Name: MIDAS: UK Daily Rainfall Data
Published: 2006-07-26T14:55:15+00:00
License: http://licences.ceda.ac.uk/image/data_access_condition/ukmo_agreement.pdf
Keywords: Met Office, MIDAS, UK, meteorology, rainfall, diurnal, daily, monthly

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MIDAS: UK Daily Rainfall Data

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Update Frequency: Monthly

Status: Ongoing

Online Status: ONLINE

Publication State: Published

Publication Date: 2006-07-26

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Abstract

The UK daily rainfall data describe the rainfall accumulation and precipitation amount over a 24 hour period. The data are collected by observation stations across the UK and transmitted within the following message types: WADRAIN, NCM, AWSDLY, DLY3208, SSER and WAMRAIN. The data spans from 1853 to present.

Citable as: Met Office (2006): MIDAS: UK Daily Rainfall Data. NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/c732716511d3442f05cdeccbe99b8f90

Abbreviation: Not defined

Keywords: Met Office, MIDAS, UK, meteorology, rainfall, diurnal, daily, monthly

Datasets (1)

Variant forms of this dataset are available:

MIDAS Open: UK daily rainfall data, v201901	Register/Login for access Explore More Info

Collections (1)

Dataset is part of these larger Dataset Collections:

Met Office Integrated Data Archive System (MIDAS) Land and Marine Surface Stations Data (1853-current)	See Related Datasets More Info

Projects (1)

Dataset supports the following projects:

Met Office Integrated Data Archive System (MIDAS)	See Related Datasets More Info

Details

Previous Info:	No news update for this record
Previously used record identifiers:	http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/badc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__ACTIVITY_e8419d56-d731-11e1-b5aa-00163e251233
Access rules:	Restricted data: please submit an application using the REQUEST ACCESS link for access. Use of these data is covered by the following licence: http://licences.ceda.ac.uk/image/data_access_condition/ukmo_agreement.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.
File Format:	Data are ASCII formatted

Process overview

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

Instrument/Platform pairings

Raingauge	Deployed on: DLY3208 (Daily observations from Metform 3208) Station Network
Raingauge	Deployed on: SSER (Solid State Event Recorder) Station Network
Raingauge	Deployed on: WADRAIN (Water Authorities Daily RAINfall) Station Network
Raingauge	Deployed on: WAMRAIN (Water Authorities Monthly RAINfall value) Station Network
Raingauge	Deployed on: NCM (National Climate Message) Station Network
Raingauge	Deployed on: AWSDLY (Automatic Weather Station Daily values) Station Network

Output Description	None

long_name: 12 Hours Rainfall Amount
names: 12 Hours Rainfall Amount

long_name: 24 Hour Rainfall
names: 24 Hour Rainfall

units: s
long_name: Date of observation
names: Date of observation

units: 1
long_name: Descriptor: precipitation amount
names: Descriptor: precipitation amount

long_name: Duration Of Rain
names: Duration Of Rain

units: minutes
long_name: Elapsed time to storage in MIDAS
names: Elapsed time to storage in MIDAS

units: s
long_name: Met Office receipt stamp time
names: Met Office receipt stamp time

units: day
long_name: Observation day count
names: Observation day count

units: mm
long_name: Precipitation amount
names: Precipitation amount

units: 1
long_name: QC code: observation day count
names: QC code: observation day count

units: 1
long_name: QC code: precipitation amount
names: QC code: precipitation amount

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

units: s
long_name: clock time at end of observation as HHMM
names: clock time at end of observation as HHMM

units: 1
long_name: identifier type
names: identifier type

units: 1
long_name: message type
names: message type

units: 1
long_name: midas qc version number
names: midas qc version number

units: 1
long_name: state indicator for the record
names: state indicator for the record

units: 1
long_name: station identifier
names: station identifier

units: 1
long_name: unique source identifier or station site number
names: unique source identifier or station site number

Co-ordinate Variables

CEDA Archive Web Download Service
CEDA FTP download service
CEDA OPeNDAP service
Search for Met Office MIDAS Stations
Subset with CEDA Web Processing Service
Find MIDAS stations using WPS tool

Coverage

Temporal Range

Start time:

1853-01-02T00:00:00

End time:

Ongoing

Geographic Extent

	60.7592°
-5.5424°		1.7400°
	50.1172°

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