Met Office MetDB system: Surface, upper air and satellite data
Observational data extracted from the Met Office's MetDB system. Data include surface and upper air observations and some satellite data. These data are from a number of different message types covering data from land and ship surface data measurements through to upper air observations from wind profilers, radiosonde ascents and aircraft measurements and also satellite measurements.
Data arrive at the Met Office as per standard messages transmitted from source (e.g. SYNOP, METARS, TEMP message types) and are then decoded within the MetDB system. CEDA receives a text output from the MetDB system of these deciphered messages which are then processed into the BADC-CSV format where possible. Messages are split up by observation date at this stage. METARS and CLIMAT data are not decoded by the Met Office and are stored as per the original message. Details about the contents of each message type are given in the links in the 'online resources' section of this record. "Raw" data for all message types are available through the /raw folder within the archive. Each raw file contains messages received within a given period of time at the Met Office and are not sorted by observation date.
Default
Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2008-12-10T03:20:04
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2008-12-10T03:20:04
- Identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 8ee156b6ed41b153e85dbf02a4134513
- Maintenance and update frequency
- unknown
- Update scope
- series
- Keywords
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- Met Office
- MetDB
- meteorology
- SYNOP
- AMDARS
- wind
- temperature
- humidity
- WMO
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- atmospheric conditions
- Limitations on Public Access
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
- Access to data within this collection is restricted. Please see the individual datasets within this collection for further access details.
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
- Usage limitations for the data within this collection is set at the individual dataset level. Please refer to the licence details of each underlying dataset.
- Spatial representation type
- grid
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Begin date
- 2009-04-30T23:00:00
- Code
- WGS 84
Distribution Information
- Data format
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Contact data centre for format details.
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Contact data centre for format details.
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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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BADC Doc: MetDB WINPRO data
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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BADC Doc: MetDB RASS data
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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BADC Doc: MetDB Ship SYNOP data
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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BADC Doc: MetDB AMDARS data
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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BADC Doc: MetDB Land SYNOP data
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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Met Office website
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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Met Office UK climate summaries website
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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Met Office UK climate website
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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Met Office Hadley Centre website
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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Met Office high resolution radiosonde data from the UK, Gibralta, St Helena and the Falkland Islands
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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BADC-CSV Format for Data Exchange users guide website
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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MIDAS User Guide version v20200921
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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Met Office Global Radiosonde Data
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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BADC Doc: WMO Meteorological codes
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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Met Office Integrated Data Archive System (MIDAS) Land and Marine Surface Stations Data (1853-current)
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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BADC Doc: MetDB WINPRO data
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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BADC Doc: MetDB RASS data
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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BADC Doc: MetDB Ship SYNOP data
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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BADC Doc: MetDB AMDARS data
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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BADC Doc: MetDB Land SYNOP data
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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Met Office website
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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Met Office UK climate summaries website
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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Met Office UK climate website
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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Met Office Hadley Centre website
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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Met Office high resolution radiosonde data from the UK, Gibralta, St Helena and the Falkland Islands
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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BADC-CSV Format for Data Exchange users guide website
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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MIDAS User Guide version v20200921
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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Met Office Global Radiosonde Data
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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BADC Doc: WMO Meteorological codes
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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Met Office Integrated Data Archive System (MIDAS) Land and Marine Surface Stations Data (1853-current)
No further details.
- Quality Scope
- series
Report
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 8ee156b6ed41b153e85dbf02a4134513 XML
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
- Resource type
- series
- Hierarchy level name
- series
- Metadata Date
- 2024-04-22T00:29:23
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3