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CRU TS3.24: Climatic Research Unit (CRU) Time-Series (TS) Version 3.24 of High Resolution Gridded Data of Month-by-month Variation in Climate (Jan. 1901- Dec. 2015)

Update Frequency: Not Planned
Status: Obsolete
Online Status: OFFLINE
Publication State: Removed
Publication Date: 2017-01-25
THESE DATA HAVE BEEN REMOVED - RECORD FOR REFERENCE ONLY!
Abstract

The gridded CRU TS (time-series) 3.24 data are month-by-month variations in climate over the period 1901-2015, on high-resolution (0.5x0.5 degree) grids, produced by the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia.

CRU TS 3.24 variables are cloud cover, diurnal temperature range, frost day frequency, PET, precipitation, daily mean temperature, monthly average daily maximum and minimum temperature, and vapour pressure for the period Jan. 1901 - Dec. 2015.

CRU TS 3.24 data were produced using the same methodology as for the 3.21 datasets. In addition to updating the dataset with 2015 data, some new stations have been added for TMP and PRE only. Known issues predating this release remain.

The CRU TS 3.24 data are monthly gridded fields based on monthly observational data, which are calculated from daily or sub-daily data by National Meteorological Services and other external agents. The ASCII and netcdf data files both contain monthly mean values for the various parameters.

All CRU TS output files are actual values - NOT anomalies.

Note, these data were found to be in error and a new version, v3.24.01, should be used instead.

Citable as:  University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit; Harris, I.C.; Jones, P.D. (2017): CRU TS3.24: Climatic Research Unit (CRU) Time-Series (TS) Version 3.24 of High Resolution Gridded Data of Month-by-month Variation in Climate (Jan. 1901- Dec. 2015). Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/492c792f417c452db1a5946b9c3bc5fe/
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: CRU, TS, atmosphere, earth science, climate

Details

Previous Info:

2017-01-25 Data has been withdrawn by the data provider due to known errors in the gridded output. Please see https://crudata.uea.ac.uk/cr… Show More 2017-01-25 Data has been withdrawn by the data provider due to known errors in the gridded output. Please see https://crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/hrg/Known_Problems_CRU_TS_3.24.txt for further details. Show Less

Previously used record identifiers:
No related previous identifiers.
Access rules:
These data have been removed (see lineage statement for details).
For data use licensing information please contact:
support@ceda.ac.uk
Data lineage:

CRU TS 3.00 data files acquired directly from CRU in 2007. CRU provided the BADC with software to generate the CRU datasets in 2010, and this was used to produce CRU TS 3.10 at the BADC in early 2011.

In July 2012, systematic errors were discovered in the CRUTS v3.10 process. The effect was, in some cases, to reduce the gridded values for PRE and therefore WET. Values of FRS were found to be unrealistic in some areas due to the algorithms used for synthetic generation. The files (pre, frs and wet) were immediately removed from BADC. The corrected run for precipitation, based on the v3.10 precipitation station data, was generated as a direct replacement and given the version number 3.10.01. There were no corrected runs produced for wet and frs.

CRU TS 3.20 was produced in December 2012.
In March 2013, CRU TS observation databases for TMP and PRE variables were provided by CRU. Others are in preparation. In july 2013, two errors were found in the PRE and WET variables of CRU TS v3.20. These have been repaired in CRU TS v3.21. Details of the errors found are available in the Release Notes in the archive.

CRU TS 3.21 was provided to CEDA for archival in July 2013 by CRU.

CRU TS 3.22 was provided to CEDA for archival in July 2014 by CRU.

CRU TS 3.23 was provided to CEDA in October 2015 by CRU. This is the latest version available, superseding all previous data versions (which are available to allow user comparisons).

CRU TS 3.24 was provided to CEDA for archival in July 2016. This is the latest version available, superseding all previous data versions (which are available to allow user comparisons).

2017-01-25 These data were removed for the following reason: Data has been withdrawn by the data provider due to known errors in the gridded output. Please see https://crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/hrg/Known_Problems_CRU_TS_3.24.txt for further details
File Format:
NetCDF and ASCII

Related Documents

 Climate Research Unit (CRU) data Homepage
 Harris et al. (2014) Reference for CRU version 3 data
 CRU TS 3.24 File Formats explained (same as CRU TS 3.23)
 CRU User Guide

Process overview

This dataset was generated by the computation detailed below.
Title

UEA Climatic Research Unit (CRU) High Resolution gridding software deployed on UEA Climatic Research Unit (CRU) computer system
Abstract

This computation involved: UEA Climatic Research Unit (CRU) High Resolution gridding software deployed on UEA Climatic Research Unit (CRU) computer system. For details about the production of CRU TS and CRU CY datasets, please refer to Harris et al. (2014) - see link below.
Input Description

None
Output Description

None
Software Reference

None
  • long_name: Air Temperature
  • gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0027
  • gcmd_keyword: Air Temperature
  • names: Air Temperature, http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0027
  • long_name: Atmospheric Phenomena
  • gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P131/4/GTER0022
  • gcmd_keyword: Atmospheric Phenomena
  • names: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P131/4/GTER0022, Atmospheric Phenomena
  • long_name: Atmospheric Temperature
  • gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P131/4/GTER0025
  • gcmd_keyword: Atmospheric Temperature
  • names: Atmospheric Temperature, http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P131/4/GTER0025
  • long_name: Atmospheric Water Vapor
  • gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P131/4/GTER0026
  • gcmd_keyword: Atmospheric Water Vapor
  • names: Atmospheric Water Vapor, http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P131/4/GTER0026
  • long_name: Cloud Amount
  • names: Cloud Amount
  • long_name: Cloud Cover
  • names: Cloud Cover
  • long_name: Clouds
  • gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P041/4/H333
  • gcmd_keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Clouds
  • names: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P041/4/H333, EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Clouds
  • long_name: Frequency
  • names: Frequency
  • long_name: Frost
  • gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P041/4/G177
  • gcmd_keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Phenomena > Frost
  • names: EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Phenomena > Frost, http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P041/4/G177
  • long_name: Maximum
  • names: Maximum
  • long_name: Minimum Temperature
  • names: Minimum Temperature
  • long_name: Precipitation
  • gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P041/4/H334
  • gcmd_keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Precipitation
  • names: EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Precipitation, http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P041/4/H334
  • long_name: Precipitation Amount
  • gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0656
  • gcmd_keyword: Precipitation Amount
  • names: Precipitation Amount, http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0656
  • long_name: Vapour Pressure
  • names: Vapour Pressure
  • long_name: Water Vapor
  • gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0943
  • gcmd_keyword: Water Vapor
  • names: Water Vapor, http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0943

Co-ordinate Variables

Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
1901-01-01T00:00:00
End time:
2015-12-31T23:59:59
Geographic Extent

 
90.0000°
  
-180.0000°
  
180.0000°
 
-60.0000°
  
Related parties
Authors (3)
Publishers (1)
Principal Investigators (2)