UKMO LAND SURFACE STATIONS DATA (1900-present)
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The Met. Office data archive held at the BADC until June 1998, used to be split in 3 parts: Climate
dataset, Synoptic dataset and Rain dataset.  These data were retrieved from the Old UKMO database system. 
Then as the BADC was extracting data updates from the new UKMO database system, we had to temporarily 
split the archive into two separate parts (data retrieved from the old database system and data retrieved 
from the new database system) in which data file formats and units are slightly different. 

The aim is to progressively retrieve Met. Office hourly and daily measurements back to 1900 to produce 
a new consistent unique dataset of land surface observations. 

At the present, we have one dataset called UKMO Land Surface Stations Data from which daily measurements 
back to 1900 are available and hourly measurements back to 1997 (for the moment). Parameters that 
used to be found in the old Climate dataset can now be found in the new surface dataset but the file 
format is different and the units differ too. The time period however is much greater!

The old climate dataset (climate data 1959-1998) is not available online on tornado, the BADC file server,
anymore. But we can give the data to BADC users upon request. 

The old UK synoptic dataset (Synoptic data 1990-1998) is still available online on tornado since we
haven't yet retrieved the hourly data back to 1990 and before from the new UKMO database. 


Go to http://www.badc.rl.ac.uk/data/surface/.html for detailed information about the UKMO Land
Surface Stations data.


BADC Support 22/07/99.