Dataset
MIDAS Open: UK hourly rainfall data, v201908
Abstract
The UK hourly rainfall data contain the rainfall amount (and duration from tilting syphon gauges) during the hour (or hours) ending at the specified time. The data also contains precipitation amounts, however precipitation measured over 24 hours are not stored. Over time a range of rain gauges have been used - see the linked MIDAS User Guide for further details.
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.
The data were collected by observation stations operated by the Met Office across the UK and transmitted within the following message types: NCM, AWSHRLY, DLY3208, SREW and SSER. The data spans from 1915 to 2018.
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. A large proportion of the UK raingauge observing network (associated with WAHRAIN, WADRAIN and WAMRAIN for hourly, daily and monthly rainfall measurements respectively) is operated by other agencies beyond the Met Office, and are consequently currently excluded from the Midas-open dataset.
Details
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No news update for this record
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No related previous identifiers.
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| Access rules: |
Access to these data is available to any registered CEDA user. Please Login or Register for a CEDA account to gain access.
Use of these data is covered by the following licence(s): 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. |
| 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 Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) approximately on a yearly basis. |
| 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 BADC-CSV formatted.
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Related Documents
Citations: 2
The following citations have been automatically harvested from external sources associated with this resource where DOI tracking is possible. As such some citations may be missing from this list whilst others may not be accurate. Please contact the helpdesk to raise any issues to help refine these citation trackings.
| McClean, F., Dawson, R. & Kilsby, C. (2023) Intercomparison of global reanalysis precipitation for flood risk modelling. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 27, 331–347. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-331-2023 https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-331-2023 |
| Zardi, G.I., Monsinjon, J.R., McQuaid, C.D., Seuront, L., Orostica, M., Want, A., Firth, L.B. & Nicastro, K.R. (2021) Foul‐weather friends: Modelling thermal stress mitigation by symbiotic endolithic microbes in a changing environment. Global Change Biology 27, 2549–2560. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15616 https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15616 |
Process overview
Instrument/Platform pairings
| Output Description | None |
- long_name: Date at end of observation period
- long_name: Descriptor: precipitation amount
- long_name: Elapsed time to storage in MIDAS
- long_name: Met Office receipt stamp time
- long_name: Observation hour count
- long_name: Precipitation amount
- long_name: Precipitation duration
- long_name: QC code: precipitation amount
- long_name: QC code: precipitation duration
- long_name: The filename used for this station
- long_name: The identifier associated with a particular report type for this station
- long_name: The identifier type associated with a particular reporting capability for this station
- long_name: The name for this station
- long_name: The station elevation
- long_name: The station latitude (WGS84)
- long_name: The station longitude (WGS84)
- long_name: The unique MIDAS identifier for the station
- long_name: first year of data associated with this id/id_type in this version of this dataset
- long_name: first year of data associated with this station in this dataset
- long_name: identifier type
- long_name: last year of data associated with this id/id_type in this version of this dataset
- long_name: last year of data associated with this station in this dataset
- long_name: message type
- long_name: midas qc version number
- long_name: state indicator for the record
- long_name: station identifier
- long_name: the historic county this station is within
- long_name: unique source identifier or station site number
Co-ordinate Variables
Temporal Range
1915-01-01T18:00:00
2018-12-31T23:59:59
Geographic Extent
60.8562° |
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-8.5636° |
1.7400° |
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49.9140° |