Date (Publication)

2008-08-13T11:20:30

Date (Creation)

2008-08-13T11:20:30

Citation identifier

https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/fd1f0377eef5b47ca4e3d889d5d84987

Citation identifier

NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / fd1f0377eef5b47ca4e3d889d5d84987

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual 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
Met Office		enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk	Principal investigator
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

Continual

Update scope

Dataset

Keywords

• Met Office

• MetDB

• Ozone

• Satellite

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• atmospheric conditions

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

These data have multiple licences for different applications. Always make sure to read the appropriate licence for full data usage limitations details. Other usage may not be permitted. 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.

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

Data availability and file format Message Tables The Met Office MetDB holds data from a variety of different message types covering observations from satellites, profiling instruments (e.g. radiosondes and wind profilers) and surface based observations (e.g land meteorological recording stations). The BADC has obtained access to an number of the message types that should be of greatest use to the atmospheric research community and the data are stored in a the BADC-CSV format, which is comma separated, plain text, "human" readable and self describing. The following message types are available through the BADC. Follow the links to see the appropriate table detailing the elements within each message type: Message Name Description & Link AMDARs Aircraft Meteorological Data Relay LNDSYN Land based SYNOP messages RASS Radio Acoustic Sounding System messages SHPSYN Ship based SYNOP messages (including buoy and fixed platform) WINPRO Wind profiler observations File Format The data are held in the BADC-CSV file format, each of which will contain one or more data records and are comma separated variables. "Metadata" are provided giving a full description of the content of the data. More information about the file format can be found on the BADC-CSV format page, which also contains two example files taken from the MetDB dataset. As the data are held as comma separated variable the file should load automatically into programmes such as Microsoft Excel. Alternatively see the following webguide on how to read a text file into Excel: How to convert a text file to Excel.

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/fd1f0377eef5b47ca4e3d889d5d84987	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ukmo-metdb/data/ozonesat/	DOWNLOAD

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

Data are extracted from the Met Office's "metDB" system and supplied to BADC. These are then processed to generate BADC-CSV files, where possible. METARS and CLIMAT message types are stored as original message types only within http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ukmo-metdb/raw

Metadata

File identifier

fd1f0377eef5b47ca4e3d889d5d84987 XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Parent identifier

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

8ee156b6ed41b153e85dbf02a4134513

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2026-03-11T03:01:43

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