dbf13dd5-90cd-457a-a986-f2f9dd97e93c English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:26:14 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid OSNI 1952 / Irish National Grid Gridded estimates of daily and monthly areal rainfall for the United Kingdom (1890-2019) [CEH-GEAR] 2021-11-11 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/dbf13dd5-90cd-457a-a986-f2f9dd97e93c 10.5285/dbf13dd5-90cd-457a-a986-f2f9dd97e93c doi: 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 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 Tanguy, M. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1516-6834 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information pointOfContact Tanguy, M. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1516-6834 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Dixon, H. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7415-063X ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Prosdocimi, I. Ca' Foscari University of Venice ilaria.prosdocimi@unive.it https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8565-094X ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Morris, D.G. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Keller, V.D.J. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4489-5363 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk owner annually The CEH-GEAR dataset is updated annually with rainfall estimates for each calendar year usually available around 11-12 months after year-end. Meteorological geographical features theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication United Kingdom GeoNames 2006-01-01 creation Climate and climate change rainfall CEH-GEAR otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions © Database Right/Copyright UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. All rights reserved. otherRestrictions Contains material based on Met Éireann data © Met Éireann and Met Office data © Crown copyright. otherRestrictions 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. otherRestrictions 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 grid 1000 English utf8 climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere 1890-01-01 2019-12-31 -8.648 1.768 49.864 60.861 NetCDF 4 NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/datastore/eidchub/dbf13dd5-90cd-457a-a986-f2f9dd97e93c Download the data Download a copy of this data fileAccess https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/dbf13dd5-90cd-457a-a986-f2f9dd97e93c.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset 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 2010-12-08 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.