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MIDAS Open: UK hourly weather observation data, v201908
The UK hourly weather observation data contain meteorological values measured on an hourly time scale. The measurements of the concrete state, wind speed and direction, cloud type and amount, visibility, and temperature were recorded by observation stations operated by the Met Office across the UK and transmitted within SYNOP, DLY3208, AWSHRLY and NCM messages. The sunshine duration measurements were transmitted in the HSUN3445 message. The data spans from 1875 to 2018.
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 details on observing practice see the message type information in the MIDAS User Guide linked from this record and relevant sections for parameter types.
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 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. Note, METAR message types are not included in the Open version of this dataset. Those data may be accessed via the full MIDAS hourly weather data.
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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2019-10-30T16:37:45
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2019-10-30T16:37:45
- Identifier
- Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 6c441aea187b44819b9e929e575b0d7e
- Identifier
- doi / http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/6c441aea187b44819b9e929e575b0d7e
- Maintenance and update frequency
- notPlanned
- Update scope
- dataset
- Keywords
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- Met Office
- MIDAS
- UK
- meteorology
- hourly
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- atmospheric conditions
- Limitations on Public Access
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
- Access to these data is available to any registered CEDA user. Please Login or Register for an account to gain access.
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions
- Spatial representation type
- grid
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 1875-01-01T09:00:00
- End date
- 2018-12-31T23:59:59
- Code
- WGS 84
Distribution Information
- Data format
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Data are BADC-CSV formatted.
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Data are BADC-CSV formatted.
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- Resource Locator
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
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DOWNLOAD
Download Data
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MIDAS User Guide version v20200921
No further details.
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Met Office Fact sheet 17 Weather observations over land
No further details.
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Individual station change logs for the UK hourly weather dataset between version v201901 and v201908 (this version)
No further details.
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Change log for UK hourly weather dataset between version v201901 and v201908 (this version)
No further details.
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MIDAS Open User Guide
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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Information on versioning in MIDAS data
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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MIDAS User Guide version v20200921
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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Met Office Fact sheet 17 Weather observations over land
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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Individual station change logs for the UK hourly weather dataset between version v201901 and v201908 (this version)
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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Change log for UK hourly weather dataset between version v201901 and v201908 (this version)
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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MIDAS Open User Guide
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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Information on versioning in MIDAS data
No further details.
- Quality Scope
- dataset
Report
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 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.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 6c441aea187b44819b9e929e575b0d7e XML
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
- Parent identifier
- Met Office MIDAS Open: UK Land Surface Stations Data (1853-current) dbd451271eb04662beade68da43546e1
- Resource type
- dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2023-11-28T00:07:45
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
