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MIDAS Open: UK mean wind data, v202107
The UK mean wind data contain the mean wind speed and direction, and the direction, speed and time of the maximum gust, all during 1 or more hours, ending at the stated time and date. 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, DLY3208, HWNDAUTO and HWND6910. The data spans from 1949 to 2020.
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.
For further details on observing practice, including measurement accuracies for the message types, see relevant sections of the MIDAS User Guide linked from this record (e.g. section 3.3 details the wind network in the UK, section 5.5 covers wind measurements in general and section 4 details message type information).
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)
- 2021-08-26T10:06:13
- Date (Creation)
- 2021-08-26T10:06:13
- Identifier
- NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / 4d48efaaeb7f47a7963df75d6d1dbdc5
- Identifier
- doi / 10.5285/4d48efaaeb7f47a7963df75d6d1dbdc5
- Maintenance and update frequency
- notPlanned Not planned
- Update scope
- dataset Dataset
- Keywords
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- Met Office
- MIDAS
- UK
- meteorology
- wind speed
- wind direction
- gust
- 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
- 1949-01-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 2020-12-31T23:59:59
- 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
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Change log for UK mean wind dataset for v202107 (this version)
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Individual station change logs for the UK mean wind dataset for v202107 (this version)
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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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MIDAS Open User Guide
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MIDAS User Guide version v20200921
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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
- 4d48efaaeb7f47a7963df75d6d1dbdc5 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
- 2025-05-10T02:13:54
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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