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Gridded estimates of daily and monthly areal rainfall for the United Kingdom (1890-2017) [CEH-GEAR]

Publisher
Environmental Information Data Centre
Updated
30 July 2026
Topic
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Summary

[THIS DATASET HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN]. 1 km gridded estimates of daily and monthly rainfall for Great-Britain and Northern Ireland (together with approximately 3000 km2 of catchment in the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 2017. 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/ee9ab43d-a4fe-4e73-afd5-cd4fc4c82556

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
25 July 2026
Harvest GUID
ee9ab43d-a4fe-4e73-afd5-cd4fc4c82556
Extent (Latitude)
60.861° to 49.864°
Extent (Longitude)
-8.648° to 1.768°
Spatial reference system
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
Dataset reference date (publication)
2019-05-16
Dataset reference date (creation)
2019-04-26
Frequency of update
annually
Access constraints
© Database Right/Copyright UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. All rights reserved.
Responsible party
(author, pointOfContact, publisher, owner, custodian)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng