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MIDAS Open: UK hourly rainfall data, v201908
The UK hourly rainfall data contain the rainfall amount (and duration from tilting syphon gauges) during the hour (or hours) ending at the specified time. The data also contains precipitation amounts, however precipitation measured over 24 hours are not stored. Over time a range of rain gauges have been used - see the linked MIDAS User Guide for further details.
This version supersedes the previous version of this dataset and a change log is available in the archive, and in the linked documentation for this record, detailing the differences between this version and the previous version. The change logs detail new, replaced and removed data.
The data were collected by observation stations operated by the Met Office across the UK and transmitted within the following message types: NCM, AWSHRLY, DLY3208, SREW and SSER. The data spans from 1915 to 2018.
This dataset is part of the Midas-open dataset collection made available by the Met Office under the UK Open Government Licence, containing only UK mainland land surface observations owned or operated by the Met Office. It is a subset of the fuller, restricted Met Office Integrated Data Archive System (MIDAS) Land and Marine Surface Stations dataset, also available through the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - see the related dataset section on this record. A large proportion of the UK raingauge observing network (associated with WAHRAIN, WADRAIN and WAMRAIN for hourly, daily and monthly rainfall measurements respectively) is operated by other agencies beyond the Met Office, and are consequently currently excluded from the Midas-open dataset.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2019-10-30T15:32:36
- Date (Creation)
- 2019-10-30T15:32:36
- Identifier
- Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / a58b9c8a724e4ec795a40a74455462b7
- Identifier
- doi / http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/a58b9c8a724e4ec795a40a74455462b7
- Maintenance and update frequency
- notPlanned Not planned
- Update scope
- dataset Dataset
- Keywords
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- Met Office
- MIDAS
- UK
- meteorology
- rainfall
- hourly
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- atmospheric conditions
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Access to these data is available to any registered CEDA user. Please Login or Register for a CEDA account to gain access.
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Spatial representation type
- grid Grid
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 1915-01-01T18:00:00
- End date
- 2018-12-31T23:59:59
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
- Distribution format
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Data are BADC-CSV formatted.
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Data are BADC-CSV formatted.
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- OnLine resource
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
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DOWNLOAD
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Information on versioning in MIDAS data
No further details.
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Change log for UK hourly rainfall dataset between version v201901 and v201908 (this version)
No further details.
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Individual station change logs for the UK hourly rainfall dataset between version v201901 and v201908 (this version)
No further details.
- OnLine resource
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MIDAS Open User Guide
No further details.
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MIDAS User Guide version v20200921
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- OnLine resource
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Weather observations over land (Factsheet 17)
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- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Data collated by the Met Office and archived in the Met Office's MIDAS database. Data are extracted from a sub-set of available tables and delivered to Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) approximately on a yearly basis.
- File identifier
- a58b9c8a724e4ec795a40a74455462b7 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
- Parent identifier
- Met Office MIDAS Open: UK Land Surface Stations Data (1853-current) dbd451271eb04662beade68da43546e1
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-15T03:17:09
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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