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HadISD: Global sub-daily, surface meteorological station data, 1931-2017, v2.0.2.2017f

This is version 2.0.2.2017f of Met Office Hadley Centre's Integrated Surface Database, HadISD. These data are global sub-daily surface meteorological data that extends HadISD v2.0.1.2016p to include 2017 and so spans 1931-2017, it replaces the preliminary version (v2.0.2.2017p) as the ISD data for 2017 are now finalised.

The quality controlled variables in this dataset are: temperature, dewpoint temperature, sea-level pressure, wind speed and direction, cloud data (total, low, mid and high level). Past significant weather and precipitation data are also included, but have not been quality controlled, so their quality and completeness cannot be guaranteed. Quality control flags and data values which have been removed during the quality control process are provided in the qc_flags and flagged_values fields, and ancillary data files show the station listing with a station listing with IDs, names and location information.

The data are provided as one NetCDF file per station. Files in the station_data folder station data files have the format "station_code"_HadISD_HadOBS_19310101-20171231_v2-0-2-2017f.nc. The station codes can be found under the docs tab or on the archive beside the station_data folder. The station codes file has five columns as follows: 1) station code, 2) station name 3) station latitude 4) station longitude 5) station height.

To keep informed about updates, news and announcements follow the HadOBS team on twitter @metofficeHadOBS.

For more detailed information e.g bug fixes, routine updates and other exploratory analysis, see the HadISD blog: http://hadisd.blogspot.co.uk/

For a more detailed description of precipitation see: http://hadisd.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/precipitation-in-hadisd.html

References:

When using the dataset in a paper you must cite the following papers (see Docs for link to the publications) and this dataset (using the "citable as" reference) :

Dunn, R. J. H., Willett, K. M., Parker, D. E., and Mitchell, L.: Expanding HadISD: quality-controlled, sub-daily station data from 1931, Geosci. Instrum. Method. Data Syst., 5, 473-491, doi:10.5194/gi-5-473-2016, 2016.

Dunn, R. J. H., et al. (2012), HadISD: A Quality Controlled global synoptic report database for selected variables at long-term stations from 1973-2011, Clim. Past, 8, 1649-1679, 2012, doi:10.5194/cp-8-1649-2012

Smith, A., N. Lott, and R. Vose, 2011: The Integrated Surface Database: Recent Developments and Partnerships. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 92, 704–708, doi:10.1175/2011BAMS3015.1

For a homogeneity assessment of HadISD please see this following reference

Dunn, R. J. H., K. M. Willett, C. P. Morice, and D. E. Parker. "Pairwise homogeneity assessment of HadISD." Climate of the Past 10, no. 4 (2014): 1501-1522. doi:10.5194/cp-10-1501-2014, 2014.

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Date (Publication)
2018-03-28T10:17:13
Date (Creation)
2018-03-28T10:17:13
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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / acee665e3e664a73b8ad247e99b343d5
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  Met Office Hadley Centre (MOHC) - author
FitzRoy Road , Exeter , EX1 3PB , UK
Author
  National Centers for Environmental Information - NOAA (NCEI-NOAA) - author
National Centers for Environmental Information Federal Building , 151 Patton Avenue , Asheville , NC 28801-5 , USA
Custodian
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - custodian
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Owner
  Met Office Hadley Centre (MOHC) - data_owner
FitzRoy Road , Exeter , EX1 3PB , UK
Distributor
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - distributor
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
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Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
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Keywords
  • temperature
  • dewpoint
  • pressure
  • wind
  • speed
  • direction
  • cloud
  • precipitation
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • atmospheric conditions
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Under the following licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/non-commercial-government-licence/version/2/, appropriate use of these data may fall under personal, academic and 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.
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1931-01-01T00:00:00
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2017-12-31T23:59:59
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HadISD v2 reference paper: Dunn, R. J. H., Willett, K. M., Parker, D. E., and Mitchell, L.: Expanding HadISD: quality-controlled, sub-daily station data from 1931, Geosci. Instrum. Method. Data Syst., 5, 473-491, doi:10.5194/gi-5-473-2016, 2016.

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Dunn, R. J. H. et al., HadISD: a quality-controlled global synoptic report database for selected variables at long-term stations from 1973-2011, Climate of the Past, 8, 2012, 5, 1649-1679, DOI:10.5194/cp-8-1649-2012

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Precipitation in HadISD

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Integrated surface database reference paper

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HadISD v202 station ID codes

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2010-12-08
Statement
HadISD the global sub-daily station dataset was produced by the Met Office Hadley Centre. It was derived from the Integrated Surface Dataset (ISD) from NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). HadISD has been passed to the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) for archiving and distribution.
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Date stamp
2025-11-15T03:15:49
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
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Point of contact
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
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