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MIDAS Open: UK mean wind data, v202007

The UK mean wind data contain the mean wind speed and direction, and the direction, speed and time of the maximum gust, all during 1 or more hours, ending at the stated time and date. The data were collected by observation stations operated by the Met Office across the UK and transmitted within the following message types: SYNOP, HCM, AWSHRLY, DLY3208, HWNDAUTO and HWND6910. The data spans from 1949 to 2019.

This version supersedes the previous version of this dataset and a change log is available in the archive, and in the linked documentation for this record, detailing the differences between this version and the previous version. The change logs detail new, replaced and removed data.

For further details on observing practice, including measurement accuracies for the message types, see relevant sections of the MIDAS User Guide linked from this record (e.g. section 3.3 details the wind network in the UK, section 5.5 covers wind measurements in general and section 4 details message type information).

This dataset is part of the Midas-open dataset collection made available by the Met Office under the UK Open Government Licence, containing only UK mainland land surface observations owned or operated by the Met Office. It is a subset of the fuller, restricted Met Office Integrated Data Archive System (MIDAS) Land and Marine Surface Stations dataset, also available through the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - see the related dataset section on this record.

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Metadata Language
English (en)
Dataset Reference Date ()
2020-10-20T15:43:29
Dataset Reference Date ()
2020-10-20T15:43:29
Identifier
http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/f7e09e89de234c15964a4cc7a75f3f74
Identifier
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / f7e09e89de234c15964a4cc7a75f3f74
Identifier
doi / 10.5285/f7e09e89de234c15964a4cc7a75f3f74
  Met Office - author
Met Office , FitzRoy Road , Exeter , EX1 3PB ,
0370 900 0100
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - custodian
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - distributor
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - point_of_contact
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
  Met Office - point_of_contact
Met Office , FitzRoy Road , Exeter , EX1 3PB ,
0370 900 0100
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - publisher
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Maintenance and update frequency
notPlanned
Update scope
dataset
Keywords
  • Met Office
  • MIDAS
  • UK
  • meteorology
  • wind speed
  • wind direction
  • gust
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
  • atmospheric conditions
Limitations on Public Access
otherRestrictions
Other constraints
Access to these data is available to any registered CEDA user. Please Login or Register for an account to gain access.
Use constraints
otherRestrictions
Other constraints
Use of these data is covered by the following licence: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ . When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
Spatial representation type
grid
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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Begin date
1949-01-01T00:00:00
End date
2019-12-31T23:59:59
 
Code
WGS 84

Distribution Information

Data format
  • Data are BADC-CSV formatted. ()

Resource Locator
CEDA Data Catalogue Page

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Change log for UK mean wind dataset between version v201908 and v202007 (this version)

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Individual station change logs for the UK mean wind dataset between version v201908 and v202007 (this version)

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MIDAS User Guide version v20200921

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Met Office Fact sheet 17 Weather observations over land

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Information on versioning in MIDAS data

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MIDAS Open User Guide

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CEDA Data Catalogue Page

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Change log for UK mean wind dataset between version v201908 and v202007 (this version)

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Individual station change logs for the UK mean wind dataset between version v201908 and v202007 (this version)

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MIDAS User Guide version v20200921

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Met Office Fact sheet 17 Weather observations over land

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Information on versioning in MIDAS data

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MIDAS Open User Guide

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Quality Scope
dataset

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Dataset Reference Date ()
2010-12-08
Statement
Data collated by the Met Office and archived in the Met Office's MIDAS database. Data are extracted from a sub-set of available tables and delivered to Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) approximately on a yearly basis.

Metadata

File identifier
f7e09e89de234c15964a4cc7a75f3f74 XML
Metadata Language
English (en)
Character set
8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
Parent identifier
Met Office MIDAS Open: UK Land Surface Stations Data (1853-current) dbd451271eb04662beade68da43546e1
Resource type
dataset
Metadata Date
2022-06-03T00:10:57
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
 
 

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