Ship reports
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| identifier | urn:wmo:md:uk-metoffice:weather.surface-based-observations.ship.ship-reports |
| type | dataset |
| created | 2025-06-27T15:00:00Z |
| updated | 2026-07-08T15:00:00Z |
| title | Ship reports |
| description | Ship reports data refers to meteorological and oceanographic observations collected from vessels, primarily through the Voluntary Observing Ships (VOS) program and other automated ship-based systems. Typical manual parameters include: Air temperature and pressure, Wind speed and direction, Sea surface temperature, Wave height and period, Visibility and cloud cover, Precipitation and weather phenomena. Automatic systems will report: pressure, air temperature and relative humidity. Data are typically formatted in BUFR. |
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Application-ready
title: Application ready url: http://reference.metoffice.gov.uk/DataCategories/data-readiness/Application-ready scheme: http://reference.metoffice.gov.uk/DataCategories/data-readiness concepts: id: Observations title: Observations description: Observations data are defined as measurements of the physical, chemical and/or biological environment, measured at a specific time in the past.⯠They may be direct or indirect measurements and may be feature or coverage data.⯠In order to be valid, observations data must carry geospatial and temporal metadata as well as variable values (or equivalent such as pixel values for a faster coverage). url: http://reference.metoffice.gov.uk/DataCategories/data-types/Observations scheme: http://reference.metoffice.gov.uk/DataCategories/data-types concepts: id: weather title: Weather url: http://codes.wmo.int/wis/topic-hierarchy/earth-system-discipline/weather scheme: http://codes.wmo.int/wis/topic-hierarchy/earth-system-discipline concepts: id: 22 title: BUFR/CREX Oceanographic elements url: http://codes.wmo.int/bufr4/b/22 scheme: http://codes.wmo.int/bufr4/b |
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name: Met Office organization: Met Office phones: value: +443301350000 emails: value: servicedesk@metoffice.gov.uk addresses: deliveryPoint: FitzRoy Road name: Met Office city: Exeter administrativeArea: Devon postalCode: EX1 3PB country: United Kingdom links: rel: canonical type: text/html href: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/contact roles: host producer |
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