Global GTS Surface METAR Data in ASCII format

The Surface METAR Data set is one of several surface data sets collected by the National Center for Atmospheric Research/Earth Observing Laboratory (NCAR/EOL). Included in the data set are the global hourly METAR observations. These data are contained in monthly files which are in tarred bzip2 format (.tar.bz2). The data were acquired via the UNIDATA Local Data Manager (LDM).

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  2000-03-01T00:00:00Z
    End:  2025-08-31T23:59:59Z

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 2025-08-31T23:59:59Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 90.00000
Bounding Box South Lat -90.00000
Bounding Box West Long -180.00000
Bounding Box East Long 180.00000
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links

Documentation #1 : LDM_SFC_METAR.html

100.011 : is a companion to dataset 100.013

100.012 : is a companion to dataset 100.013
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format Tar/bzip2 (.tar.bz2) (application/x-bzip2)
TAR: Unix Tape ARchive (TAR) Format File (application/x-tar)
bzip2 (.bz2) (application/x-bzip2)
Standardized Resource Format Archive
Asset Size 36406 MB
Legal Constraints

none
Access Constraints none
Software Implementation Language N/A

Resource Support Name EOL Data Support
Resource Support Email datahelp@eol.ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization N/A
Distributor N/A
Metadata Contact Name EOL Data Support
Metadata Contact Email datahelp@eol.ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization N/A

Author N/A
Publisher N/A
Publication Date 2011-09-01T02:07:14
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.26023/YHA4-K6FJ-W005
Alternate Identifier 100.013
Resource Version 1.0
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-10-07T21:46:50Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::100.013
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation (2011). Global GTS Surface METAR Data in ASCII format. 1.0. https://doi.org/10.26023/YHA4-K6FJ-W005. Accessed 31 October 2025.

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