Bradford Rain Gauge Data for December 2015 Flood Hack

City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council published this one-off dataset for the #FloodHack16 event. It contains rainfall measurements from three rain gauge locations across Bradford for December 2015, a period of significant rainfall. The data records a timestamp each time 0.2mm of rainfall is collected, with closer timestamps indicating heavier rain.

Use Cases

• Modeling flood risk based on high-resolution rainfall intensity data from December 2015.
• Analyzing temporal patterns of heavy rainfall during the Christmas period in Bradford.
• Calibrating hydrological models using event-based rainfall timestamps from three specific locations.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific period of significant rainfall in December 2015.
• Timestamps provide high-resolution intensity information, as each record corresponds to 0.2mm of rainfall.
• Includes measurements from three distinct locations across Bradford.

Limitations

• Row count and column definitions are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Data is a one-off snapshot from a single month in 2015.

Provenance

Source

City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council

Collection Method

Likely collected from three physical rain gauge sensors.

Time Range

December 2015

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:20.697470; freshness should be verified

Geography

Bradford, UK