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Water, carbon and energy fluxes simulation for Great Britain using the JULES Land Surface Model and the Climate Hydrology and Ecology research Support System meteorology dataset (1961-2015) [CHESS-land]

Publisher
Environmental Information Data Centre
Updated
30 July 2026
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Summary

The dataset contains daily and monthly surface water, energy and carbon fluxes, and state variables for Great Britain over the period between 1961 and 2015. The data was obtained from a 55 years simulation with the JULES Land Surface Model, at 1 km spatial resolution and driven by the meteorological dataset CHESS-met v1.2 (Robinson et al., 2017; https://doi.org/10.5285/b745e7b1-626c-4ccc-ac27-56582e77b900). The data comes in both monthly (all variables) and daily (only variables with no z dimension) averages. The variables are: total evapotranspiration and components (kg m-2 s-1), runoff (kg m-2 s-1), surface temperature (K), soil moisture (kg m-2), soil temperature (K), snow mass (kg m-2). latent and sensible heat (W m-2), net and gross primary productivities (kg C m-2 s-1), plant respiration (kg C m-2 s-1). The z dimension may refer, if present, to tile (surface type), pft (plant functional type) or soil (soil layer). This simulation forms the basis for new research paper by Blyth et al (2017, under review). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/c76096d6-45d4-4a69-a310-4c67f8dcf096

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
25 July 2026
Harvest GUID
c76096d6-45d4-4a69-a310-4c67f8dcf096
Extent (Latitude)
59.462° to 49.179°
Extent (Longitude)
-8.384° to 2.383°
Spatial reference system
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
Dataset reference date (publication)
2018-01-26
Dataset reference date (creation)
2018-01-18
Frequency of update
asNeeded
Access constraints
If you reuse this data, you should cite: Martinez de la Torre, A., Blyth, E.M., Robinson, E.L. (2018). Water, carbon and energy fluxes simulation for Great Britain using the JULES Land Surface Model and the Climate Hydrology and Ecology research Support System meteorology dataset (1961-2015) [CHESS-land]. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/c76096d6-45d4-4a69-a310-4c67f8dcf096
Responsible party
(author, pointOfContact, publisher, custodian)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng