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MIDAS Open: UK daily rainfall data, v202407
The UK daily rainfall data contain rainfall accumulation and precipitation amounts over a 24 hour period. The data were collected by observation stations operated by the Met Office across the UK and transmitted within the following message types: NCM, AWSDLY, DLY3208 and SSER. The data spans from 1853 to 2023. Over time a range of rain gauges have been used - see section 5.6 and the relevant message type information in the linked MIDAS User Guide for further details.
This version supersedes the previous version (202308) 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. These include the addition of data for calendar year 2023.
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 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. A large proportion of the UK raingauge observing network (associated with WAHRAIN, WADRAIN and WAMRAIN for hourly, daily and monthly rainfall measurements respectively) is operated by other agencies beyond the Met Office, and are consequently currently excluded from the Midas-open dataset. Currently this represents approximately 13% of available daily rainfall observations within the full MIDAS collection.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2024-08-06T13:53:02
- Date (Creation)
- 2024-08-06T13:53:02
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/8606115371e44b079e25d479cfec465c
- Citation identifier
- NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / 8606115371e44b079e25d479cfec465c
- Citation identifier
- doi / 10.5285/8606115371e44b079e25d479cfec465c
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Met Office
Author NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
Custodian NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
Distributor Met Office
Principal investigator NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
pointofContact Met Office
pointofContact NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
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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rainfall
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diurnal
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daily
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monthly
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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
- 1853-01-02T00:00:00
- End date
- 2023-12-31T23:59:59
- 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 NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
Distributor
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/8606115371e44b079e25d479cfec465c CEDA Data Catalogue Page
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ukmo-midas-open/data/uk-daily-rain-obs/dataset-version-202407/ DOWNLOAD
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Protocol Linkage Name https://dap.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ukmo-midas-open/data/uk-daily-rain-obs/dataset-version-202407/midas-open_uk-daily-rain-obs_dv-202407_change_log.txt?download=1 Individual station change logs for the UK daily rainfall dataset for v202407 (this version)
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Protocol Linkage Name https://zenodo.org/record/7357325 MIDAS User Guide version v20200921
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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://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 http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ukmo-midas-open/data/uk-daily-rain-obs/dataset-version-202407/midas-open_uk-daily-rain-obs_dv-202407_change_log.txt Change log for UK daily rainfall dataset for v202407 (this version)
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Protocol Linkage Name https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12819432 Met Office. (2024). MIDAS Open V202407 release notes and station change logs. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12819432
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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
- 8606115371e44b079e25d479cfec465c 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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- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-06-15T02:25:56
- 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 NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
Point of contact
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