Met Office Integrated Data Archive System (MIDAS) Land and Marine Surface Stations Data (1853-current)

Land surface and marine surface observations data from the Met Office station network and other world wide stations as stored in the Met Office MIDAS database. Data are available for the period 1853 to present. The dataset comprises daily and hourly weather measurements, hourly wind parameters, max and min air temperatures, soil temperatures, sunshine duration and radiation measurements and daily, hourly and sub-hourly rain measurements, some climatology data and marine observations (including sea surface temperature, swell and wave associated parameters). This dataset collection supersedes the Met Office Land Surface Stations Dataset collection (1900-2000), also archived at the BADC.

Date (Publication): 2012-12-10T02:45:30

Date (Creation): 2012-12-10T02:45:30

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/220a65615218d5c9cc9e4785a3234bd0

Citation identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 220a65615218d5c9cc9e4785a3234bd0

Point of contact

Organisation name	Electronic mail address	Role
Met Office	enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk	Author
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)	badc@rl.ac.uk	Custodian
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)	badc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)	badc@rl.ac.uk	pointofContact
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)	badc@rl.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Update scope: Series

Keywords

MIDAS
Met Office
meteorology
sea

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Access to data within this collection is restricted. Please see the individual datasets within this collection for further access details.

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/ukmo_agreement.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under academic use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.

Other constraints: Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/ukmo_agreement_gov.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under policy use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.

Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 1853-01-01T00:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Name	Version
Contact data centre for format details.

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/220a65615218d5c9cc9e4785a3234bd0	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/a946415f9345f6da9bf4c475c19477b6	Met Office Hadley Centre Central England Temperature (HadCET) dataset

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.metoffice.com/climate/uk/index.html	Met Office UK climate summaries website

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.metoffice.com/climate/uk/averages/index.html	Met Office UK climate website

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.metoffice.com/climate/uk/networks/index.html	Met Office UK climate - Synoptic and climate stations

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/ea2d5d8bce505ad4b10e06b45191883b	Link to old Met Office Land Surface Stations Dataset collection (1900-2000)

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/surface/code.html	WMO Meteorological codes

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/ukmo-midas/ukmo_guide.html#6.2	Information on versioning in MIDAS data

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/content/assets/metofficegovuk/pdf/research/library-and-archive/library/publications/factsheets/factsheet_17-observations.pdf	Met Office Fact sheet 17 Weather observations over land

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://zenodo.org/record/7357325	MIDAS User Guide version v20200921

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://archive.ceda.ac.uk/tools/midas_stations	MIDAS Station Search

Hierarchy level: Series

Conformance result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Statement: Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.

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File identifier: 220a65615218d5c9cc9e4785a3234bd0 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Series

Hierarchy level name: series

Date stamp: 2025-06-06T02:26:09

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Point of contact

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