Dataset
MIDAS: UK Daily Weather Observation Data
Update Frequency: Monthly
Latest Data Update: 2023-06-12
Status: Ongoing
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Published
Publication Date: 2006-07-27
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 143 Files | 3GB
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. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/954d743d1c07d1dd034c131935db54e0/
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: Met Office, MIDAS, UK, meteorology, daily, diurnal, monthly
Details
| Previous Info: |
No news update for this record
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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
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| Access rules: |
These data have multiple licences for different applications. Always make sure to read the appropriate licence for full data usage limitations details. Other usage may not be permitted.
Restricted data: please submit an application using the REQUEST ACCESS link for access. Use of these data is covered by the following licence(s): https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/ukmo_agreement.pdf https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/ukmo_agreement_gov.pdf When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record. |
| 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.
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| File Format: |
Data are ASCII formatted
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Process overview
This dataset was generated by instruments deployed on platforms as listed below.
Instrument/Platform pairings
| Output Description | None |
- long_name: 24 Hour Rainfall
- names: 24 Hour Rainfall
- long_name: Day Of Snow
- names: Day Of Snow
- long_name: Day Of Thunder
- names: Day Of Thunder
- long_name: Duration Of Rain
- names: Duration Of Rain
- long_name: Fresh Snow Depth
- names: Fresh Snow Depth
- long_name: Ice
- names: Ice
- long_name: Lightning
- gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P041/4/G171
- gcmd_keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Electricity > Lightning
- names: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P041/4/G171, EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Electricity > Lightning
- long_name: Rain
- gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P041/4/G288
- gcmd_keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Precipitation > Rain
- names: EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Precipitation > Rain, http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P041/4/G288
- long_name: Snow
- gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P041/4/G290
- gcmd_keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Precipitation > Snow
- names: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P041/4/G290, EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Precipitation > Snow
- long_name: Snow Cover
- gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0766
- gcmd_keyword: Snow Cover
- names: Snow Cover, http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0766
- long_name: Snow Depth
- gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0768
- gcmd_keyword: Snow Depth
- names: Snow Depth, http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0768
- long_name: Snow Lying
- names: Snow Lying
- long_name: Sunshine
- gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P041/4/G217
- gcmd_keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Radiation > Sunshine
- names: EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Radiation > Sunshine, http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P041/4/G217
- long_name: Sunshine Amount
- names: Sunshine Amount
Co-ordinate Variables
Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
1880-04-01T00:00:00
End time:
Ongoing
Geographic Extent
60.7592° |
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-5.5424° |
1.7400° |
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50.1172° |
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