Identification

Title

Real-time Rainfall Data

Alternative title(s)

Automatic Raingauge Data

Abstract

This record is for Approval for Access product AfA501 for approximately 1000 automatic rainfall data from the Environment Agency rainfall API. The data is available on an update cycle which varies across the country, typically updated daily but updated faster is rainfall is detected. This is update frequency is usually increased during times of flooding, etc. Readings are transferred via telemetry to internal and external systems in or close to real-time. Measurement of the rainfall is taken in millimetres (mm) accumulated over 15 minutes. Note that rainfall data is recorded in GMT, so during British Summer Time (BST) data may appear to be an hour old. Data comes from a network of over 1000 gauges across England. Data shown is raw data collected from the gauges and is subject to quality control procedures. As a result, values may change after publication on this website. Continuous rainfall information is also stored on our hydrometric archive, Wiski, and can be provided in non real-time on request through our customer contact centre. This raw rainfall data is provided to the Met Office for quality control along with all the data from our registered daily storage gauges (c.1400). The quality controlled dataset is covered in AfA148 Quality Controlled Daily and Monthly Raingauge Data from Environment Agency Gauges. Data from a small selection of Met Office raingauges are included in our open data feed. This data is also available from the Met Office as open data. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2016. All rights reserved. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://environment.data.gov.uk/flood-monitoring/doc/rainfall

protocol: http:

name: Rainfall_Linked_Data_API

description: Rainfall Linked Data API

https://environment.data.gov.uk/flood-monitoring/archive

protocol: http:

name: Daily_Rainfall_Archive

description: Daily Rainfall Archive Data downloads

https://support.environment.data.gov.uk/hc/en-gb

protocol: http:

name: DSP_CUSTOMER_FORUM

description: DEFRA Data Services Platform Customer Forum

Unique resource identifier

code

c6628ca9-f9ff-4b78-81bd-51bdc645de0f

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

OpenData

Rainfall

Raingauge

Rain

Hydrometry

Monitoring

Keyword set

keyword value

telemetry

rain

hydrometry

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-6.236

East bounding longitude

2.072

North bounding latitude

55.816

South bounding latitude

49.943

Extent

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc/country/england

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2017-01-23

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2017-01-23

date type

revision

effective date

2021-03-12

Frequency of update

continual

Quality and validity

Lineage

Data is collected automatically from rainfall sensors throughout England. These are relayed by telemetry and available through the FWFI Hub as a live feed.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

OGC Web Services | JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)

version of format

Not Applicable

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Open Government Licence

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Constraint set

Use constraints

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2016. All rights reserved. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Environment Agency

email address

DSPcustomerforum@environment-agency.gov.uk

web address

https://support.environment.data.gov.uk/hc/en-gb

description: Defra Data Services Forum

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Environment Agency

email address

metadata@environment-agency.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2021-06-03

Metadata language

eng