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Operational Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) Output from the Global Atmospheric Part of the Met Office Unified Model (UM)
This dataset contains operational NWP (Numerical Weather Prediction) output from the global atmospheric part of the Met Office global atmospheric Unified Model.
The Met Office Unified Model is the numerical modelling system developed and used at the Met Office (it is run operationally for weather forecasting). It is 'seamless' in that different configurations of the same model are used across all time and space scales.
This model can produce several datasets of which CEDA holds the following:
Met Office Global Atmospheric Model data
Met Office North Atlantic/European (NAE) Mesoscale Model data
The Met Office Global Atmospheric Model has 25 km resolution with 70 vertical levels. It Covers the entire globe and 144 hours in the future twice a day. The Global model provides boundary information for the NAE model, for which additional shorter runs (48 hours) are produced twice a day. The model is kept close to the real atmosphere using hybrid 4D-Var data assimilation of observations. 17km resolution with 70 vertical levels is now also available.
Analyses and first forecast steps are stored to give a time resolution of 1 hour up to 6 hours after each analysis timestep.
The NWP global output archive starts on 1 January 2012, and is ongoing.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2013-09-18T18:13:06
- Date (Creation)
- 2013-09-18T18:13:06
- Identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 41f061e11217e549a498971725e90520
- Maintenance and update frequency
- unknown Unknown
- Update scope
- series Series
- Keywords
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- NWP
- Met Office
- UM
- unified model
- global atmospheric model
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- atmospheric conditions
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- All data within this dataset collection are available to any registered CEDA user.
- 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
- 2012-01-01T00:00:00
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
- Distribution format
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- OnLine resource
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- OnLine resource
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NWP Global data - File Format explained
No further details.
- OnLine resource
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Met Office Unified Model Background Information
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- OnLine resource
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Met Office Global Output fields
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- OnLine resource
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BADC doc: Unified Model data description
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- OnLine resource
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BADC doc: History of the Unified Model
No further details.
- Hierarchy level
- series Series
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.
- File identifier
- 41f061e11217e549a498971725e90520 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- series Series
- Hierarchy level name
- series
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-16T03:27:07
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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