HadUK-Grid Gridded Climate Observations on a 60km grid over the UK, v1.0.2.1 (1862-2019)

HadUK-Grid is a collection of gridded 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 dataset at 60 km resolution is derived from the associated 1 km x 1 km resolution to allow for comparison to data from UKCP18 climate projections. The dataset spans the period from 1862 to 2019, but the start time is dependent on climate variable and temporal resolution.

The gridded data are produced for daily, monthly, seasonal and annual timescales, as well as long term averages for a set of climatological reference periods. Variables include air temperature (maximum, minimum and mean), precipitation, sunshine, mean sea level pressure, wind speed, relative humidity, vapour pressure, days of snow lying, and days of ground frost.

This data set supersedes the previous versions of this dataset which also superseded UKCP09 gridded observations. Subsequent versions may be released in due course and will follow the version numbering as outlined by Hollis et al. (2018, see linked documentation).

For this version of note is that historical data recovery has improved monthly rainfall 1862-1910, daily rainfall 1883-1910, monthly temperature 1900-1909, and additional sunshine grids for 1919-1928 have been added.

The primary purpose of these data are to facilitate monitoring of UK climate and research into climate change, impacts and adaptation. The datasets have been created by the Met Office with financial support from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) in order to support the Public Weather Service Customer Group (PWSCG), the Hadley Centre Climate Programme, and the UK Climate Projections (UKCP18) project. The data recovery activity to supplement 19th and early 20th Century data availability has also been funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC grant ref: NE/L01016X/1) project "Analysis of historic drought and water scarcity in the UK". The dataset is provided under Open Government Licence.

Date (Publication): 2020-10-19T11:50:53

Date (Creation): 2020-10-19T11:50:53

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/df33c78736a44019b8ceb20ab440cae1

Citation identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / df33c78736a44019b8ceb20ab440cae1

Citation identifier: doi / 10.5285/df33c78736a44019b8ceb20ab440cae1

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
Unavailable	Kendon, Michael	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Legg, Tim	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Simpson, Ian	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
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

Met Office
UKCP18
BEIS
Defra
land surface
climate observations
hadobs

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

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Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

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Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 1862-01-01T00:00:00

End date: 2019-12-31T23:59:59

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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Data are NetCDF formatted.

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/df33c78736a44019b8ceb20ab440cae1	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ukmo-hadobs/data/insitu/MOHC/HadOBS/HadUK-Grid/v1.0.2.1/60km	DOWNLOAD

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/data/haduk-grid/haduk-grid	Met Office documentation on HadUK-Grid data

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://doi.org/10.1002/gdj3.78	Hollis, D, McCarthy, MP, Kendon, M, Legg, T, Simpson, I. HadUK‐Grid—A new UK dataset of gridded climate observations. Geosci Data J. 2019; 00: 1– 9. https://doi.org/10.1002/gdj3.78

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://dap.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ukmo-hadobs/data/insitu/MOHC/HadOBS/HadUK-Grid/v1.0.2.1/HadUK-Grid_change_log_summary.txt	HadUK-Grid Summary Change Log (upto version v1.0.2.1) detailing changes to available data and processing

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://dap.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ukmo-hadobs/data/insitu/MOHC/HadOBS/HadUK-Grid/v1.0.2.1/HadUK-Grid_v1.0.2.1_change_log.txt	HadUK-Grid v1.0.2.1 change log - new file lists of new files and file number totals for deleted, changed and adjusted files

Hierarchy level: Dataset

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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 provided by the UK Met Office for archiving in the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) archives.

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Metadata language: English

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Parent identifier: HadUK-Grid gridded and regional average climate observations for the UK
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Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2025-11-16T03:21:09

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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