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EUMETNET Sandbox: Met Office WOW data v1

The Met Office WOW V1 dataset contains observations from all Public Weather Stations (PWS) contributing to WOW (Weather Observations Website) within Europe. The dataset is for a single year (2020), made available for use within the EUMETNET Sandbox project. EUMETNET (a grouping of 31 European National Meteorological Services) instigated the EUMETNET Sandbox project to bring novel observations and observations from technology trials and field campaigns to the research community to enable R&D activities.

The data are not quality controlled and are presented in the format provided by the Met Office. The data are provided in a single file per month.

The data were extracted from the WOW database using a latitude/longitude bounding box (North West corner 90N 70W to South East corner 10N 40E) so there are a small number of stations outside of Europe present.

The meteorological values are unchanged from those extracted from the WoW archive. For example, there is no Quality Control of the data, no calibration of the instruments and no unit conversions have been applied.

The data were extracted from the WoW archive by the Met Office operators of the WoW system. The data have not been manipulated to meet any international data format standards. The file names have been modified, from those provided by the Met Office, to contain location, data and status information.

The records for each station are comma separated. Not all sites report all variables, nor at all times. In most cases only the principle meteorological variables, e.g., Air temperature, Wet bulb, etc. are present. For a full list of available parameters within the files see the 'variables' information on this record.

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Date (Publication)
2021-10-18T14:35:32
Date (Creation)
2021-10-18T14:35:32
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/ea70491805b14edf957d69cbc27a8d81
Identifier
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / ea70491805b14edf957d69cbc27a8d81
Author
  Met Office - author
Met Office , FitzRoy Road , Exeter , EX1 3PB ,
0370 900 0100
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
Principal investigator
  Unavailable - Sugier, Jacqueline ( principal_investigator )
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
notPlanned Not planned
Update scope
dataset Dataset
Keywords
  • EUMETNET
  • WOW
  • meteorology
  • Europe
  • land
  • daily
  • hourly
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • atmospheric conditions
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
Restricted data: please submit an application using the REQUEST ACCESS link for access.
Use constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/ukmo-wow_runcgl_licence.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under specific 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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grid Grid
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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Begin date
2020-01-01T00:00:00
End date
2020-12-31T23:59:59
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
Distribution format
  • Data are ASCII formatted. ()

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

Detail and access information for the resource

OnLine resource
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OnLine resource
Met Office WOW (Weather Observations Website)

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OnLine resource
EUMETNET Sandbox Met Office WOW data file format description (only available to project participants)

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dataset Dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement
Data were extracted from the Met Office WOW (Weather Observers Website) database and prepared by the data provider before upload for archiving at the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA). Data were originally provided to WOW by Public Weather Stations (PWS) from a range of sites, mainly in Europe but some further afield. Data were provided with MD5s to allow checking of data during upload and ingest to ensure no corruptions.
File identifier
ea70491805b14edf957d69cbc27a8d81 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
Parent identifier
EUMETNET Sandbox: surface observations from Met Office WOW and Netatmo networks. 37d6ea7956a74af0bef827b94e0fb602
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2025-11-15T03:21:32
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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