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MIDAS Open: UK daily rainfall data, v201908
The UK daily rainfall data contain rainfall accumulation and precipitation amounts over a 24 hour period. The data were collected by observation stations operated by the Met Office across the UK and transmitted within the following message types: NCM, AWSDLY, DLY3208 and SSER. The data spans from 1853 to 2018. Over time a range of rain gauges have been used - see section 5.6 and the relevant message type information in the linked MIDAS User Guide for further details.
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.
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. A large proportion of the UK raingauge observing network (associated with WAHRAIN, WADRAIN and WAMRAIN for hourly, daily and monthly rainfall measurements respectively) is operated by other agencies beyond the Met Office, and are consequently currently excluded from the Midas-open dataset. Currently this represents approximately 13% of available daily rainfall observations within the full MIDAS collection.
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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2019-10-30T15:34:08
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2019-10-30T15:34:08
- Identifier
- Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / cb47cc464c5a41de8c718d117437b4e6
- Identifier
- doi / http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/cb47cc464c5a41de8c718d117437b4e6
- Maintenance and update frequency
- notPlanned
- Update scope
- dataset
- Keywords
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- Met Office
- MIDAS
- UK
- meteorology
- rainfall
- diurnal
- daily
- monthly
- 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
- 1853-01-02T00:00:00
- 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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Met Office Fact sheet 17 Weather observations over land
No further details.
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Change log for UK daily rainfall dataset between version v201901 and v201908 (this version)
No further details.
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Individual station change logs for the UK daily rainfall dataset between version v201901 and v201908 (this version)
No further details.
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MIDAS Open User Guide
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MIDAS User Guide version v20200921
No further details.
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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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Met Office Fact sheet 17 Weather observations over land
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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Change log for UK daily rainfall dataset between version v201901 and v201908 (this version)
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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Individual station change logs for the UK daily rainfall dataset between version v201901 and v201908 (this version)
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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MIDAS Open User Guide
No further details.
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MIDAS User Guide version v20200921
No further details.
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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
- cb47cc464c5a41de8c718d117437b4e6 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
- 2023-11-24T00:32:08
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
