Met Office - European Synoptic stations data (1990 - 1996)

General Info

Title:	Met Office - European Synoptic stations data (1990 - 1996)
Type:	Data Entity
Sub-Type:	Measurement
Abbreviation:	Met Office - European synoptic
Publication State:	published
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URI:	http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/badc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__dataent_SYNOPTIC

Summary
A brief description of the data.

Hourly Surface data from 141 European stations for the period 1990-1996. Parameters include temperature, wind, rainfall, cloud cover etc. Note - this has been superseded by the MIDAS Land Surface Station Dataset (see http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/badc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__dataent_ukmo-midas )

Content
The actual data being described by this document. NB, in the case of data granules, this content may just be a reference to an ingested CSML or CDML file.

PLEASE NOTE: This dataset has been superseded by the Met Office MIDAS dataset at the BADC.

Introduction

Data from 141 european synoptic stations are available over the period 1990 to 1996.

The parameters include the following; present and past weather, cloud amount, type and base height, wind direction and speed, visibility, temperature measurements, water vapour pressure, relative humidity, mean sea level pressure, rainfall and gust speed and direction.

Access Restrictions

The Met Office wish to monitor the use of this data and require an acknowledgement of the data source if they are used in any publication. The online application for access to the Met Office European synoptic data includes acceptance of the Met Office Conditions of Use. Please note that the Met Office data sets are available for bona fide academic research only (sorry no undergraduates), on a per person per project basis (i.e. all members on a same project who will be using the data must individually apply for access to the data). If you wish to access the Met Office data for commercial or personal purposes, please contact the Met Office directly.

Your application for accessing the Met Office European Synoptic data will be processed within a day of receipt and you will receive a confirmation email. Provided your application is complete and fully meets the Met Office conditions, a web account will be activated to allow you access to the Met Office European Synoptic data directories via your login account from the BADC WWW Browse Archive pages.

Please read the 00README file available under /badc/ukmo-synop/ directory to to guide you through the tree structure and the data directory.

Data availability and File format

The data held at the BADC, are stored in a simple ASCII format (plain text and "human" readable).

The European data file format is documented in euro_synop_file_format.

Links to further information and references

The Meteorological Office used to publish The Monthly Weather Report. Some information has been extracted from the Monthly Weather Report - Vol. 108, 1991, ref. UDC 551 506 1(41-1) - to produce these web pages.

Citation

Date of citation

Who to contact

If you have queries about these pages or about obtaining the Met Office synoptic station data from the BADC then you should contact BADC Support. Your query should be answered within one working day. When follow-up work is required, the BADC support will carry out the work as quickly and efficiently as possible, and in any case, the user will be kept informed of progress.

Lineage
Summary of the origins of the dataset, e.g.: "Dataset produced from NASA MODIS instrument on Terra and collected at the University of York's groundstation 1999-2003 and a copy provided to NEODC in June 2007".

Data collated by the Met Office from messages transmitted by collecting stations and then delivered to the BADC for archiving.

Quality Statement
Description of the relative quality of the dataset.

Data are from operational network of meteorological stations around Europe conforming to WMO standards. However, data have not been further quality checked.

Author
The principal author of the actual underlying data. Only one author can be specified per atom; if there are multiple authors, these should be specified as 'contributors'. NB, an atom MUST have an author specified.

Name	email
www.metoffice.gov.uk (Met Office)	enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk

Online References
Online references with a specific relationship to the data being described here. NB, if links are supplied they must be valid and include the transport protocol - e.g. 'http://blah.co.uk'. Also, note, three online references can be added at once; after these are added a further three may be specified - and so on.

Relation	Title
Download	Met Office European Synoptic Data Directory
Logo	Met Office Logo
Documentation	Met Office MIDAS data at the BADC

Parent Data Entity
Define the parent of this record. There should probably only be one parent, but this is not enforced.

No data specified at present

Sub Data Entities
Lists all entities which have the current entity as their parent.

