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Saxmundham monthly meteorological summaries 1966-1985

Download the Data

This dataset is presented as a downloadable Excel Spreadsheet:

SaxMetDatamonthly1966.xlsx

and as comma-separated values (CSV):

SaxMetDatamonthly1966.csv

Publication Date

Publication date V1. 2019/08/29
Last updated V1. 2019/08/29

Access Use and Conditions

Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

YOU MUST CITE AS: Rothamsted Research (2019). Saxmundham monthly meteorological data summaries 1966-1985. Electronic Rothamsted Archive https://doi.org/10.23637/Sax-1928223556-01

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Description

This dataset consists of monthly summaries of meteorological data measured at Saxmundham Experimental Station in East Suffolk, UK, from January 1966 until December 1985, and is derived from daily measurements taken at the site.

MEASUREMENTS

  • Mean monthly air temperature: the mean of the maximum and minimum air temperature (degrees C);
  • Mean monthly dew point: derived from wet and dry bulb temperature, measured at 0900 GMT (degrees C);
  • Mean monthly soil temperature: the soil temperature in ground under bare soil at 30cm depth, measured at 0900 GMT (degrees C);
  • Total monthly ground frosts: the number of nights when the grass minimum temperature was below 0 degrees C (days per month);
  • Total monthly rainfall: including all precipitation (snow, rain, mist and fog) captured in a 12.7 cm rain gauge (mm per month);
  • Total monthly rain days: the number of days rainfall was 0.2mm or more (days per month);
  • Mean monthly wind speed: measured at 2 metres above ground level, average over 24 hours (km per hour);
  • Mean daily solar radiation: measured with a Kipp Solarimeter (MJ m-2 day-1 );
  • Total monthly evaporation over open water: mean of two open water tanks installed in the spring of each year (mm per month).

    • LOCATION

    Saxmundham Experimental Station, Saxmundham, Suffolk, UK. 52.221 N 1.466 E 37 m asl.

    Provenance & Quality

    The monthly summary data contained in this spreadsheet are derived from daily data measured at Saxmundham Experimental Station Meteorological Station, Saxmundham, Suffolk, UK. The 1966 and 1967 summaries were published in the Rothamsted Annual Reports for those years; subsequent years were also published in the 'Numerical Results' or 'Yields of the Fields Experiments' for 1968-1985, as well as the Rothamsted Annual Reports for each year. Summary data were converted from paper copies to electronic files using code to extract and compile summary data into a single dataset, July 2019. Verification of daily data includes checks for instrument errors, for missing data and outliers.

    Supporting Information

    SaxMetDatamonthly1966-sup-v1.xlsx: Description of variables, data available, and record of missing or incomplete data, 1966-1985.

    Keywords:

    Meteorological station
    Weather data
    Meteorological factors
    Weather
    Precipitation
    Rain
    Air temperature
    Soil temperature
    Wind speed
    Climate change
    Climate

    Authors

    Margaret Glendining, Richard Ostler, Sarah Perryman, Lilybelle Cowland-Kellock, Tony Scott.

    Publisher

    Rothamsted Research.

    Further Information and contact details

    Please contact the e-RA Curators for further information, and assistance with questions about the data or its interpretation:

    e-RA Curators,
    Department of Computational and Analytical Sciences (CAS)
    Rothamsted Research
    Harpenden, Herts, AL5 2JQ

    email: era@rothamsted.ac.uk

    Funding

    The Long-term Experiments and weather stations are supported by the Lawes Agricultural Trust and BBSRC National Capability Funding (BBS/E/C/000J0300) recognising the national and international importance of the data.

    Key References:

    1968

    1967

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