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Climate hydrology and ecology research support system [CHESS]
The Climate hydrology and ecology research support system (CHESS) provides high-resolution gridded datasets for environmental research. These datasets include data for driving land surface models and hydrological models, as well as model output. Currently CHESS contains three datasets; CHESS-met, CHESS-PE and CHESS-land. CHESS-met consists of eight meteorological variables at 1km resolution daily from 1961-2015 over Great Britain, which can be used to drive the JULES land surface model. CHESS-PE
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What's in it
- Data offered docs-verified
- eight meteorological variables at 1 km daily (CHESS-met) · two evaporative demand estimates at 1 km daily (CHESS-PE) · water, energy and carbon fluxes at 1 km, daily and monthly (CHESS-land)
- Coverage docs-verified
- Great Britain · 1961-2015
- Resolution docs-verified
- 1 km spatial; daily and monthly temporal (monthly for CHESS-land)
- Access llm-inferred
- Non-Open Government Licence (per entry metadata); no authentication listed
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- Driving JULES land surface model runs for GB catchment water balance and flow assessments · Daily evaporative demand (PET) inputs for drought or water resources assessments · Baseline water, carbon and energy flux mapping for ecological or habitat assessments
- Audience llm-inferred
- hydrologists · water resources engineers · ecologists · environmental modellers
Limitations
- Constraints llm-inferred
- Covers Great Britain only, not Northern Ireland or the wider UK · Gridded model-derived data, not station observations · Fixed historical period; no update frequency stated · Resource titles give 1961-2019 for CHESS-PE and CHESS-met, while the description gives 1961-2015 · Non-Open Government Licence; check terms before commercial use
- Licence
- Non-Open government licence
- 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
Listed in ukceh-eidc public catalogue API on 2026-10-16; relevance/value screened (haiku).
Metadata observed 14/10/2026 · research sweep: sweep-2026-10-16 (ukceh-eidc)