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Dataset

 

MIDAS Open: UK daily temperature data, v202407

Update Frequency: Not Planned
Status: Completed
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Citable
Publication Date: 2024-08-06
DOI Publication Date: 2024-08-06
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 64.76K Files | 2GB

Abstract

The UK daily temperature data contain maximum and minimum temperatures (air, grass and concrete slab) measured over a period of up to 24 hours. The measurements were recorded by observation stations operated by the Met Office across the UK and transmitted within NCM, DLY3208 or AWSDLY messages. The data span from 1853 to 2023. For details on measurement techniques, including calibration information and changes in measurements, see section 5.2 of the MIDAS User Guide linked to from this record. Soil temperature data may be found in the UK soil temperature datasets linked from this record.

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. These include the addition of data for calendar year 2023.

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. Currently this represents approximately 95% of available daily temperature observations within the full MIDAS collection.

Citable as:  Met Office (2024): MIDAS Open: UK daily temperature data, v202407. NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, 06 August 2024. doi:10.5285/b7c6295b72c54fa9bcd8308fea2727e7. https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/b7c6295b72c54fa9bcd8308fea2727e7
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: Met Office, MIDAS, UK, meteorology, temperature, diurnal, daily, monthly

Details

Previous Info:
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Previously used record 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.
File Format:
Data are BADC-CSV formatted.

Process overview

This dataset was generated by instruments deployed on platforms as listed below.
Output Description

None

No variables found.

Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
1853-01-01T00:00:00
End time:
2023-12-31T23:59:59
Geographic Extent

 
60.7592°
 
-5.5424°
 
1.7400°
 
50.1172°
 
Related parties
Authors (1)
Funders (1)
Principal Investigators (1)