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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
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/5487380511084413a502c4b229273bc6
Identifier
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / 5487380511084413a502c4b229273bc6
Author
  Met Office - author
Met Office , FitzRoy Road , Exeter , EX1 3PB ,
0370 900 0100
Author
  Unavailable - McGregor, James ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Kerr-Munslow, Amanda ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Price, Jeremy ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Osborne, Simon ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Brooke, Jennifer ( author )
Custodian
  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - custodian
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Distributor
  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - distributor
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
pointofContact
  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - point_of_contact
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Publisher
  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
unknown Unknown
Update scope
series Series
Keywords
  • 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
  • atmospheric conditions
Access constraints
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Other constraints
Please contact the data centre for assistance on accessing data from this dataset collection.
Use constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
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
1996-05-22T07:56:00
End date
2024-12-31T23:59:59
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
Distribution format
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Distributor
  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - Data Center Contact
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
OnLine resource
CEDA Data Catalogue Page

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series Series

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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
Point of contact
  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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