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MIDAS Open: UK hourly solar radiation data, v202407
The UK hourly solar radiation data contain the amount of solar irradiance received during the hour ending at the specified time. All sites report 'global' radiation amounts. This is also known as 'total sky radiation' as it includes both direct solar irradiance and 'diffuse' irradiance as a result of light scattering. Some sites also provide separate diffuse and direct irradiation amounts, depending on the instrumentation at the site. For these the sun's path is tracked with two pyrometers - one where the path to the sun is blocked by a suitable disc to allow the scattered sunlight to be measured to give the diffuse measurement, while the other has a tube pointing at the sun to measure direct solar irradiance whilst blanking out scattered sun light.
For details about the different measurements made and the limited number of sites making them please see the MIDAS Solar Irradiance table linked to in the online resources section of this record.
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.
The data were collected by observation stations operated by the Met Office across the UK and transmitted within the following message types: SYNOP, HCM, AWSHRLY, MODLERAD, ESAWRADT and DRADR35 messages. The data spans from 1947 to 2023.
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)
- 2024-08-06T13:45:06
- Date (Creation)
- 2024-08-06T13:45:06
- Identifier
- NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / 0afba628c2f4462da68b0a81ebf1ff4c
- Identifier
- doi / 10.5285/0afba628c2f4462da68b0a81ebf1ff4c
- Maintenance and update frequency
- notPlanned Not planned
- Update scope
- dataset Dataset
- Keywords
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- Met Office
- MIDAS
- UK
- meteorology
- solar irradiance
- hourly
- global
- diffuse
- direct
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- atmospheric conditions
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions 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
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Spatial representation type
- grid Grid
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 1947-01-01T00:00:00
- 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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MIDAS Open User Guide
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Individual station change logs for the UK hourly solar radiation dataset for v202407 (this version)
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Change log for UK hourly solar radiation dataset for v202407 (this version)
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Information on versioning in MIDAS data
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Details of solar irradiance measurements within MIDAS solar irradiance
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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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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 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
- 0afba628c2f4462da68b0a81ebf1ff4c XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
- Parent identifier
- Met Office MIDAS Open: UK Land Surface Stations Data (1853-current) dbd451271eb04662beade68da43546e1
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-05-22T02:26:24
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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