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MIDAS Open: UK soil temperature data, v202007

The UK soil temperature data contain daily and hourly values of soil temperatures at depths of 5, 10, 20, 30, 50, and 100 centimetres. The measurements were recorded by observation stations operated by the Met Office across the UK and transmitted within NCM or DLY3208 messages. The data spans from 1900 to 2019.

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.

At many stations temperatures below the surface are measured at various depths. The depths used today are 5, 10, 20, 30 and 100cm, although measurements are not necessarily made at all these depths at a station and exceptionally measurements may be made at other depths. When imperial units were in general use, typically before 1961, the normal depths of measurement were 4, 8, 12, 24 and 48 inches.

Liquid-in-glass soil thermometers at a depth of 20 cm or less are unsheathed and have a bend in the stem between the bulb and the lowest graduation. At greater depths the thermometer is suspended in a steel tube and has its bulb encased in wax.

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)
2020-10-20T14:27:07
Date (Creation)
2020-10-20T14:27:07
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/85b9dad7af814bfa9047a525927257f4
Identifier
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 85b9dad7af814bfa9047a525927257f4
Identifier
doi / 10.5285/85b9dad7af814bfa9047a525927257f4
Author
  Met Office - author
Met Office , FitzRoy Road , Exeter , EX1 3PB ,
0370 900 0100
Custodian
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - custodian
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Distributor
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - distributor
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Principal investigator
  Met Office - principal_investigator
Met Office , FitzRoy Road , Exeter , EX1 3PB ,
0370 900 0100
pointofContact
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - point_of_contact
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
pointofContact
  Met Office - point_of_contact
Met Office , FitzRoy Road , Exeter , EX1 3PB ,
0370 900 0100
Publisher
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - publisher
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
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notPlanned Not planned
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dataset Dataset
Keywords
  • Met Office
  • MIDAS
  • UK
  • meteorology
  • soil temperatures
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • atmospheric conditions
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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
Other constraints
Under the following licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
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Begin date
1900-01-01T00:00:00
End date
2019-12-31T23:59:59
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
Distribution format
  • Data are BADC-CSV formatted. ()

Distributor
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - Data Center Contact
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page

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Change log for UK soil temperature dataset between version v2019018 and v202007 (this version)

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Individual station change logs for the UK soil temperature dataset between version v201908 and v202007 (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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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.
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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
2025-05-09T02:04:03
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
 
 

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