Meteorological Observations taken from Ben Nevis and Fort William (1883 -1904)
This dataset contains meteorological observations taken from Ben Nevis and Fort William (1883 -1904). These records were produced as part of the Operation Weather Rescue project.
Between 1883 and 1904, detailed meteorological observations were taken at the summit of Ben Nevis (56.80N, 5.00W, 1345m elevation) and in the town of Fort William (56.81N, 5.12W, 13m elevation). Hourly observations include temperature (both wet and dry bulb), rainfall, atmospheric pressure at both locations. Daily observations include minimum and maximum temperatures and rainfall. Additional observations taken at Fort William School during the same period are also included. Units are Celsius for temperature, mm for rainfall and mb for pressure.
V2 is the latest version.
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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2019-02-05T09:42:00
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2019-02-05T09:42:00
- Identifier
- Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 1d29816cee7e4fb586b80a3f7debcb8e
- Maintenance and update frequency
- notPlanned
- Update scope
- dataset
- Keywords
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- Weather
- Meteorology
- Ben Nevis
- Fort William
- Rainfall
- Temperature
- Pressure
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- atmospheric conditions
- Limitations on Public Access
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
- Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions
- Spatial representation type
- grid
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Begin date
- 1883-12-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 1904-09-30T00:00:00
- Code
- WGS 84
Distribution Information
- Data format
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Data are CSV formatted.
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Data are CSV formatted.
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- Resource Locator
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- Resource Locator
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DOWNLOAD
Download Data
- Resource Locator
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Operation Weather Rescue website
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- Resource Locator
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DOWNLOAD
Download Data
- Resource Locator
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Operation Weather Rescue website
No further details.
- Quality Scope
- dataset
Report
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Data were digitised as part of the Operation Weather Rescue project and sent to the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) for archiving.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 1d29816cee7e4fb586b80a3f7debcb8e XML
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
- Parent identifier
- Meteorological observations recovered by the Weather Rescue project 56c03beb2e11472d87d547ea53c95f51
- Resource type
- dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2024-03-25T00:27:07
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3