

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Other

dataset

Statement

The PET (mm/day) was calculated by applying the Penman-Monteith equation [1] for a well-watered grass surface [2] to the air temperature, specific humidity, downward long- and shortwave radiation and surface air pressure from the Climate hydrology and ecology research support system meteorology dataset (CHESS-met) [3]. To calculate PETI (mm/day) an interception correction is applied on days with non-zero rainfall, by interpolating between PET and potential interception assuming an exponential dry-down. On dry days the PETI is equal to the PET. The PETI is calculated using all of the same input variables as the PET, as well as the precipitation from the CHESS-met dataset, which is the CEH-Gridded Estimates of Areal Rainfall (CEH-GEAR) daily rainfall estimates [4,5] scaled to units of kg m-2 s-1. The PET and PETI data were created using software developed in python. For further detail see the Supporting Documentation. [1] Monteith, J. L.: Evaporation and environment, in: 19th Symposia of the Society for Experimental Biology, University Press, Cambridge, 1965 [2] Allen, R. G., Pereira, L. S., Raes, D., and Smith, M.: Crop evapotranspiration - Guidelines for computing crop water requirements, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy, FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper, 1998. [3] Robinson, E. L., Blyth, E., Clark, D. B., Finch, J., Rudd, A. C. (2015). Climate hydrology and ecology research support system meteorological dataset (1961-2012) [CHESS-met] . NERC-Environmental Information Data Centre doi:10.5285/80887755-1426-4dab-a4a6-250919d5020c [4] Tanguy, M., Dixon, H., Prosdocimi, I., Morris, D. G., Keller, V. D. J. (2014). Gridded estimates of daily and monthly areal rainfall for the United Kingdom (1890-2012) [CEH-GEAR]. NERC-Environmental Information Data Centre doi:10.5285/5dc179dc-f692-49ba-9326-a6893a503f6e [5] Keller,V. D. J., Tanguy, M. , Prosdocimi, I. , Terry, J. A. , Hitt, O., Cole, S. J. , Fry, M., Morris, D. G., Dixon, H. (2015) CEH-GEAR: 1km resolution daily and monthly areal rainfall estimates for the UK for hydrological use. Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss., 8, 83-112 doi:10.5194/essdd-8-83-2015.

Metadata

File identifier

d329f4d6-95ba-4134-b77a-a377e0755653 XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

8859 Part 1

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Hierarchy level name

dataset

Date stamp

2026-02-06T14:01:33

Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.3

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre		info@eidc.ac.uk	Point of contact