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Met Office COVID-19 non-commercial response dataset

This data is for COVID-19 researchers to explore relationships between COVID-19 and environmental factors. It is offered under a non-commercial license.

Stay up to date

Stay up to date with new datasets, corrections, redactions and useful or important information by subscribing to our Google Groups mailing list

License

Users are required to acknowledge the Met Office as the source of these data by including the following attribution statement in any resulting products, publications or applications: “Contains Met Office data licensed under the Non-Commercial government license version v2.0”

This data is made available under Non-Commercial Government License.

About the data

High resolution UK numerical weather model output from the UK Met Office. Data is from the very early time steps of the model following data assimilation, as such this data approximates a UK observation dataset.

The following variables are available:

  • t1o5m = Air temperature at 1.5m in K
  • sh = Specific humidity at 1.5m in kg/kg (kg of water vapor in kg of air)
  • sw = Short wave radiation in W m-2 (surrogate for sunshine)
  • snow = Stratiform snowfall flux in kg m-2 s-1 (multiply by 3600 to get mm / hr)
  • rain = Stratiform rainfall flux in kg m-2 s-1 (multiply by 3600 to get mm / hr)
  • pmsl = Air pressure at mean sea level in Pa
  • windspeed = Wind speed in m s-1
  • windgust = Wind gust in m s-1
  • cldbase = Cloud base altitude in ft
  • cldfrac = Cloud area fraction assuming maximum random overlap (unitless)

This data is made available as NetCDF files.

Global and UK model data updated is available from 01/04/2015 to 2019/12/13.

Missing data

Data for September 19th 2019 is unavailable.

Quick links

  • We keep expanding our data offering. Please subscribe to our Google Groups mailing list to receive updates when that data is available.

  • Please contact us on [email protected] if you have any questions or requests for additional data.

Quick start

Accessing the data

The data is hosted on Microsoft Azure through their AI for Earth initiative. You can access the data in numerous ways, such as:

Index page

There data in this container is listed on the index page. You can see what is avaliable and download files one at at time from this page. It is not recomended for accessing any significant volume of data.

Azure Blob libraries

There is a range of libraries in a range of languages for working with Azure Blobs. See the Azure Blob documentation for more info.

Automated downloading with AZCopy

There are lots of files, so we suggest installing azcopy command line tool, which you can download here. This lets you download whole directories or multiple files using wildcards to your computer of choice.

How the data is organised

  • metoffice_ukv_daily/
    Contains the Met Office daily UKV gridded data files.
    There is a 'directory' for each variable.
    Each file in these directories has a descriptive name* as ukv_daily_{variable}_{statistic}_{YYYYMMDD}.nc.

  • metoffice_ukv_hourly/
    Contains the Met Office hourly UKV gridded data files.
    There is a 'directory' for each variable.
    Each file in these directories has a descriptive name* as ukv_hourly_{variable}_{YYYYMMDD}.nc.

Getting help and contact

For help or additional data requests please contact us on [email protected].