CRU TS Time-Series 4.03

The gridded Climatic Research Unit (CRU) Time-series (TS) data version 4.03 data are month-by-month variations in climate over the period 1901-2018, provided on high-resolution (0.5x0.5 degree) grids, produced by CRU at the University of East Anglia.
The CRU TS4.03 variables are cloud cover, diurnal temperature range, frost day frequency, potential evapotranspiration (PET), precipitation, daily mean temperature, monthly average daily maximum and minimum temperature, and vapour pressure for the period January 1901 - December 2018.
The CRU TS4.03 data were produced using angular-distance weighting (ADW) interpolation. All version 4 releases used triangulation routines in IDL. Please see the release notes for full details of this version update.
The CRU TS4.03 data are monthly gridded fields based on monthly observational data 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. The NetCDF versions contain an additional integer variable, "stn", which provides, for each datum in the main variable, a count (between 0 and 8) of the number of stations used in that interpolation. The missing value code for 'stn' is -999.
All CRU TS output files are actual values - NOT anomalies.

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 catalogue record.

Citable as:  University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit; Harris, I.C.; Jones, P.D. (2020): CRU TS4.03: Climatic Research Unit (CRU) Time-Series (TS) version 4.03 of high-resolution gridded data of month-by-month variation in climate (Jan. 1901- Dec. 2018). Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, 22 January 2020. doi:10.5285/10d3e3640f004c578403419aac167d82

For more information see: CEDA Archive

Variables
cloud cover (%)
daily mean temperature (degC)
diurnal temperature range (degC)
frost day frequency (days)
monthly average daily maximum temperature (degC)
monthly average daily minimum temperature (degC)
potential evapo-transpiration (mm)
precipitation (mm)
vapour pressure (hpa)
wet day frequency (day)
number of stations contributing to each datum (except for potential evapo-transpiration)
ZonalGlobal by 0.5 deg
MeridionalGlobal by 0.5 deg
Verticalsurface  
Temporal Jan 1901 to Dec 2018 by 1 month(s)
Static?yes
Volume 2.8GB per variable in total
Serverprivate:
Sourcehttp://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/cru/data/cru_ts/ 
Acquired Mar 31, 2020
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