NERC Data Catalogue Service
Met Office daily weather reports 1900-1910
This dataset contains meteorological observations taken from 72 locations around Great Britain, Ireland and Europe published in the 1900-1910 Met Office Daily Weather Reports (DWRs). These records were produced as part of the Operation Weather Rescue project.
Twice daily observations of mean sea level pressure and dry bulb temperature, along with daily wet bulb, maximum and minimum temperatures and total rainfall, were sent to the Met Office via telegraph for publication the DWRs. Some of the locations cover the entire 11 year period whereas others stopped reporting and may have been replaced by another location, and some locations were included in the DWRs from a later date. Additional observations of mean sea level pressure, dry bulb temperature and wet bulb temperature at 2pm are included for 1900 but these observations were no longer included in the DWRs after 1900. From November 1908 the German stations replaced wet bulb temperature with relative humidity.
The data is stored in two formats: in daily csv files with observations for each station and in Station Exchange Format (SEF) files for each station in separate variables. SEF is a human-readable text format saved as .tsv (tab separated values). In the csv files units are inches of mercury (inHg) for mean sea level pressure, degrees Fahrenheit (F) for all temperature variables, inches for rainfall and percent (%) for relative humidity. In the SEF files the units are hectopascals (hPa) for mean sea level pressure, degrees Celsius (C) for all temperature variables, millimetres (mm) for rainfall and percent for relative humidity.
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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2019-10-24T13:02:12
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2019-10-24T13:02:12
- Identifier
- Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 235ff4a040854dcd8dfb754bbb898479
- Maintenance and update frequency
- unknown
- Update scope
- dataset
- Keywords
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- Met Office
- Reports
- Weather
- Meteorology
- 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
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- Begin date
- 1899-12-31T00:00:00
- End date
- 1910-12-31T23:59:59
- Code
- WGS 84
Distribution Information
- Data format
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Data are csv and SEF formatted.
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Data are csv and SEF 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
- 235ff4a040854dcd8dfb754bbb898479 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
- 2021-08-23T00:05:56
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
