85b9dad7af814bfa9047a525927257f4 English 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 dbd451271eb04662beade68da43546e1 dataset Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) 01235446432 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxon OX11 0QX United Kingdom support@ceda.ac.uk pointOfContact 2026-05-10T02:21:08 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 MIDAS Open: UK soil temperature data, v202007 2020-10-20T14:27:07 publication 2020-10-20T14:27:07 creation https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/85b9dad7af814bfa9047a525927257f4 85b9dad7af814bfa9047a525927257f4 Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) 10.5285/85b9dad7af814bfa9047a525927257f4 doi 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. Met Office author 0370 900 0100 Met Office FitzRoy Road Exeter EX1 3PB enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk author Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) custodian 01235446432 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxon OX11 0QX United Kingdom support@ceda.ac.uk custodian Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) distributor 01235446432 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxon OX11 0QX United Kingdom support@ceda.ac.uk distributor Met Office principal_investigator 0370 900 0100 Met Office FitzRoy Road Exeter EX1 3PB enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk principalInvestigator Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) point_of_contact 01235446432 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxon OX11 0QX United Kingdom support@ceda.ac.uk pointofContact Met Office point_of_contact 0370 900 0100 Met Office FitzRoy Road Exeter EX1 3PB enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk pointofContact Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) publisher 01235446432 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxon OX11 0QX United Kingdom support@ceda.ac.uk publisher notPlanned dataset Met Office MIDAS UK meteorology soil temperatures atmospheric conditions theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication otherRestrictions Access to these data is available to any registered CEDA user. Please Login or Register for a CEDA account to gain access. otherRestrictions Under the following licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/, appropriate use of these data may fall under any 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 -5.54236 1.74002 50.1172 60.7592 1900-01-01T00:00:00 2019-12-31T23:59:59 Data are BADC-CSV formatted. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) Data Center Contact 01235446432 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxon OX11 0QX United Kingdom support@ceda.ac.uk distributor https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/85b9dad7af814bfa9047a525927257f4 CEDA Data Catalogue Page Detail and access information for the resource information http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ukmo-midas-open/data/uk-soil-temperature-obs/dataset-version-202007/ DOWNLOAD Download Data download 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) No further details. information 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) No further details. information https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/content/assets/metofficegovuk/pdf/research/library-and-archive/library/publications/factsheets/factsheet_17-observations_over_land_2023.pdf Weather observations over land (Factsheet 17) 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://help.ceda.ac.uk/article/4982-midas-open-user-guide MIDAS Open User Guide No further details. information https://zenodo.org/record/7357325 MIDAS User Guide version v20200921 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 Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) approximately on a yearly basis.