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Climate hydrology and ecology research support system meteorology dataset for Great Britain (1961-2017) [CHESS-met]

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Environmental Information Data Centre
Updated
4 September 2026
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Summary

[THIS DATASET HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN]. Gridded daily meteorological variables over Great Britain for the years 1961-2017 at 1 km resolution. This dataset contains time series of daily mean values of air temperature (K), specific humidity (kg kg-1), wind speed (m s-1), downward longwave radiation (W m-2), downward shortwave radiation (W m-2), precipitation (kg m-2 s-2) and air pressure (Pa), plus daily temperature range (K). These are the variables required to run the JULES land surface model with daily disaggregation. The data are provided in gridded netCDF files. There is one file for each variable for each month of the data set. This data set supersedes the previous version as temporal coverage has been extended to include the years 2016-2017 and the netCDF metadata has been updated and improved. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/2ab15bf0-ad08-415c-ba64-831168be7293

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
04 September 2026
Harvest GUID
2ab15bf0-ad08-415c-ba64-831168be7293
Extent (Latitude)
60.861° to 49.864°
Extent (Longitude)
-8.648° to 1.768°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2020-06-19
Frequency of update
irregular
Access constraints
The following acknowledgement and copyright notice (where applicable), shall, unless otherwise stated, be used on all copies of the Data, publications and reports, including but not limited to, use in presentations to any audience: "Climate hydrology and ecology research support system meteorology dataset for Great Britain (1961-2017) [CHESS-met] data licensed from UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. © Database Right/Copyright UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. All rights reserved. Contains material based on Met Éireann data © Met Éireann, Met Office and OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2017 and University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit © CRU"
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(author, pointOfContact, publisher, owner, custodian); Unaffiliated (author)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng

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