CEDA Metadata Catalogue
MIDAS Open: UK soil temperature data, v202407
The UK soil temperature data contain daily and hourly values of soil temperatures at depths of 5, 10, 20, 30, 50, and 100 centimetres. The measurements were recorded by observation stations operated by the Met Office across the UK and transmitted within NCM or DLY3208 messages. The data spans from 1900 to 2023.
This version supersedes the previous version of this dataset and a change log is available in the archive, and in the linked documentation for this record, detailing the differences between this version and the previous version. The change logs detail new, replaced and removed data. These include the addition of data for calendar year 2023.
At many stations temperatures below the surface are measured at various depths. The depths used today are 5, 10, 20, 30 and 100cm, although measurements are not necessarily made at all these depths at a station and exceptionally measurements may be made at other depths. When imperial units were in general use, typically before 1961, the normal depths of measurement were 4, 8, 12, 24 and 48 inches.
Liquid-in-glass soil thermometers at a depth of 20 cm or less are unsheathed and have a bend in the stem between the bulb and the lowest graduation. At greater depths the thermometer is suspended in a steel tube and has its bulb encased in wax.
This dataset is part of the Midas-open dataset collection made available by the Met Office under the UK Open Government Licence, containing only UK mainland land surface observations owned or operated by the Met Office. It is a subset of the fuller, restricted Met Office Integrated Data Archive System (MIDAS) Land and Marine Surface Stations dataset, also available through the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - see the related dataset section on this record.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2024-08-06T14:34:26
- Date (Creation)
- 2024-08-06T14:34:26
- Identifier
- NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / a6bb3e8def544b5790d4b05a6f37f901
- Identifier
- doi / 10.5285/a6bb3e8def544b5790d4b05a6f37f901
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- Update scope
- Dataset
- Keywords
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- Met Office
- MIDAS
- UK
- meteorology
- soil temperatures
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- atmospheric conditions
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Access to these data is available to any registered CEDA user. Please Login or Register for a CEDA account to gain access.
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Metadata language
- English
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 1900-01-01T09:00:00
- End date
- 2023-12-31T23:59:59
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
- Distribution format
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Data are BADC-CSV formatted.
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Data are BADC-CSV formatted.
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- OnLine resource
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
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DOWNLOAD
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MIDAS Open User Guide
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Individual station change logs for the UK soil temperature dataset for v202407 (this version)
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Met Office Fact sheet 17 Weather observations over land
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MIDAS User Guide version v20200921
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Information on versioning in MIDAS data
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Change log for UK soil temperature dataset for v202407 (this version)
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Met Office. (2024). MIDAS Open V202407 release notes and station change logs. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12819432
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- Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Data collated by the Met Office and archived in the Met Office's MIDAS database. Data are extracted from a sub-set of available tables and delivered to Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) approximately on a yearly basis.
- File identifier
- a6bb3e8def544b5790d4b05a6f37f901 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Parent identifier
- Met Office MIDAS Open: UK Land Surface Stations Data (1853-current) dbd451271eb04662beade68da43546e1
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-09-25T23:59:09
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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