MIDAS: Global Weather Observation Data
Dataset
Update Frequency: Monthly
Status: Ongoing
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Published
Publication Date: 2006-07-27
DOI Publication Date: No DOI
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Abstract
The global weather observation data contain meteorological values observed at 3-hrly intervals by non-UK stations, as reported in SYNOP and METAR codes. The messages contain measurements of the concrete state, wind speed and direction, cloud type and amount, visibility, temperature, sunshine duration, precipitation amount, and present and past weather. The data span from 1974 to present.
Citable as: Met Office (2006): MIDAS: Global Weather Observation Data. NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre, date of citation. http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/0ec59f09b3158829a059fe70b17de951
Keywords: Met Office, MIDAS, meteorology, global
In support of:
Dataset is part of:
Dataset Collection: Met Office Integrated Data Archive System (MIDAS) Land a... 
Previously used record identifiers:
http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/badc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__ACTIVITY_46155cd8-d7d2-11e1-bf5e-00163e251233
Access rules:
Restricted data: please submit an application using the REQUEST ACCESS link for access.
Use of these data is covered by the following licence: http://licences.ceda.ac.uk/image/data_access_condition/ukmo_agreement.pdf. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
Use of these data is covered by the following licence: http://licences.ceda.ac.uk/image/data_access_condition/ukmo_agreement.pdf. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
Abbreviation:
Not defined
Data lineage:
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 BADC approximately on a monthly basis as flat files.
Data Quality:
Data undergo quality checking by the Met Office. State of the data in the quality control process and level of data quality are indicated using version numbers and quality control flagging with the data. See documentation about how to use the quality control flagging and version numbers.
There are also some known data from commissioning trials in the data, which are given a src_id of 99999. These should be ignored by the user.
File Format:
Data are ASCII formatted
Process overview
This dataset was generated by instruments deployed on platforms as listed below.
Instrument/Platform pairings
Output Description
None
DAYOFSNOW
DAYOFTHUNDER
DIFFUSESOLARIRRADIATIONAMOUNT
DIRECTSOLARIRRADIATIONAMOUNT
DURATIONOFRAIN
FRESHSNOWDEPTH
GLOBALSOLARIRRADIATIONAMOUNT
HOURLYSUNSHINE
ICE
LIGHTNING
RAIN
SNOW
SNOWCOVER
SNOWDEPTH
SNOWLYING
SOLARIRRADIANCE
SUNSHINE
SUNSHINEAMOUNT
The following comments have been made regarding this dataset
Monthly CSV files will allow us (CEDA) to provi...
By Ag Stephens on 24 June 2016.
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This data is currently archived in yearly CSV f...
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Temporal Range
1974-01-01T00:00:00
Ongoing
Geographic Extent
| 90.0000° | ||||
| -180.0000° | 180.0000° | |||
| -90.0000° |
Authors (1)
Publishers (1)
