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Met Office MetDB system: Surface, upper air and satellite data

Observational data extracted from the Met Office's MetDB system. Data include surface and upper air observations and some satellite data. These data are from a number of different message types covering data from land and ship surface data measurements through to upper air observations from wind profilers, radiosonde ascents and aircraft measurements and also satellite measurements.

Data arrive at the Met Office as per standard messages transmitted from source (e.g. SYNOP, METARS, TEMP message types) and are then decoded within the MetDB system. CEDA receives a text output from the MetDB system of these deciphered messages which are then processed into the BADC-CSV format where possible. Messages are split up by observation date at this stage. METARS and CLIMAT data are not decoded by the Met Office and are stored as per the original message. Details about the contents of each message type are given in the links in the 'online resources' section of this record. "Raw" data for all message types are available through the /raw folder within the archive. Each raw file contains messages received within a given period of time at the Met Office and are not sorted by observation date.

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Date (Publication)
2008-12-10T03:20:04
Date (Creation)
2008-12-10T03:20:04
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/8ee156b6ed41b153e85dbf02a4134513
Identifier
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 8ee156b6ed41b153e85dbf02a4134513
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
  • Met Office
  • MetDB
  • meteorology
  • SYNOP
  • AMDARS
  • wind
  • temperature
  • humidity
  • WMO
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • atmospheric conditions
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
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
2009-04-30T23:00:00
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
Distribution format
  • Contact data centre for format details. ()

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
BADC Doc: MetDB WINPRO data

No further details.

OnLine resource
BADC Doc: MetDB RASS data

No further details.

OnLine resource
BADC Doc: MetDB Ship SYNOP data

No further details.

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BADC Doc: MetDB AMDARS data

No further details.

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BADC Doc: MetDB Land SYNOP data

No further details.

OnLine resource
Met Office website

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OnLine resource
Met Office UK climate summaries website

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Met Office UK climate website

No further details.

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Met Office Hadley Centre website

No further details.

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Met Office high resolution radiosonde data from the UK, Gibralta, St Helena and the Falkland Islands

No further details.

OnLine resource
BADC-CSV Format for Data Exchange users guide website

No further details.

OnLine resource
MIDAS User Guide version v20200921

No further details.

OnLine resource
Met Office Global Radiosonde Data

No further details.

OnLine resource
BADC Doc: WMO Meteorological codes

No further details.

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

No further details.

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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
8ee156b6ed41b153e85dbf02a4134513 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
2025-11-15T03:26:32
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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Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
atmospheric conditions

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