Met Office Stratospheric Assimilated Data

This dataset collection contain data concerning stratospheric temperature, geopotential height and wind components produced by the Stratospheric Data Assimilation System at the UK Met Office.

The data assimilation system is a development of the scheme used at the Met Office for operational weather forecasting, which has been extended to cover the stratosphere. The primary product is a daily analysis (at 1200 UTC) which is produced using operational observations only. For short periods of particular interest the analyses are available at 6-hourly intervals. Assimilation experiments using UARS (Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite) data in addition to operational meteorological observations have been carried out for limited periods.

These data consist of 3-dimensional gridpoint analyses of temperature, geopotential height and wind components fields at 2.5 x 3.75 degree resolution from the ground to 0.3 hPa (for the period from 17th October 1991 (UARS day 36) to 2006-03-13) and on a smaller grid size 0.5625 degree x 0.375 degree on 27 (or 26 depending on variable) pressure levels, (note, this does not apply for the UARS versions of the data files), for the period 2006-03-03 to present day.

Date (Publication): 2006-12-10T02:44:48

Date (Creation): 2006-12-10T02:44:48

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/f0095ccfd57aa3c62b64d3e406ab1f73

Citation identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / f0095ccfd57aa3c62b64d3e406ab1f73

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Met Office		enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk	Author
Unavailable	Swinbank, Richard	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	O'Neill, Alan	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Lorenc, A.C.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Ballard, Susan P.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Bell, R.S.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Ingleby, N.B.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Andrews, P.L.F.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Barker, D.M.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Bray, J.R.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Clayton, A.M.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Dalby, T.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Li, D.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Payne, T.J.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Saunders, F.W.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	MacPherson, B.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Cullen, M.J.P.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Davies, T.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Mawson, M.H.	Unavailable	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
NWP
assimilation
stratosphere

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: 1991-09-27T23:00:00

End date: 2022-09-10T00:00:00

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/f0095ccfd57aa3c62b64d3e406ab1f73	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/assim/acquiring.html	BADC Doc: Acquiring the Met Office Stratospheric Assimilated data

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/assim/assimhelp.html	BADC Doc: Help File: Met Office Assimilated Data

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/qj.49712657002	Lorenc A.C. et al., 2000

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0493(1994)122<0686:ASTDAS>2.0.CO;2	Swinbank R. and O'Neil A., 1994

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/assim/documents.html	BADC Doc: Stratospheric Assimilated data Indexed Documentation

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://zenodo.org/record/7356604	Stratospheric analyses provided by the UK Meteorological Office

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/assim/references.html	BADC Doc: Met Office Assimilated List of References

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: f0095ccfd57aa3c62b64d3e406ab1f73 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Series

Hierarchy level name: series

Date stamp: 2026-02-25T03:26:14

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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