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MIDAS Open: UK hourly weather observation data, v201901
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 2017.
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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- Date (Publication)
- 2019-02-12T11:15:49
- Date (Creation)
- 2019-02-12T11:15:49
- Identifier
- Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / c58c1af69b9745fda4cdf487a9547185
- Identifier
- doi / http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/c58c1af69b9745fda4cdf487a9547185
- Maintenance and update frequency
- notPlanned Not planned
- Update scope
- dataset Dataset
- Keywords
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- Met Office
- MIDAS
- UK
- meteorology
- hourly
- 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
- 1875-01-01T09:00:00
- End date
- 2017-12-31T23:59:59
- 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
Detail and access information for the resource
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DOWNLOAD
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- OnLine resource
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MIDAS User Guide version v20200921
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- OnLine resource
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Met Office Fact sheet 17 Weather observations over land
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- OnLine resource
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MIDAS Open User Guide
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Information on versioning in MIDAS data
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- Hierarchy level
- 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
- c58c1af69b9745fda4cdf487a9547185 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
- 2025-05-09T02:26:37
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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