Met Office Northern Hemisphere Gridded 1000-500hPa Geopotential Height Thickness Daily and Monthly Series

This dataset holds Northern Hemisphere (north of 15 deg. N) daily and monthly series of 1000-500hPa Geopotential Height Thickness Daily and Monthly Series. The data is gridded on a 5x10 degree grid. The data is available for the period 1945 to 2005.

The geopotential thickness between pressure levels — difference of the 1000 hPa and 500 hPa geopotential heights for example — is proportional to mean virtual temperature in that layer.

The data is supplied by the Met Office, Hadley Centre.

Date (Publication): 2007-02-03T04:53:11

Date (Creation): 2007-02-03T04:53:11

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/a21866840b0413da568d0d0225698f77

Citation identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / a21866840b0413da568d0d0225698f77

Point of contact

Organisation name	Electronic mail address	Role
Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research (MOHC)	unknown	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: Not planned

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

Met Office
Hadley
geopotential height
thickness

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Restricted data: please submit an application using the REQUEST ACCESS link for access.

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.

Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 1944-12-31T23:00:00

End date: 2005-12-31T00:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Name	Version
ASCII

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/a21866840b0413da568d0d0225698f77	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ukmo-height/data/NH_1000-500hPa_thickness	DOWNLOAD

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://glossary.ametsoc.org/wiki/Geopotential_thickness	AMS Definition of Geopotential Thickness

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/height/heighthelp.html	NH Geopotential Height data file format explained

Hierarchy level: Dataset

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: Data were prepared by the Met Office's Hadley Centre for the period 1945 to 2005, before a copy was obtained for archiving at the BADC.

Metadata

File identifier: a21866840b0413da568d0d0225698f77 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Parent identifier: Met Office Northern Hemisphere Gridded Geopotential Height (1945-2005) Data
c1bc99904129e5a4403a66704f3c747d

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2026-01-15T03:02:13

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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