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CRU TS4.00: Climatic Research Unit (CRU) Time-Series (TS) version 4.00 of high-resolution gridded data of month-by-month variation in climate (Jan. 1901- Dec. 2015)
The gridded Climatic Research Unit (CRU) Time-series (TS) data version 4.00 data are month-by-month variations in climate over the period 1901-2015, provided on high-resolution (0.5x0.5 degree) grids, produced by CRU at the University of East Anglia.
The CRU TS4.00 variables are cloud cover, diurnal temperature range, frost day frequency, potential evapotranspiration (PET), precipitation, daily mean temperature, monthly average daily maximum and minimum temperature, and vapour pressure for the period January 1901 - December 2015.
The CRU TS4.00 data were produced using angular-distance weighting (ADW) interpolation. All version 3 releases used triangulation routines in IDL. Please see the release notes for full details of this version update. CRU TS4.00 is a full release, differing only in methodology from the existing current release, v3.24.01. Both are released concurrently to support comparative evaluations between these two versions.
The CRU TS4.00 data are monthly gridded fields based on monthly observational data calculated from daily or sub-daily data by National Meteorological Services and other external agents. The ASCII and NetCDF data files both contain monthly mean values for the various parameters. The NetCDF versions contain an additional variable, ’stn’, which provides, for each datum in the main variable, a count (between 0 and 8) of the number of stations used in that interpolation.
All CRU TS output files are actual values - NOT anomalies.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2017-04-07T09:09:58
- Date (Creation)
- 2017-04-07T09:09:58
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/edf8febfdaad48abb2cbaf7d7e846a86
- Citation identifier
- Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / edf8febfdaad48abb2cbaf7d7e846a86
- Citation identifier
- doi / http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/edf8febfdaad48abb2cbaf7d7e846a86
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit (CRU)
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Harris, Ian C
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Jones, Philip D.
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Author Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Custodian University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit (CRU)
Owner Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Distributor Unavailable
Harris, Ian C
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Principal investigator Unavailable
Jones, Philip D.
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Principal investigator Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
pointofContact Unavailable
Harris, Ian C
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pointofContact Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Publisher
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
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- Dataset
- Keywords
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CRU
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CRU TS
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atmosphere
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earth science
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climate
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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atmospheric conditions
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- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Access to these data is available to any registered CEDA user. Please Login or Register for a CEDA account to gain access.
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Language
- English
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 1901-01-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 2015-12-31T23:59:59
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
- Distribution format
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Name Version Data are provided in ASCII and NetCDF formats.
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Distributor
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/edf8febfdaad48abb2cbaf7d7e846a86 CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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Protocol Linkage Name http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/cru/data/cru_ts/cru_ts_4.00 DOWNLOAD
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Protocol Linkage Name http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/data/ Climate Research Unit (CRU) data Homepage
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Protocol Linkage Name http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/cru/data/cru_ts/cru_ts_4.00/Release_Notes_CRU_TS4.00.txt CRU TS 4.00 Release Notes
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Protocol Linkage Name https://crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/hrg/cru_ts_4.00/ge/ CRU TS Version 4.00 Google Earth Interface
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Protocol Linkage Name http://help.ceda.ac.uk/article/4472-cru-data-user-guide CRU User Guide
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Protocol Linkage Name http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/cru/doc/File_Format_CRU_TS_v4.pdf CRU TS 4.00 file formats guide
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Protocol Linkage Name https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0453-3 Harris, I., Osborn, T.J., Jones, P. et al. Version 4 of the CRU TS monthly high-resolution gridded multivariate climate dataset. Sci Data 7, 109 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0453-3
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Protocol Linkage Name https://crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/hrg/v4announcement.htm Publication of version 4 of the CRU TS monthly high-resolution gridded climate dataset
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- Dataset
Conformance result
- Title
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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
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
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The CRU TS data are produced by the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia and are passed to the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) for long-term archival and distribution. Previous releases of the CRU TS data include:
CRU TS 4.00 was provided to CEDA for archival in March 2017.
CRU TS 3.24.01 was provided to CEDA for archival in January 2017. This is the latest version available and is a replacement of the withdrawn dataset 3.24, it supersedes all previous data versions (which are available to allow user comparisons)
CRU TS 3.24 was provided to CEDA for archival in July 2016. This is the latest version available, superseding all previous data versions (which are available to allow user comparisons), v3.24 has been withdrawn.
CRU TS 3.23 was provided to CEDA in October 2015 by CRU. This is the latest version available, superseding all previous data versions (which are available to allow user comparisons).
CRU TS 3.22 was provided to CEDA for archival in July 2014 by CRU.
CRU TS 3.21 was provided to CEDA for archival in July 2013 by CRU.
CRU TS 3.20 was produced in December 2012.
In March 2013, CRU TS observation databases for TMP and PRE variables were provided by CRU. Others are in preparation. In july 2013, two errors were found in the PRE and WET variables of CRU TS v3.20. These have been repaired in CRU TS v3.21. Details of the errors found are available in the Release Notes in the archive.
CRU TS 3.10.01 In July 2012, systematic errors were discovered in the CRUTS v3.10 process. The effect was, in some cases, to reduce the gridded values for PRE and therefore WET. Values of FRS were found to be unrealistic in some areas due to the algorithms used for synthetic generation. The files (pre, frs and wet) were immediately removed from BADC. The corrected run for precipitation, based on the v3.10 precipitation station data, was generated as a direct replacement and given the version number 3.10.01. There were no corrected runs produced for wet and frs.
CRU TS 3.00 data files acquired directly from CRU in 2007. CRU provided the BADC with software to generate the CRU datasets in 2010, and this was used to produce CRU TS 3.10 at the BADC in early 2011.
Metadata
- File identifier
- edf8febfdaad48abb2cbaf7d7e846a86 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Parent identifier
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Climatic Research Unit (CRU): Time-series (TS) datasets of variations in climate with variations in other phenomena v4
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- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-06-18T02:11:00
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
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