85b9dad7af814bfa9047a525927257f4
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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
01235446432
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell
Oxon
OX11 0QX
United Kingdom
support@ceda.ac.uk
pointOfContact
2024-03-28T11:04:20
UK GEMINI
2.3
WGS 84
MIDAS Open: UK soil temperature data, v202007
2020-10-20T14:27:07
publication
2020-10-20T14:27:07
creation
http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/85b9dad7af814bfa9047a525927257f4
85b9dad7af814bfa9047a525927257f4
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
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The UK soil temperature data contain daily and hourly values of soil temperatures at depths of 5, 10, 20, 30, 50, and 100 centimetres. The measurements were recorded by observation stations operated by the Met Office across the UK and transmitted within NCM or DLY3208 messages. The data spans from 1900 to 2019.
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.
At many stations temperatures below the surface are measured at various depths. The depths used today are 5, 10, 20, 30 and 100cm, although measurements are not necessarily made at all these depths at a station and exceptionally measurements may be made at other depths. When imperial units were in general use, typically before 1961, the normal depths of measurement were 4, 8, 12, 24 and 48 inches.
Liquid-in-glass soil thermometers at a depth of 20 cm or less are unsheathed and have a bend in the stem between the bulb and the lowest graduation. At greater depths the thermometer is suspended in a steel tube and has its bulb encased in wax.
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.
Met Office
author
0370 900 0100
Met Office
FitzRoy Road
Exeter
EX1 3PB
enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk
author
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
custodian
01235446432
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell
Oxon
OX11 0QX
United Kingdom
support@ceda.ac.uk
custodian
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
distributor
01235446432
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell
Oxon
OX11 0QX
United Kingdom
support@ceda.ac.uk
distributor
Met Office
principal_investigator
0370 900 0100
Met Office
FitzRoy Road
Exeter
EX1 3PB
enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk
principalInvestigator
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
point_of_contact
01235446432
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell
Oxon
OX11 0QX
United Kingdom
support@ceda.ac.uk
pointofContact
Met Office
point_of_contact
0370 900 0100
Met Office
FitzRoy Road
Exeter
EX1 3PB
enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk
pointofContact
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
publisher
01235446432
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell
Oxon
OX11 0QX
United Kingdom
support@ceda.ac.uk
publisher
notPlanned
dataset
Met Office
MIDAS
UK
meteorology
soil temperatures
atmospheric conditions
theme
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
2008-06-01
publication
otherRestrictions
Access to these data is available to any registered CEDA user. Please Login or Register for an account to gain access.
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Use of these data is covered by the following licence: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ . When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
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climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
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1.74002
50.1172
60.7592
1900-01-01T00:00:00
2019-12-31T23:59:59
Data are BADC-CSV formatted.
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Data Center Contact
01235446432
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell
Oxon
OX11 0QX
United Kingdom
support@ceda.ac.uk
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http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/85b9dad7af814bfa9047a525927257f4
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http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ukmo-midas-open/data/uk-soil-temperature-obs/dataset-version-202007/
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http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ukmo-midas-open/data/uk-soil-temperature-obs/dataset-version-202007/midas-open_uk-soil-temperature-obs_dv-202007_change_log.txt
Change log for UK soil temperature dataset between version v2019018 and v202007 (this version)
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http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ukmo-midas-open/data/uk-soil-temperature-obs/dataset-version-202007/change_log_station_files
Individual station change logs for the UK soil temperature dataset between version v201908 and v202007 (this version)
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https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/content/assets/metofficegovuk/pdf/research/library-and-archive/library/publications/factsheets/factsheet_17-observations.pdf
Met Office Fact sheet 17 Weather observations over land
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https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/ukmo-midas/ukmo_guide.html#6.2
Information on versioning in MIDAS data
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https://help.ceda.ac.uk/article/4982-midas-open-user-guide
MIDAS Open User Guide
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https://zenodo.org/record/7357325
MIDAS User Guide version v20200921
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
2010-12-08
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.