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MIDAS Open: UK soil temperature data, v202007
The UK soil temperature data contain daily and hourly values of soil temperatures at depths of 5, 10, 20, 30, 50, and 100 centimetres. The measurements were recorded by observation stations operated by the Met Office across the UK and transmitted within NCM or DLY3208 messages. The data spans from 1900 to 2019.
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.
At many stations temperatures below the surface are measured at various depths. The depths used today are 5, 10, 20, 30 and 100cm, although measurements are not necessarily made at all these depths at a station and exceptionally measurements may be made at other depths. When imperial units were in general use, typically before 1961, the normal depths of measurement were 4, 8, 12, 24 and 48 inches.
Liquid-in-glass soil thermometers at a depth of 20 cm or less are unsheathed and have a bend in the stem between the bulb and the lowest graduation. At greater depths the thermometer is suspended in a steel tube and has its bulb encased in wax.
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.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2020-10-20T14:27:07
- Date (Creation)
- 2020-10-20T14:27:07
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/85b9dad7af814bfa9047a525927257f4
- Citation identifier
- Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 85b9dad7af814bfa9047a525927257f4
- Citation identifier
- doi / 10.5285/85b9dad7af814bfa9047a525927257f4
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Met Office
Author Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Custodian Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Distributor Met Office
Principal investigator Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
pointofContact Met Office
pointofContact Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Publisher
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- Update scope
- Dataset
- Keywords
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Met Office
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MIDAS
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UK
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meteorology
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soil temperatures
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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atmospheric conditions
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- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Access to these data is available to any registered CEDA user. Please Login or Register for a CEDA account to gain access.
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Language
- English
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 2019-12-31T23:59:59
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
- Distribution format
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Name Version Data are BADC-CSV formatted.
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Distributor
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/85b9dad7af814bfa9047a525927257f4 CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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Protocol Linkage Name http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ukmo-midas-open/data/uk-soil-temperature-obs/dataset-version-202007/ DOWNLOAD
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Protocol Linkage Name http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ukmo-midas-open/data/uk-soil-temperature-obs/dataset-version-202007/midas-open_uk-soil-temperature-obs_dv-202007_change_log.txt Change log for UK soil temperature dataset between version v2019018 and v202007 (this version)
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Protocol Linkage Name http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ukmo-midas-open/data/uk-soil-temperature-obs/dataset-version-202007/change_log_station_files Individual station change logs for the UK soil temperature dataset between version v201908 and v202007 (this version)
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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
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Protocol Linkage Name https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/ukmo-midas/ukmo_guide.html#6.2 Information on versioning in MIDAS data
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Protocol Linkage Name https://help.ceda.ac.uk/article/4982-midas-open-user-guide MIDAS Open User Guide
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Protocol Linkage Name https://zenodo.org/record/7357325 MIDAS User Guide version v20200921
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- Dataset
Conformance result
- Title
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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
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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.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 85b9dad7af814bfa9047a525927257f4 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Parent identifier
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Met Office MIDAS Open: UK Land Surface Stations Data (1853-current)
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- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-06-13T02:21:29
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
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