HydEF (Hydrological extremes and feedbacks in the changing water cycle) project: Thames catchment daily weather data (NERC grant NE/I006656/1)

This is a daily weather dataset that was produced to support hydrological modelling of the Thames catchment including use of the JULES land surface model https://jules.jchmr.org/ . It contains daily values of each of seven weather variables: air pressure, precipitation, wind speed, air temperature, wet bulb temperature, short wave radiation and cloud cover. The dataset was developed from the Met Office Integrated Data Archive System (MIDAS) to enable the calibration of multisite, multivariate weather generators that could be used to provide inputs to JULES using the Rglimclim software package (http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucakarc/work/glimclim.html). The inputs were to be provided both at the station locations, and over a 5x5km2 grid located over the Kennet subcatchment. Topographic and other relevant information is provided for all relevant locations. The weather data contain many missing values: no attempt has been made to restore or interpolate these, since (a) the amount of missing data is so large that any interpolation exercise could have induce substantial biases in the final results of the hydrological modelling (b) Rglimclim does not require complete data records to produce a coherent weather generator.

Citation proposal
. HydEF (Hydrological extremes and feedbacks in the changing water cycle) project: Thames catchment daily weather data (NERC grant NE/I006656/1). https://metadata.bgs.ac.uk/geonetwork/srv/api/records/46861047-ca89-600e-e054-002128a47908

Simple

Date ( Creation ): 2014

Identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607082

Point of contact

University College London - Professor Richard Chandler (Department of Statistical Science )

Gower Street London WC1E 6BT

Maintenance and update frequency: notApplicable notApplicable

GEMET - INSPIRE themes

Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

Radiation , Temperature , Precipitation (meteorology) , Pressure , Rainfall , Wind

Keywords

NERC_DDC

Access constraints: otherRestrictions Other restrictions

Use constraints: otherRestrictions Other restrictions

Other constraints: The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.

Other constraints: Either: (i) the dataset is made freely available, e.g. via the Internet, for a restricted category of use (e.g. educational use only); or (ii) the dataset has not been formally approved by BGS for access and use by external clients under licence, but its use may be permitted under alternative formal arrangements; or (iii) the dataset contains 3rd party data or information obtained by BGS under terms and conditions that must be consulted in order to determine the permitted usage of the dataset. Refer to the BGS staff member responsible for the creation of the dataset if further advice is required. He / she should be familiar with the composition of the dataset, particularly with regard to 3rd party IPR contained in it, and any resultant use restrictions. This staff member should revert to the IPR Section (ipr@bgs.ac.uk ) for advice, should the position not be clear.

Metadata language: English English

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Supplemental Information: Usage of the weather data in file ThamesDaily.dat is restricted by the NERC-Met Office agreement at http://licences.ceda.ac.uk/image/data_access_condition/ukmo_agreement.pdf. Usage of the remaining files is unrestricted.

Reference system identifier

OGP / GEOG

Date ( Revision ): 2005

Distribution format

()

OnLine resource: https://jules.jchmr.org/

OnLine resource: http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucakarc/work/glimclim.html

OnLine resource: https://www.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item72689

Hierarchy level: dataset Dataset

Other: dataset

Conformance result

Date ( Publication ): 2011

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: false

Conformance result

Date ( Publication ): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF

Pass: false

Statement: The dataset was developed from the following source: Met Office (2012): Met Office Integrated Data Archive System (MIDAS) Land and Marine Surface Stations Data (1853-current). NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre, http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/220a65615218d5c9cc9e4785a3234bd0 The original MIDAS data have been subject to extensive processing to remove dubious values, resolve duplicates and so forth. Full details can be found in the documentation supplied with the data.