Dataset Record

MIDAS: UK Daily 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 UK daily weather observation data contain meteorological values measured on a 24 hour time scale. The measurements of sunshine duration, concrete state, snow depth, fresh snow depth, and days of snow, hail, thunder and gail were attained by observation stations across the UK and transmitted within DLY3208, NCM, AWSDLY and SYNOP messages. The data span from 1880 to present.

Citable as: Met Office (2006): MIDAS: UK Daily Weather Observation Data. NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre, date of citation. http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/954d743d1c07d1dd034c131935db54e0

Keywords: Met Office, MIDAS, UK, meteorology, daily, diurnal, monthly

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In support of:

Project: Met Office Integrated Data Archive System (MIDAS)

Dataset is part of:

Dataset Collection: Met Office Integrated Data Archive System (MIDAS) Land a...

Previous Info:

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Previously used record identifiers:

http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/badc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__ACTIVITY_376a229e-d7c4-11e1-b950-00163e251233

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.

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

Station Observer

Deployed on: Land SYNOP (surface synoptic observations) Station Network

Sunshine Recorder

Deployed on: Land SYNOP (surface synoptic observations) Station Network

Cloud Recorder

Deployed on: Land SYNOP (surface synoptic observations) Station Network

Snow Depth Sensor