Monthly temperature series for Scotland and Northern Ireland

With funding from SNIFFER, Jones and Lister (2004) developed monthly temperature series for three regions:

Scottish mainland temperature (SMT)
Northern and northwestern Scottish isles temperature (SIT)
Northern Ireland temperature (NIT)

These series were based on eight long station or composite-station records, for monthly means of daily mean, maximum and minimum temperature. The series begin in 1800 (SMT, mean temperature), 1827 (SIT, mean temperature), 1844 (NIT, mean, minimum and maximum temperature), and 1866 (SMT and SIT for maximum and minimum temperature) and then originally all ran to 2002 (Jones and Lister, 2004). All series were subsequently updated to 2004. See Jones and Lister (2004) for a discussion of the reliability of the series, especially the earlier portions.

Files are provided with both actual (absolute) temperatures and with differences from the 1961-1990 mean (anomalies).

Jones, P.D., and Lister, D. (2004) The development of monthly temperature series for Scotland and Northern Ireland. Int. J. Climatol. 24, 569-590 (http://doi.org/10.1002/joc.1017).

File format
for year = startyear to endyear format(i5,12i6,i6) year, 12 * monthly value, annual value
Missing values represented by -999 Divide absolute temperature files by 10 for °C Divide anomaly temperature files by 100 for °C anomalies Anomalies are differences from the 1961-1990 mean

Filename	Description
SNIFFER.tar	tar file containing all series (or click individual files below)
smtmabs18002004.dat	SMT mean temperature absolute
smtmanom18002004.dat	SMT mean temperature anomalies
smtnabs18662004.dat	SMT minimum temperature absolute
smtnanom18662004.dat	SMT minimum temperature anomalies
smtxabs18662004.dat	SMT maximum temperature absolute
smtxanom18662004.dat	SMT maximum temperature anomalies
sitmabs18272004.dat	SIT mean temperature absolute
sitmanom18272004.dat	SIT mean temperature anomalies
sitnabs18662004.dat	SIT minimum temperature absolute
sitnanom18662004.dat	SIT minimum temperature anomalies
sitxabs18662004.dat	SIT maximum temperature absolute
sitxanom18662004.dat	SIT maximum temperature anomalies
nitmabs18442004.dat	NIT mean temperature absolute
nitmanom18442004.dat	NIT mean temperature anomalies
nitnabs18442004.dat	NIT minimum temperature absolute
nitnanom18442004.dat	NIT minimum temperature anomalies
nitxabs18442004.dat	NIT maximum temperature absolute
nitxanom18442004.dat	NIT maximum temperature anomalies

Change log

2017-06-29: Page created
2018-11-01: Correction to anomaly scaling guidance

License

These datasets are made available under the Open Database License. Any rights in individual contents of the datasets are licensed under the Database Contents License under the conditions of Attribution and Share-Alike.

MONTHLY TEMPERATURE FOR SCOTLAND AND NORTHERN IRELAND

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