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CHESS-met driving data
CHESS-met driving data (UKCEH). Access: download (EIDC). Formats: NetCDF. Resolution: 1 km daily. Coverage: GB. Pricing/licence: free.
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What's in it
- Data offered docs-verified
- daily mean air temperature · daily temperature range · specific humidity · wind speed · downward longwave radiation · downward shortwave radiation · precipitation · air pressure
- Coverage docs-verified
- Great Britain · 1961-01-01 to 2019-12-31
- Resolution docs-verified
- 1000 m spatial (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid); daily time step
- Formats docs-verified
- NetCDF
- Access llm-inferred
- Free licence per catalogue entry; download from EIDC; licence terms and conditions apply; scripted download needs a personal access token (Bearer)
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- Climate forcing for JULES or Hydro-JULES land surface model runs · Historical catchment water balance and drought baseline from gridded daily met data · Long-term rainfall and temperature inputs for water resources or flood-risk modelling
- Audience llm-inferred
- hydrologists · flood consultants · water resources engineers · climate modellers · ecologists
Limitations
- Constraints llm-inferred
- Series ends 2019-12-31; the catalogue lists newer CHESS-met versions · Input variables are downscaled from 40 km MORECS and 0.5-degree CRU/WATCH data, so fine-scale detail is interpolated · Daily temperature range uses one monthly value for every day of the month · Licence terms and conditions apply · Scripted download requires a personal access token
- Licence
- free
- Authentication
- Unknown — review source docs
- GitHub stars
- Unknown
- Last commit
- Unknown
- Last successful page check
- 16/10/2026
- Page health
- healthy
- Package
- Not recorded
- Verification
- Not independently verified
Provenance & evidence
Verified 2026-10-16 (curl HTTP 200).
Metadata observed 14/10/2026 · research sweep: sweep-2026-10-16 (named: UK)