MIDAS Open: UK daily weather observation data, v202007

The UK daily weather observation data contain meteorological values measured on a 24 hour time scale. The measurements of sunshine duration, concrete state, snow depth, fresh snow depth, and days of snow, hail, thunder and gail were attained by observation stations operated by the Met Office across the UK operated and transmitted within DLY3208, NCM, AWSDLY and SYNOP messages. The data span from 1889 to 2019. For details of observations see the relevant sections of the MIDAS User Guide linked from this record for the various message types.

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. Of particular note, however, is that as well as including data for 2019, historical data recovery has added temperature and weather data for Bude (1937-1958), Teignmouth (1912-1930), and Eskdalemuir (1915-1948).

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. Currently this represents approximately 95% of available daily weather observations within the full MIDAS collection.

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Date (Publication)
2020-10-20T15:46:15
Date (Creation)
2020-10-20T15:46:15
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/f8612c43a1244fda9463787313d3892a
Identifier
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / f8612c43a1244fda9463787313d3892a
Identifier
doi / 10.5285/f8612c43a1244fda9463787313d3892a
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
  • daily
  • diurnal
  • 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 a CEDA account to gain access.
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
Under the following licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
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Metadata language
English
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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Begin date
1889-01-02T00:00:00
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

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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 daily weather dataset between version v201908 and v202007(this version)

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

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MIDAS User Guide version v20200921

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MIDAS Open User Guide

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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
f8612c43a1244fda9463787313d3892a 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
2024-11-21T00:47:39
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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atmospheric conditions

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