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Gridded estimates of daily and monthly areal rainfall for the United Kingdom (1890-2019) [CEH-GEAR]
1 km gridded estimates of daily and monthly rainfall for Great-Britain and Northern Ireland (together with approximately 3000 km2 of catchment in the Republic of Ireland) from 1890 to 2019. The rainfall estimates are derived from the Met Office national database of observed precipitation. To derive the estimates, monthly and daily (when complete month available) precipitation totals from the UK rain gauge network are used. The natural neighbour interpolation methodology, including a normalisation step based on average annual rainfall, was used to generate the daily and monthly estimates. The estimated rainfall on a given day refers to the rainfall amount precipitated in 24 hours between 9am on that day until 9am on the following day. The CEH-GEAR dataset has been developed according to the guidance provided in BS 7843-4:2012. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/dbf13dd5-90cd-457a-a986-f2f9dd97e93c
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- Date (Publication)
- 2021-11-11
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/dbf13dd5-90cd-457a-a986-f2f9dd97e93c
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- doi: / 10.5285/dbf13dd5-90cd-457a-a986-f2f9dd97e93c
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Tanguy, M., Dixon, H., Prosdocimi, I., Morris, D.G., Keller, V.D.J. (2021). Gridded estimates of daily and monthly areal rainfall for the United Kingdom (1890-2019) [CEH-GEAR]. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/dbf13dd5-90cd-457a-a986-f2f9dd97e93c
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Tanguy, M. Point of contact UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Tanguy, M. Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Dixon, H. Author Ca' Foscari Venice University Prosdocimi, I. Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Morris, D.G.
Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Keller, V.D.J. Author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Owner
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- Annually
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The CEH-GEAR dataset is updated annually with rainfall estimates for each calendar year usually available around 11-12 months after year-end.
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© Database Right/Copyright UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. All rights reserved.
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Contains material based on Met Éireann data © Met Éireann and Met Office data © Crown copyright.
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Users should be aware that the quality of the rainfall data will decrease when the minimum distance (i.e. distance to the closest gauge) increases. The value of the minimum distance is provided alongside rainfall values within the dataset. For values of minimum distance greater than 100 km, rainfall values are not derived.
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Tanguy, M., Dixon, H., Prosdocimi, I., Morris, D.G., Keller, V.D.J. (2021). Gridded estimates of daily and monthly areal rainfall for the United Kingdom (1890-2019) [CEH-GEAR]. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/dbf13dd5-90cd-457a-a986-f2f9dd97e93c
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- Grid
- Distance
- 1000 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Language
- English
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- UTF8
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Begin date
- 1890-01-01
- End date
- 2019-12-31
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- Unique resource identifier
- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
- Reference system identifier
- OSNI 1952 / Irish National Grid
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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Protocol Linkage Name https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/datastore/eidchub/dbf13dd5-90cd-457a-a986-f2f9dd97e93c Download the data
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/dbf13dd5-90cd-457a-a986-f2f9dd97e93c.zip Supporting information
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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
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- 2010-12-08
- Statement
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The rainfall estimates are derived from the Met Office national database of observed precipitations. To derive the monthly estimates, monthly and daily (when complete month available) precipitation totals from the UK raingauge network are used. An additional quality control step (data already quality controlled by the Met Office) was introduced to check events greater than the 200 year return period. The natural neighbour interpolation methodology, including a normalisation step based on average annual rainfall (SAAR61-90), was used to generate the daily and monthly rainfall grids. The daily grids are adjusted so that the monthly totals calculated from those are in agreement with the monthly grids. As an indicator of the quality of the estimates, the dataset also contains for each grid generated a grid containing the distance to the closest raingauge used to interpolate the grid point. A grid containing the number of missing estimates for each year is also provided. The CEH-GEAR dataset has been developed according to the guidance provided in BS 7843-4:2012. This version of the CEH-GEAR dataset differs from the previous version (1890-2017) only by temporal coverage. That is, previous years' data have not been modified.
Metadata
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- dbf13dd5-90cd-457a-a986-f2f9dd97e93c XML
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- English
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- 8859 Part 1
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- Date stamp
- 2025-03-21T13:20:44
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Point of contact
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