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Thunderstorm occurrence at ten sites across the UK digitsied from the UK Met Office Monthly Weather Records (1884-1993)

This dataset contains UK Met Office Daily Weather Reports (DWR) from ten sites from the UK Met Office Monthly Weather Records (1884-1993), using the recently-scanned UK Met Office Monthly Weather Reports (MWR). The data are presented as is, with no attempt to provide any corrections or calibration. Approximately half the stations exhibit sharp drops in thunderdays at various points between 1960 and 1990. Comparison with nearby Met Office Integrated Data Archive System (MIDAS) stations suggests the low thunderdays are the result of changes in observing practice, rather than genuine changes in thunderstorm occurrence. These potential data issues limit interpretation of the long-term trends.

DWR contain extensive logs of UK thunderstorm activity, in the form of thunderday observations. To date, only a very small fraction of these data have been digitised as part of the MIDAS dataset, and exclusively after 1950.

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Date (Publication)
2019-08-12T08:06:09
Date (Creation)
2019-08-12T08:06:09
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/2503df629a8a485e8582e5150876b210
Identifier
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 2503df629a8a485e8582e5150876b210
Identifier
doi / http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/2503df629a8a485e8582e5150876b210
Author
  Unavailable - Valdivieso, Maria ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Owens, Mathew ( author )
Custodian
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - custodian
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Distributor
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - distributor
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Principal investigator
  Met Office - principal_investigator
Met Office , FitzRoy Road , Exeter , EX1 3PB ,
0370 900 0100
Principal investigator
  Met Office - principal_investigator
Met Office , FitzRoy Road , Exeter , EX1 3PB ,
0370 900 0100
pointofContact
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - point_of_contact
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Publisher
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - publisher
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Maintenance and update frequency
unknown Unknown
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dataset Dataset
Keywords
  • Thunderstorms
  • UK
  • Weather reports
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • atmospheric conditions
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Other constraints
Under the following licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/, appropriate use of these data may fall under any 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.
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Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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Begin date
1884-01-01T00:00:00
End date
1993-12-30T23:59:59
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
Distribution format
  • Data are netCDF formatted ()

Distributor
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - Data Center Contact
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
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Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement
Data originates from the Met Office it has been digitised by the data provider without further QC by the Met Office and therefore the Met Office is currently unable to confirm the accuracy of the keying. They have been digitised and deposited at the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) for archiving.
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2503df629a8a485e8582e5150876b210 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
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Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2025-11-15T03:16:55
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
 
 

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
atmospheric conditions

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