Met Office Integrated Data Archive System (MIDAS) Land and Marine Surface Stations Data (1853-current)

Land surface and marine surface observations data from the Met Office station network and other world wide stations as stored in the Met Office MIDAS database. Data are available for the period 1853 to present. The dataset comprises daily and hourly weather measurements, hourly wind parameters, max and min air temperatures, soil temperatures, sunshine duration and radiation measurements and daily, hourly and sub-hourly rain measurements, some climatology data and marine observations (including sea surface temperature, swell and wave associated parameters). This dataset collection supersedes the Met Office Land Surface Stations Dataset collection (1900-2000), also archived at the BADC.

Date (Publication): 2012-12-10T02:45:30

Date (Creation): 2012-12-10T02:45:30

Identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/220a65615218d5c9cc9e4785a3234bd0

Identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 220a65615218d5c9cc9e4785a3234bd0

Author

Met Office - author

Met Office , FitzRoy Road , Exeter , EX1 3PB ,

0370 900 0100

Custodian

NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - custodian

British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

+44(0)1235 446432

Distributor

NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - distributor

British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

+44(0)1235 446432

pointofContact

NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - point_of_contact

British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

+44(0)1235 446432

Publisher

NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - publisher

British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

+44(0)1235 446432

Maintenance and update frequency: unknown Unknown

Update scope: series Series

Keywords

MIDAS
Met Office
meteorology
sea

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

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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 restrictions

Other constraints: Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/ukmo_agreement.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under academic 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.

Other constraints: Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/ukmo_agreement_gov.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under policy 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.

Spatial representation type: grid Grid

Metadata language: EnglishEnglish

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

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Begin date: 1853-01-01T00:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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Distributor

NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - Data Center Contact

British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

+44(0)1235 446432

OnLine resource: CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource

OnLine resource: Met Office Hadley Centre Central England Temperature (HadCET) dataset
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OnLine resource: Met Office UK climate summaries website
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OnLine resource: Met Office UK climate website
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OnLine resource: Met Office UK climate - Synoptic and climate stations
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OnLine resource: Link to old Met Office Land Surface Stations Dataset collection (1900-2000)
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OnLine resource: WMO Meteorological codes
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OnLine resource: Information on versioning in MIDAS data
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OnLine resource: Weather observations over land (Factsheet 17)
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OnLine resource: MIDAS User Guide version v20200921
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OnLine resource: MIDAS Station Search
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Hierarchy level: series Series

Conformance result

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Statement: Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.

File identifier: 220a65615218d5c9cc9e4785a3234bd0 XML

Metadata language: EnglishEnglish

Character set: 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8

Hierarchy level: series Series

Hierarchy level name: series

Date stamp: 2025-11-15T03:26:16

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Point of contact

NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)

British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

+44(0)1235 446432

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