Expanding HadISD: quality-controlled, sub-daily station data from 1931

Dunn, Robert J. H.; Willett, Kate M.; Parker, David E.; Mitchell, Lorna

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-5-473-2016

Articles | Volume 5, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-5-473-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-5-473-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 5, issue 2

Research article

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29 Sep 2016

Research article |

| 29 Sep 2016

Expanding HadISD: quality-controlled, sub-daily station data from 1931

Robert J. H. Dunn, Kate M. Willett, David E. Parker, and Lorna Mitchell

Data sets

HadISD2 R. J. H. Dunn, K. M. Willett, D. E. Parker, and L. Mitchell http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadisd/v200_2015p/index.html

ISD A. Smith, N. Lott, and R. Vose http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/isd/

PHA M. Menne and C. Williams Jr. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/ushcn/#phas

HadISD2 R. J. H. Dunn, K. M. Willett, D. E. Parker, and L. Mitchell https://github.com/rjhd2/HadISD_v2/

Short summary

We have extended the sub-daily, integrated HadISD back to 1931 to double the time coverage of the dataset. We have updated and improved the station selection and merging procedure, which will be rerun on an annual basis to prevent it becoming out of date. The quality-control code has been rewritten from IDL to Python2.7 to make it clearer and more accessible. We have also calculated humidity and heat-stress variables in HadISD.2.0.0. This increases the value and applicability of this dataset.