MIDAS Open: UK daily rainfall data, v202007

The UK daily rainfall data contain rainfall accumulation and precipitation amounts over a 24 hour period. The data were collected by observation stations operated by the Met Office across the UK and transmitted within the following message types: NCM, AWSDLY, DLY3208 and SSER. The data spans from 1853 to 2019. Over time a range of rain gauges have been used - see section 5.6 and the relevant message type information in the linked MIDAS User Guide for further details.

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.

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. A large proportion of the UK raingauge observing network (associated with WAHRAIN, WADRAIN and WAMRAIN for hourly, daily and monthly rainfall measurements respectively) is operated by other agencies beyond the Met Office, and are consequently currently excluded from the Midas-open dataset. Currently this represents approximately 13% of available daily rainfall observations within the full MIDAS collection.

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Date (Publication)
2020-10-20T14:53:27
Date (Creation)
2020-10-20T14:53:27
Identifier
http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/ec9e894089434b03bd9532d7b343ec4b
Identifier
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / ec9e894089434b03bd9532d7b343ec4b
Identifier
doi / 10.5285/ec9e894089434b03bd9532d7b343ec4b
Author
  Met Office - author
Met Office , FitzRoy Road , Exeter , EX1 3PB ,
0370 900 0100
Custodian
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - custodian
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Distributor
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - distributor
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Principal investigator
  Met Office - principal_investigator
Met Office , FitzRoy Road , Exeter , EX1 3PB ,
0370 900 0100
pointofContact
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - point_of_contact
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
pointofContact
  Met Office - point_of_contact
Met Office , FitzRoy Road , Exeter , EX1 3PB ,
0370 900 0100
Publisher
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - publisher
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
Update scope
Dataset
Keywords
  • Met Office
  • MIDAS
  • UK
  • meteorology
  • rainfall
  • diurnal
  • daily
  • monthly
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • atmospheric conditions
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
Access to these data is available to any registered CEDA user. Please Login or Register for an account to gain access.
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
Use of these data is covered by the following licence: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ . When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
Spatial representation type
Grid
Metadata language
English
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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Begin date
1853-01-02T00:00:00
End date
2019-12-31T23:59:59
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
Distribution format
  • Data are BADC-CSV formatted ()

Distributor
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - Data Center Contact
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
OnLine resource
CEDA Data Catalogue Page

Detail and access information for the resource

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OnLine resource
MIDAS User Guide version v20200921

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Met Office Fact sheet 17 Weather observations over land

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Change log for UK daily rainfall dataset between version v201908 and v202007 (this version)

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Individual station change logs for the UK daily rainfall dataset between version v201908 and v202007 (this version)

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Information on versioning in MIDAS data

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OnLine resource
MIDAS Open User Guide

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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
ec9e894089434b03bd9532d7b343ec4b 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
2024-02-21T00:39:41
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
 
 

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Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
atmospheric conditions

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