The Armagh Observatory Climate Observation Data (1796-present)

Data from the Armagh Observatory, founded in 1790 by Archbishop Richard Robinson. There are around 25 astronomers who are actively studying Stellar Astrophysics, the Sun, Solar System astronomy, and the Earth's climate. As well as astronomical observations various meteorological parameters have been recorded since 1794. The data held at the BADC are daily, mean monthly and seasonal and annual maximum and minimum temperatures from 1844, the 1m and 30 cm depth soil temperatures since 1904, precipitation since 1838 and sunshine daily and mean data produced by Armagh Observatory. If users wish to find data from other areas of work undertaken by the observatory they should visit the Armagh Observatory website.

Date (Publication): 2006-12-10T02:39:59

Date (Creation): 2006-12-10T02:39:59

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/2bca5457886c9352197c0fe9b7122418

Citation identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 2bca5457886c9352197c0fe9b7122418

Point of contact

Organisation name	Electronic mail address	Role
Armagh Observatory	unknown	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

Armagh Observatory
Historic observations
meteorology

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

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Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 1796-02-17T00:01:15

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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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/2bca5457886c9352197c0fe9b7122418	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://star.arm.ac.uk/	Armagh Observatory website

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/armagh/The_Storminess_Record_from_Armagh_Observatory_Dr4.pdf	Meteorological Data recorded at Armagh Observatory: Volume 5 - The Storm and Gale Chronology 1796-2002

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/armagh/sun-text-plus-tabs.pdf	Meteorological Data recorded at Armagh Observatory: Volume 10 - Daily, Monthly, Seasonal and Annual Hours of Bright Sunshine 1880 - 2004

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/armagh/445.pdf	Air Temperatures at Armagh Observatory, Northern Ireland, from 1796 to 2002

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/armagh/precipitation.pdf	Precipitation at Armagh Observatory 1838-1997

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/armagh/soilT_Garcia-Suarez_2005.pdf	Soil Temperatures at Armagh Observatory, N. Ireland, from 1904 to 2002

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/armagh/cal-proc2.pdf	Meteorological Data recorded at Armagh Observatory:Volume 1 - Daily, Monthly and Annual Rainfall 1838 - 2001 report

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/armagh/yellow-textD.pdf	Meteorological Data recorded at Armagh Observatory:Volume 2 - Daily, Mean monthly, Seasonal and Annual, Maximum and Minimum Temperatures, 1844-2004 report

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/armagh/soil11.pdf	Meteorological Data recorded at Armagh Observatory: Volume 4 - Daily, Monthly and Annual Soil Temperatures, 1904-2002

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/armagh/Met-Data-Vol6.pdf	Meteorological Data recorded at Armagh Observatory: Volume 6 - daily, Monthly, Seasonal and Annual Air Temperatures at Armagh Observatory from Series I (1796-1882) including the Dunsink Patch (1825-1833) and Series III (1844-1964)

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://zenodo.org/record/7356793	Meteorological Data recorded at Armagh Observatory: Vol 3 - Meta-data, 1796-2003.

Hierarchy level: Series

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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: 2bca5457886c9352197c0fe9b7122418 XML

Metadata language: English

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Hierarchy level: Series

Hierarchy level name: series

Date stamp: 2025-06-17T02:26:47

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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