Dataset
Flood Risk for Extreme Events (FREE): British Rainfall Digital Archive (1867-1968)
Abstract
The Quantifying Flood Risk of Extreme Events using Density Forecasts Based on a New Digital Archive and Weather Ensemble Predictions Project is a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Flood Risk for Extreme Events (FREE) Research Programme project (Round 1 - NE/E002013/1 - Duration January 2007 - December 2008) led by Dr Patrick McSharry, University of Oxford. The dataset contains a collection of rainfall depth maxima data, dating back to 1860, plus associated description documents and rainfall maps of extreme events across the UK, have been used. All of these products have been digitised from the paper version of the British Rainfall publication, and are now archived at the BADC to enable easy access for future use and the wider community.
Details
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| Previously used record identifiers: |
http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/badc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__ACTIVITY_e97671b0-c1c6-11df-9507-00e081470264
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| Access rules: |
Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
Use of these data is covered by the following licence: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record. |
| Data lineage: |
Data obtained from a collection of rainfall depth maxima data, dating back to 1860, plus associated description documents and rainfall maps of extreme events across the UK. |
| Data Quality: |
Unknown
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| File Format: |
Data are CSV formatted
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Related Documents
Process overview
Instrument/Platform pairings
| Met Office - Ordinary raingauge | Deployed on: Raingauge station network used to produce the British Rainfall archive |
| Output Description | None |
No variables found.
Temporal Range
1867-01-01T00:00:00
1968-12-30T23:00:00
Geographic Extent
57.0000° |
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-2.0000° |
5.0000° |
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50.0000° |