HadISD: global sub-daily station data for climate extremes

HadISD is a station based dataset comprising 6103 stations covering 1973-present. These stations are a subset of the stations available in the Integrated Surface Database (ISD), and are ones selected to be those most useful for climate studies (long records and high reporting frequency). Individual stations within the ISD were composited when it was appropriate to do so to improve the coverage.

HadISD is a multi-variate dataset, where the following fields are available: temperature, dewpoint temperature, sea-level pressure, wind speed, wind direction and cloud data (total, low, mid and high levels). These variables are all quality controlled using an automatic suite of tests, the code for which is available on request. The QC tests were designed to remove bad data whilst keeping true extremes. A number of other variables are also carried through to the final NetCDF files, but have not been quality controlled (e.g. precipitation period, precipitation depth, sunshine duration).

Date (Publication): 2016-07-28T07:33:46

Date (Creation): 2016-07-28T07:33:46

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/f579035b3c954475922e4b13705a7669

Citation identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / f579035b3c954475922e4b13705a7669

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Met Office Hadley Centre (MOHC)		enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk	Author
Irish Climate and Research UnitS (ICARUS)		unknown	Author
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)		unknown	Author
National Centers for Environmental Information - NOAA (NCEI-NOAA)		unknown	Author
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Custodian
Unavailable	Dunn, Robert J. H.	Unavailable	Owner
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor
Unavailable	Dunn, Robert J. H.	Unavailable	pointofContact
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Update scope: Series

Keywords

HadOBS
HadISD
temperature
dew point
sea-level pressure
wind speed
wind direction
cloud data

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

Access constraints: Other restrictions

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Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Under the following licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/non-commercial-government-licence/version/2/, appropriate use of these data may fall under academic, policy and personal use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.

Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 1931-01-01T00:00:00

End date: 2024-12-31T23:59:59

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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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/f579035b3c954475922e4b13705a7669	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadisd/	HadISD Homepage

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/isd	Integrated Surface Database (ISD)

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://hadisd.blogspot.co.uk/	HadISD blog

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://twitter.com/metofficeHadOBS	Met Office HadOBS twitter feed

Hierarchy level: Series

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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: Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.

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Metadata language: English

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Hierarchy level: Series

Hierarchy level name: series

Date stamp: 2025-06-17T02:27:37

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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