77910bcec71c820d4c92f40d3ed3f249 English 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 220a65615218d5c9cc9e4785a3234bd0 dataset NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) +44(0)1235 446432 British Atmospheric Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK badc@rl.ac.uk pointOfContact 2026-05-10T02:00:30 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 MIDAS: Global Marine Meteorological Observations Data 2006-08-07T14:58:31 publication 2006-08-07T14:58:31 creation https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/77910bcec71c820d4c92f40d3ed3f249 77910bcec71c820d4c92f40d3ed3f249 NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) The global marine meteorological observations data contains marine meteorological values, such as wave heights and periods, wind speed and direction, present weather, and air and sea temperature, measured during the hour ending at the stated date and time. The data is collected by worldwide observation stations and transmitted within the following message types: Ship SYNOP, which is also referred to as FM 13-IX SHIP, FM 18-X BUOY, Light Vessel, Marid, Marine logbooks, NAVY, OWS, PLAT/RIG, and VOF. In this dataset the different message types are all described by the SHIP message name. Data are available from 1854 to present. The data consist of: Offshore wind (speed and direction) Weather (present, past) Cloud (amount, type, base amount, base height) Pressure (mean sea level) Visibility Temperature (air, dew-point, wetbulb, sea) Relative humidity Wave (direction, period, height) Wind-wave (period, height) Swell (direction, -wave period, height) Ship direction and distance Maximum gust speed and period The wind speed is given to the nearest knot, direction to the nearest 10 degrees, and the time of the maximum gust is given to the nearest 0.1 hour. The wind direction from which the wind blows, is measured in Degrees (true). The entry for an east wind is 090, for a south wind it is 180 and so on clockwise. Note that zero values in both wind speed and wind direction fields indicate that there was no wind blowing at the time of observation. The temperature and dew point are given to the nearest 0.1 degree Celsius, the pressure is given to the nearest 0.1 hectopascal, the cloud base height and the visibility are given to the nearest decametre. Cloud amount is reported in oktas. The past weather is recorded as a number between 0-9 which details what the weather has been like in the last 6 hours for observations at 00, 06, 12, 1800 UTC, the last 3 hours for observations at 03, 09, 15, 2100 UTC and the previous hour at any other times. The past weather is only recorded when a manual observation is done at the station. Marine reports are defined by position (latitude and longitude) and by time. Duplicates can exist at a specified position and time, e.g. when ships are alongside for bunkering, so the identifier of the ship or buoy is part of the primary key of the entity. A great many ships do not include a valid call sign in their reports; the call sign may be missing or invalid. When this occurs, Midas will substitute the call sign value “SHIP”. Met Office author 0370 900 0100 Met Office FitzRoy Road Exeter EX1 3PB enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk author NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) custodian +44(0)1235 446432 British Atmospheric Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK badc@rl.ac.uk custodian NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) distributor +44(0)1235 446432 British Atmospheric Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK badc@rl.ac.uk distributor Met Office principal_investigator 0370 900 0100 Met Office FitzRoy Road Exeter EX1 3PB enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk principalInvestigator NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) point_of_contact +44(0)1235 446432 British Atmospheric Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK badc@rl.ac.uk pointofContact NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) publisher +44(0)1235 446432 British Atmospheric Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK badc@rl.ac.uk publisher monthly dataset Met Office MIDAS Marine Observations wave height PRECIPITATION ATMOSPHERE ATMOSPHERICPHENOMENA SNOW ATMOSPHERICRADIATION atmospheric conditions theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication otherRestrictions These data have multiple licences for different applications. Always make sure to read the appropriate licence for full data usage limitations details. Other usage may not be permitted. Restricted data: please submit an application using the REQUEST ACCESS link for access. otherRestrictions 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. 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. grid English climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere -180.0 180.0 -90.0 90.0 1854-01-01T00:00:00 Data are ASCII formatted NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) Data Center Contact +44(0)1235 446432 British Atmospheric Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK badc@rl.ac.uk distributor https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/77910bcec71c820d4c92f40d3ed3f249 CEDA Data Catalogue Page Detail and access information for the resource information http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ukmo-midas/data/MO DOWNLOAD Download Data download http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/marine/observations/gathering_data/MAWS.html Met Office - Marine Automatic Weather Station (MAWS) network doceumentation No further details. information https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/ukmo-midas/Headers/MO_Column_Headers.txt Link to column headings in comma separated text file No further details. information https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/ukmo-midas/Headers/MO_Column_Headers.xlsx Link to column headings in Excel file No further details. information https://zenodo.org/record/7357325 MIDAS User Guide version v20200921 No further details. information https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/ukmo-midas/ukmo_guide.html#6.2 Information on versioning in MIDAS data No further details. information https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/ukmo-midas/MO_Table.html BADC Doc: Global Marine Observations (MO) Table details No further details. information https://zenodo.org/record/7356545 Copy of Met Office Hadley Centre report on the "Digitization of Metform data and Conversion to Flatfile Integer Format" No further details. information https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7357248 Met Office MIDAS Quick User Guide No further details. information dataset 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 2010-12-08 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.