Dataset
MIDAS Open: UK soil temperature data, v201901
Abstract
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 2017.
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 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.
Details
| Previous Info: |
No news update for this record
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| Previously used record identifiers: |
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
| MIDAS User Guide version v20200921 |
| Information on versioning in MIDAS data |
| Met Office Fact sheet 17 Weather observations over land |
| MIDAS Open User Guide |
Citations: 13
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.
| Met Office (2019) MIDAS Open: UK daily rainfall data, v201901. https://doi.org/10.5285/EC54D5E5288A4EBB8C7AD2A1EF6AEC42 https://doi.org/10.5285/ec54d5e5288a4ebb8c7ad2a1ef6aec42 |
| Met Office (2019) MIDAS Open: UK daily rainfall data, v201908. https://doi.org/10.5285/CB47CC464C5A41DE8C718D117437B4E6 https://doi.org/10.5285/cb47cc464c5a41de8c718d117437b4e6 |
| Met Office (2019) MIDAS Open: UK daily temperature data, v201901. https://doi.org/10.5285/A39ADD95A8DC49709F6E984C020C8DBC https://doi.org/10.5285/a39add95a8dc49709f6e984c020c8dbc |
| Met Office (2019) MIDAS Open: UK daily temperature data, v201908. https://doi.org/10.5285/B37382E8C1E74B849831A5FA13AFDCAE https://doi.org/10.5285/b37382e8c1e74b849831a5fa13afdcae |
| Met Office (2019) MIDAS Open: UK daily weather observation data, v201901. https://doi.org/10.5285/0049795739E44310A4982E26D8E26748 https://doi.org/10.5285/0049795739e44310a4982e26d8e26748 |
| Met Office (2019) MIDAS Open: UK daily weather observation data, v201908. https://doi.org/10.5285/6AD6792F44C84C228651B01D182D9D73 https://doi.org/10.5285/6ad6792f44c84c228651b01d182d9d73 |
| Met Office (2019) MIDAS Open: UK soil temperature data, v201908. https://doi.org/10.5285/9972BC173EF94068B2070D4B26F849A7 https://doi.org/10.5285/9972bc173ef94068b2070d4b26f849a7 |
| Met Office (2020) MIDAS Open: UK daily rainfall data, v202007. https://doi.org/10.5285/EC9E894089434B03BD9532D7B343EC4B https://doi.org/10.5285/ec9e894089434b03bd9532d7b343ec4b |
| Met Office (2020) MIDAS Open: UK soil temperature data, v202007. https://doi.org/10.5285/85B9DAD7AF814BFA9047A525927257F4 https://doi.org/10.5285/85b9dad7af814bfa9047a525927257f4 |
| Met Office (2021) MIDAS Open: UK daily rainfall data, v202107. https://doi.org/10.5285/D6BCF4171C2F4754A7455D00DEDA0F72 https://doi.org/10.5285/d6bcf4171c2f4754a7455d00deda0f72 |
| Met Office (2021) MIDAS Open: UK soil temperature data, v202107. https://doi.org/10.5285/CABC37D867FA4F2A84302350DF908693 https://doi.org/10.5285/cabc37d867fa4f2a84302350df908693 |
| Met Office (2022) MIDAS Open: UK daily temperature data, v202207. https://doi.org/10.5285/8BCF6925CDDC4681B96F94D424537B9E https://doi.org/10.5285/8bcf6925cddc4681b96f94d424537b9e |
| Met Office (2022) MIDAS Open: UK soil temperature data, v202207. https://doi.org/10.5285/4ECBF3FA1B084C5A9080248433275124 https://doi.org/10.5285/4ecbf3fa1b084c5a9080248433275124 |
Process overview
Instrument/Platform pairings
| Output Description | None |
- long_name: 100cm soil temperature
- long_name: 10cm soil temperature
- long_name: 20cm soil temperature
- long_name: 30cm soil temperature
- long_name: 50cm soil temperature
- long_name: 5cm soil temperature
- long_name: Date and time of observation
- long_name: Descriptor: 100cm soil temperature
- long_name: Descriptor: 10cm soil temperature
- long_name: Descriptor: 20cm soil temperature
- long_name: Descriptor: 30cm soil temperature
- long_name: Descriptor: 50cm soil temperature
- long_name: Descriptor: 5cm soil temperature
- long_name: Elapsed time to storage in MIDAS
- long_name: Met Office receipt stamp time
- long_name: QC code: 100cm soil temperature
- long_name: QC code: 10cm soil temperature
- long_name: QC code: 20cm soil temperature
- long_name: QC code: 30cm soil temperature
- long_name: QC code: 50cm soil temperature
- long_name: QC code: 5cm soil temperature
- 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
1900-01-02T09:00:00
2017-12-31T23:59:59
Geographic Extent
60.7592° |
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-5.5424° |
1.7400° |
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50.1172° |