Met Office MetDB system: Surface, upper air and satellite data

Observational data extracted from the Met Office's MetDB system. Data include surface and upper air observations and some satellite data. These data are from a number of different message types covering data from land and ship surface data measurements through to upper air observations from wind profilers, radiosonde ascents and aircraft measurements and also satellite measurements.

Data arrive at the Met Office as per standard messages transmitted from source (e.g. SYNOP, METARS, TEMP message types) and are then decoded within the MetDB system. CEDA receives a text output from the MetDB system of these deciphered messages which are then processed into the BADC-CSV format where possible. Messages are split up by observation date at this stage. METARS and CLIMAT data are not decoded by the Met Office and are stored as per the original message. Details about the contents of each message type are given in the links in the 'online resources' section of this record. "Raw" data for all message types are available through the /raw folder within the archive. Each raw file contains messages received within a given period of time at the Met Office and are not sorted by observation date.

Date (Publication): 2008-12-10T03:20:04

Date (Creation): 2008-12-10T03:20:04

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/8ee156b6ed41b153e85dbf02a4134513

Citation identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 8ee156b6ed41b153e85dbf02a4134513

Point of contact

Organisation name	Electronic mail address	Role
Met Office	enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk	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

Met Office
MetDB
meteorology
SYNOP
AMDARS
wind
temperature
humidity
WMO

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Access to data within this collection is restricted. Please see the individual datasets within this collection for further access details.

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: 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.

Other constraints: 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.

Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 2009-04-30T23:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Name	Version
Contact data centre for format details.

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/8ee156b6ed41b153e85dbf02a4134513	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/ukmo-metdb/winpro.html	BADC Doc: MetDB WINPRO data

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/ukmo-metdb/rass.html	BADC Doc: MetDB RASS data

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/ukmo-metdb/shpsyn.html	BADC Doc: MetDB Ship SYNOP data

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/ukmo-metdb/amdars.html	BADC Doc: MetDB AMDARS data

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/ukmo-metdb/lndsyn.html	BADC Doc: MetDB Land SYNOP data

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/	Met Office website

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.metoffice.com/climate/uk/index.html	Met Office UK climate summaries website

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.metoffice.com/climate/uk/averages/index.html	Met Office UK climate website

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate-change/resources/hadleycentre	Met Office Hadley Centre website

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/c1e2240c353f8edeb98087e90e6d832e	Met Office high resolution radiosonde data from the UK, Gibralta, St Helena and the Falkland Islands

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.ceda.ac.uk/help/users-guide/file-formats/badc-csv/	BADC-CSV Format for Data Exchange users guide website

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://zenodo.org/record/7357325	MIDAS User Guide version v20200921

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/radiosglobe	Met Office Global Radiosonde Data

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/surface/code.html	BADC Doc: WMO Meteorological codes

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/ukmo-midas	Met Office Integrated Data Archive System (MIDAS) Land and Marine Surface Stations Data (1853-current)

Hierarchy level: Series

Conformance result

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: 8ee156b6ed41b153e85dbf02a4134513 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Series

Hierarchy level name: series

Date stamp: 2026-03-01T03:26:58

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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