EUMETNET Sandbox: Met Office WOW data v1

The Met Office WOW V1 dataset contains observations from all Public Weather Stations (PWS) contributing to WOW (Weather Observations Website) within Europe. The dataset is for a single year (2020), made available for use within the EUMETNET Sandbox project. EUMETNET (a grouping of 31 European National Meteorological Services) instigated the EUMETNET Sandbox project to bring novel observations and observations from technology trials and field campaigns to the research community to enable R&D activities.

The data are not quality controlled and are presented in the format provided by the Met Office. The data are provided in a single file per month.

The data were extracted from the WOW database using a latitude/longitude bounding box (North West corner 90N 70W to South East corner 10N 40E) so there are a small number of stations outside of Europe present.

The meteorological values are unchanged from those extracted from the WoW archive. For example, there is no Quality Control of the data, no calibration of the instruments and no unit conversions have been applied.

The data were extracted from the WoW archive by the Met Office operators of the WoW system. The data have not been manipulated to meet any international data format standards. The file names have been modified, from those provided by the Met Office, to contain location, data and status information.

The records for each station are comma separated. Not all sites report all variables, nor at all times. In most cases only the principle meteorological variables, e.g., Air temperature, Wet bulb, etc. are present. For a full list of available parameters within the files see the 'variables' information on this record.

Date (Publication): 2021-10-18T14:35:32

Date (Creation): 2021-10-18T14:35:32

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/ea70491805b14edf957d69cbc27a8d81

Citation identifier: NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / ea70491805b14edf957d69cbc27a8d81

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Met Office		enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk	Author
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Custodian
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor
Unavailable	Sugier, Jacqueline	Unavailable	Principal investigator
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	pointofContact
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

EUMETNET
WOW
meteorology
Europe
land
daily
hourly

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-wow_runcgl_licence.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under specific 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: 2020-01-01T00:00:00

End date: 2020-12-31T23:59:59

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Name	Version
Data are ASCII formatted.

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/ea70491805b14edf957d69cbc27a8d81	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/eumetnet-sandbox/data/metoffice-wow/v1	DOWNLOAD

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://www.wow.metoffice.gov.uk/	Met Office WOW (Weather Observations Website)

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://dap.ceda.ac.uk/badc/eumetnet-sandbox/docs/metoffice-wow/EUMETNET-Sandbox_MetOffice-WOW_data_description.pdf	EUMETNET Sandbox Met Office WOW data file format description (only available to project participants)

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 extracted from the Met Office WOW (Weather Observers Website) database and prepared by the data provider before upload for archiving at the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA). Data were originally provided to WOW by Public Weather Stations (PWS) from a range of sites, mainly in Europe but some further afield. Data were provided with MD5s to allow checking of data during upload and ingest to ensure no corruptions.

Metadata

File identifier: ea70491805b14edf957d69cbc27a8d81 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Parent identifier: EUMETNET Sandbox: surface observations from Met Office WOW and Netatmo networks.
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Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2025-11-12T03:21:16

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Metadata author

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

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