NWP-Global: Operational Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) output from the UK Met Office Global Atmospheric Unified Model (UM)

A global configuration of the Met Office Unified Model provides the most accurate short range deterministic forecast by any national meteorological service covering a six day period. With a resolution of approximately 0.234 x 0.153 degrees, it is able to produce selected hourly data covering the first 48 hours at surface level and at standard pressure levels twice a day. The model’s initial state is kept close to the real atmosphere using hybrid 4D-Var data assimilation.

This dataset collection contains model data from the Met Office Unified Model (UM) operational Global Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) model. The archive currently holds data from April 2016 onwards but data will be back populated for earlier years.

Date (Publication): 2016-05-24T10:45:01

Date (Creation): 2016-05-24T10:45:01

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/e4ac04e7fa2541278ad4ad06fb4fd5f3

Citation identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / e4ac04e7fa2541278ad4ad06fb4fd5f3

Point of contact

Organisation name	Electronic mail address	Role
Met Office	enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk	Author
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)	support@ceda.ac.uk	Custodian
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)	support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)	support@ceda.ac.uk	pointofContact
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)	support@ceda.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Update scope: Series

Keywords

NWP
Met Office
UM
unified model
Global atmospheric model
Global

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: All data within this dataset collection are available to any registered CEDA user.

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Under the following licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/, appropriate use of these data may fall under personal, academic and 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: 2016-03-18T00:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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Name	Version
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Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/e4ac04e7fa2541278ad4ad06fb4fd5f3	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/d/f/Global_model_data_sheet_lores1.pdf	Global Atmospheric Model documentation

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: e4ac04e7fa2541278ad4ad06fb4fd5f3 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Series

Hierarchy level name: series

Date stamp: 2025-08-19T02:30:00

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Point of contact

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