None

Associated Deployments

Parameters - summary

BASEOFLOWESTCLOUD	CLOUDHEIGHT	CLOUDS	ATMOSPHERE
EARTH SCIENCE	NULL	12HOURSRAINFALLAMOUNT	RAIN
PRECIPITATION	WETBULBTEMPERATURE	AIRTEMPERATURE	ATMOSPHERICTEMPERATURE
HORIZONTALVISIBILITY	VISIBILITY	AIRQUALITY	10-MINUTEMEANWINDSPEED
SURFACEWINDS	ATMOSPHERICWINDS	HIGHCLOUDTYPE	CLOUDTYPES
SNOWDEPTH	SNOW	GUSTSPEED	LOWCLOUDTYPE
RELATIVEHUMIDITY	HUMIDITY	ATMOSPHERICWATERVAPOR	MAXDRYBULBTEMPERATURE
MINIMUMTEMPERATURE	MAXIMUM	VAPOURPRESSURE	WATERVAPOR
10-MINUTEMEANWINDDIRECTION	MEDIUMCLOUDTYPE	MINDRYBULBTEMPERATURE	DRYBULBTEMPERATURE
PRESSURECHARACTERISTICSOVERLAST3HOURS	PRESSURETENDENCY	ATMOSPHERICPRESSURE	MEANSEALEVELPRESSURE
SEALEVELPRESSURE	PRESSURECHANGEOVERLAST3HOURS	LOWCLOUDAMOUNT	FREQUENCY
CLOUDAMOUNT	TOTALCLOUDCOVER	DEWPOINTTEMPERATURE	STATIONLEVELPRESSURE
ATMOSPHERICPRESSUREMEASUREMENTS

Parameters - details
Parameters to describe the data - with vocab URL and term IDs for further classification. Note, three parameters can be added at once; after these are added a further three may be specified - and so on.

Label	Vocab Term URL	Vocab Term ID
BASEOFLOWESTCLOUD	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
CLOUDHEIGHT	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
CLOUDS	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141	NULL
ATMOSPHERE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P131	NULL
EARTH SCIENCE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P111	GCAT0001
NULL	general_units	0
12HOURSRAINFALLAMOUNT	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
RAIN	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
PRECIPITATION	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141	NULL
WETBULBTEMPERATURE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
AIRTEMPERATURE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
ATMOSPHERICTEMPERATURE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141	NULL
HORIZONTALVISIBILITY	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
VISIBILITY	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
AIRQUALITY	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141	NULL
10-MINUTEMEANWINDSPEED	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
SURFACEWINDS	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
ATMOSPHERICWINDS	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141	NULL
HIGHCLOUDTYPE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
CLOUDTYPES	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
SNOWDEPTH	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
SNOW	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
GUSTSPEED	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
LOWCLOUDTYPE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
RELATIVEHUMIDITY	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
HUMIDITY	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
ATMOSPHERICWATERVAPOR	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141	NULL
MAXDRYBULBTEMPERATURE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
MINIMUMTEMPERATURE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
MAXIMUM	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
VAPOURPRESSURE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
WATERVAPOR	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
10-MINUTEMEANWINDDIRECTION	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
MEDIUMCLOUDTYPE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
MINDRYBULBTEMPERATURE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
DRYBULBTEMPERATURE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
PRESSURECHARACTERISTICSOVERLAST3HOURS	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
PRESSURETENDENCY	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
ATMOSPHERICPRESSURE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141	NULL
MEANSEALEVELPRESSURE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
SEALEVELPRESSURE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
PRESSURECHANGEOVERLAST3HOURS	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
LOWCLOUDAMOUNT	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
FREQUENCY	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
CLOUDAMOUNT	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
TOTALCLOUDCOVER	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
DEWPOINTTEMPERATURE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
STATIONLEVELPRESSURE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
ATMOSPHERICPRESSUREMEASUREMENTS	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL

Data Coverage
Summary of the temporal and spatial data coverage for the data.

Spatial coverage
Max Y: 76.77
Min X: -25	Max X 49.63
Min Y 32.0

Temporal coverage
Start Date:	1990-01-01
End Date:	1996-12-31

Spatial resolution

No spatial resoultion information available.

Vertical extent

No vertical extent information available.

Responsible Parties
Parties responsible for the metadata - e.g. data curator. Responsible parties can have a role specified to make their function clearer. Multiple responsible parties can be specified.

Role	Name	URI
Data Curator	badc.nerc.ac.uk	http://badc.nerc.ac.uk

Other Info
Other miscellaneous information. Note, update frequency relates to the update frequency of the underlying data, not the metadata.

Dataset language

English

Update frequency

notPlanned

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