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The full range of Met Office archived data and services are available
to the research and academic community. These data may be provided
at preferential rates or even free of charge.
The Met Office policy on supplying data at preferential rates
to academia can be found in the Royal Meteorological Society journal, Weather Vol
50 No 2 pp59-61 (February 1995)
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education or charity funded projects |
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If your project is not explicitly funded, but funding comes from
overall departmental funds at a higher education establishment or
from a registered charity, and the results of the work will be placed
in the public domain, then commercial data fees will be waived.
Derived products, such as frequency analyses and MORECS (soil moisture)
data, will be charged at 10% of the commercial rate. A minimum charge
of £150 applies. Please complete and return the academic
research data application form for a quotation.
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University students are also able to use the free data service
available to school students, should the data available meet their
requirements. To find out more and request this data, please see
the Data catalogue.
Please note, only the data shown in the catalogue can be provided
free of charge. If this data is not suitable please complete the
research data application form detailed in the section above.
The Met Office National Meteorological
Archive contains an extensive range of weather records and
is open to the public. It may be possible for you to visit and
photocopy records or copy data onto a laptop.
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The following links provide a large amount
of free data suitable for academic use.
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contains monthly data for 10 stations
in some cases back to 1853. |
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contains monthly temperature data of
the Central England area back to 1659. |
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contains monthly rainfall data for the
England and Wales region back to 1766. |
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contains links to historical data series
of temperature, rainfall and sunshine for the three regions
England and Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. |
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for tabulated and mapped long term climate
averages. |
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If your project is purely academic research where the results
are published in the open literature, you are entitled to use
the meteorological data stored and managed by the British
Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC).
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Projects receiving funding from industry, commerce, government or
EU must anticipate paying for services at standard rates. We strongly
recommend that quotes are sought at the time funding is being bid
for. You will appreciate that allowance cannot be made for projects
where this has been overlooked. Where appropriate, and entirely
at our discretion upon receipt of a business case, the Met Office
may waive charges in return for partnership rights within the project.
Please complete and return the academic
research data application form for a quotation.
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| Unfunded
projects by individuals |
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At the discretion of the Met Office's Chief Scientist, some funds
are available to support private individuals in conducting research.
Upon receipt of proposals, an adjudication will be made as whether
and what quantity of data should be released. Please complete and
return the academic research data application
form for a quotation.
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| Met
Office terms and conditions |
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All services are supplied under the Met
Office terms and conditions. For large volumes of data you will
be asked to sign a contract.
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Payment can be made either by invoice or credit card. We are pleased
to invoice customers subject to meeting our credit control criteria.
Our payment terms are 30 days from date of invoicing. We accept
payment by all main credit cards. Urgency fees are levied for customers
requiring rapid turnaround. We endeavour to mutually agree delivery
times with our customers.
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