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.

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

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Keywords

Met Office
MetDB
meteorology
SYNOP
AMDARS
wind
temperature
humidity
WMO

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

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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

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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: BADC Doc: MetDB WINPRO data
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OnLine resource: BADC Doc: MetDB RASS data
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OnLine resource: BADC Doc: MetDB Ship SYNOP data
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OnLine resource: BADC Doc: MetDB AMDARS data
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OnLine resource: BADC Doc: MetDB Land SYNOP data
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OnLine resource: Met Office website
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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 Hadley Centre website
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OnLine resource: Met Office high resolution radiosonde data from the UK, Gibralta, St Helena and the Falkland Islands
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OnLine resource: BADC-CSV Format for Data Exchange users guide website
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OnLine resource: MIDAS User Guide version v20200921
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OnLine resource: Met Office Global Radiosonde Data
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OnLine resource: BADC Doc: WMO Meteorological codes
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OnLine resource: Met Office Integrated Data Archive System (MIDAS) Land and Marine Surface Stations Data (1853-current)
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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: 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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