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MIDAS Open: UK soil temperature data, v202107

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 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.

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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Metadata Language
English (en)
Dataset Reference Date ()
2021-08-26T09:51:08
Dataset Reference Date ()
2021-08-26T09:51:08
Identifier
http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/cabc37d867fa4f2a84302350df908693
Identifier
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / cabc37d867fa4f2a84302350df908693
Identifier
doi / 10.5285/cabc37d867fa4f2a84302350df908693
  Met Office - author
Met Office , FitzRoy Road , Exeter , EX1 3PB ,
0370 900 0100
  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - custodian
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - distributor
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
  Met Office - principal_investigator
Met Office , FitzRoy Road , Exeter , EX1 3PB ,
0370 900 0100
  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - point_of_contact
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
  Met Office - point_of_contact
Met Office , FitzRoy Road , Exeter , EX1 3PB ,
0370 900 0100
  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - publisher
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Maintenance and update frequency
notPlanned
Update scope
dataset
Keywords
  • Met Office
  • MIDAS
  • UK
  • meteorology
  • soil temperatures
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
  • atmospheric conditions
Limitations on Public Access
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Access to these data is available to any registered CEDA user. Please Login or Register for an account to gain access.
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Other constraints
Use of these data is covered by the following licence: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ . When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
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Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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Begin date
1900-01-01T00:00:00
End date
2020-12-31T23:59:59
 
Code
WGS 84

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  • Data are BADC-CSV formatted. ()

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Change log for UK soil temperature dataset for v202107 (this version)

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Individual station change logs for the UK soil temperature dataset for v202107 (this version)

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Met Office Fact sheet 17 Weather observations over land

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MIDAS Open User Guide

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MIDAS User Guide version v20200921

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Information on versioning in MIDAS data

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Change log for UK soil temperature dataset for v202107 (this version)

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Individual station change logs for the UK soil temperature dataset for v202107 (this version)

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Met Office Fact sheet 17 Weather observations over land

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MIDAS Open User Guide

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MIDAS User Guide version v20200921

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Information on versioning in MIDAS data

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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.

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cabc37d867fa4f2a84302350df908693 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
2023-12-05T00:34:01
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
 
 

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