CEDA Metadata Catalogue
MIDAS Open: UK hourly weather observation data, v202407
The UK hourly weather observation data contain meteorological values measured on an hourly time scale. The measurements of the concrete state, wind speed and direction, cloud type and amount, visibility, and temperature were recorded by observation stations operated by the Met Office across the UK and transmitted within SYNOP, DLY3208, AWSHRLY and NCM messages. The sunshine duration measurements were transmitted in the HSUN3445 message. The data spans from 1875 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.
For details on observing practice see the message type information in the MIDAS User Guide linked from this record and relevant sections for parameter types.
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 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. Note, METAR message types are not included in the Open version of this dataset. Those data may be accessed via the full MIDAS hourly weather data.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2024-08-06T14:42:09
- Date (Creation)
- 2024-08-06T14:42:09
- Identifier
- NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / c50776e4903942cdb329589da70b83fe
- Identifier
- doi / 10.5285/c50776e4903942cdb329589da70b83fe
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- Update scope
- Dataset
- Keywords
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- Met Office
- MIDAS
- UK
- meteorology
- hourly
- 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
- 1875-01-01T09:00:00
- 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
- OnLine resource
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DOWNLOAD
Download Data
- OnLine resource
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MIDAS Open User Guide
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- OnLine resource
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MIDAS User Guide version v20200921
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- OnLine resource
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Met Office Fact sheet 17 Weather observations over land
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Information on versioning in MIDAS data
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Change log for UK hourly weather dataset for v202407 (this version)
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Individual station change logs for the UK hourly weather 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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- Hierarchy level
- 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
- c50776e4903942cdb329589da70b83fe 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
- 2024-09-26T00:01:34
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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