Met Office UK Deterministic (UKV)2km on a 2-year rolling archive

Description

A high-resolution gridded weather forecast for the UK, with a resolution of 0.018 degrees, projected on to a 2km horizontal grid. The data is available as NetCDF files. It's offered on a free, unsupported basis, so we don’t recommend using it for any critical business purposes.

Based on the Met Office UKV model, which is a deterministic, numerical weather prediction model for the UK and Ireland. It is a UK configuration of the Unified Model, which is the Met Office’s flagship Numerical Weather Prediction model.

The archive contains data from the past two years. The data is typically available approximately 3 to 6 hours after the model run time.

The following timesteps are available:

• every hour from 0 to 54 hours (for most parameters)
• every 3 hours from 57 to 120 hours
  
  

For some parameters, data is available for multiple vertical height or pressure levels through the atmosphere.

Update Frequency

There are three lengths of model run, each with its own update frequency:

• Nowcast: forecasts the next 12 hours and runs at 0100, 0200, 0400, 0500, 0700, 0800, 1000, 1100, 1300, 1400, 1600, 1700, 1900, 2000, 2200 and 2300 UTC.
• Short: forecasts the next 54 hours and runs at 0000, 0600, 0900, 1200, 1800 and 2100 UTC.
• Medium: forecasts the next 120 hours and runs at 0300 and 1500 UTC.

License

British Crown copyright 2023-2025, the Met Office, is licensed under CC BY-SA

Documentation

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/services/data/external-data-channels

Managed By

Met Office

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Contact

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How to Cite

Met Office UK Deterministic (UKV)2km on a 2-year rolling archive was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/met-office-uk-deterministic.

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