Continuous hydrometeorological record (2004–2024) at the Met Office surface site of Cardington, UK Dataset Collection
This repository provides a continuous hydrometeorological record of the Met Office Observation-based research Boundary Layer Facility (BLF) at the semi-rural field site (14 Ha) of Cardington (52° 06′ N, 00° 25′ W, 29 m ± 1 m above mean sea level) in central-southern England between 2004 and 2024. The dataset contains recorded surface meteorology, radiation and subsoil from in-situ sensor measurements at four averaging periods, '01', '05', '10' or '30' minute intervals and measured by instruments mounted on 2 m, 10 m, 25 m and 50 m masts.
In addition, specialist remote-sensing instruments including microwave radiometers, Halo Doppler lidars, ceilometers and disdrometer datasets are provided.
A full list of NetCDF variables can be found in "Continuous meteorological surface and soil records (2004-2024) at the Met Office surface site of Cardington, UK." Osborne et al. ESSD (2025). This paper also provides a technical introduction to the Cardington site, core instrumentation, specialist radiometers, the land surface model (LSM) forcing dataset derived from the principal dataset and a description of the file formats used in the archived products. This paper should be referenced in any research/publications pertaining to this dataset collection.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2025-08-20T16:21:51
- Date (Creation)
- 2025-08-20T16:21:51
- Identifier
- NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / 5487380511084413a502c4b229273bc6
- Maintenance and update frequency
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- series Series
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- Cardington
- Met Office
- observation
- turbulence
- wind
- speed
- direction
- boundary
- layer
- temperature
- relative
- humidity
- flux
- upwelling
- shortwave
- longwave
- radiative
- radiation
- surface
- precipitation
- rainfall
- amount
- visibility
- soil
- moisture
- heat
- flux tower
- surface
- subsurface
- measurement
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- atmospheric conditions
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Please contact the data centre for assistance on accessing data from this dataset collection.
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Spatial representation type
- grid Grid
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Begin date
- 1996-05-22T07:56:00
- End date
- 2024-12-31T23:59:59
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
- Distribution format
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Contact data centre for format details.
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- OnLine resource
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- 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
- 5487380511084413a502c4b229273bc6 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
- 2025-11-15T03:28:42
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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