METARs of the Netherlands - Archive 1974-2017
Archive of dutch METARs. A METAR is a weather observation report for aviation, which is routinely prepared every half hour on HH+25 and HH+55 hours for Dutch airports. The measurement data used as information for the METAR come from measuring instruments set up at the various observation areas at the airports. At Schiphol Airport, the METAR is the result of continuous visual monitoring of the weather by an aviation observer and automatic measurements of objective quantities such as wind direction, wind speed, temperature, dew point and air pressure. The on-site observer at Schiphol Airport contributes to the METAR by adding visual observations which include visibility, cloud type, cloud height, cloud cover, and various weather phenomena.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2025-02-20
- Edition
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1
- Citation identifier
- urn:xkdc:ds:nl.knmi::metar-archive-1974-2017/1/
- Status
- Completed
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (KNMI)
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
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DG Discovery Properties Vocabulary 1.0
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Observations
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Aviation
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Wind
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Temperature
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Air pressure
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Clouds
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- Keywords
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Core dataset
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External dataset
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- Use limitation
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geen gebruikersbeperkingen
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 1974-01-01
- End date
- 2017-02-01
- Supplemental Information
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Recent METARs can be found at https://dataplatform.knmi.nl/dataset/metar-1-0
- Reference system identifier
- http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4326
- Distribution format
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Name Version ASCII
ICAO - METAR
Distributor
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (KNMI)
Point of contact
- Ordering instructions
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The dataset is stored in the SURF data archive at the path `obsis/metars`.
This dataset cannot be retrieved via the KNMI Data Platform. If you do not have access to the storage location mentioned above, please contact opendata@knmi.nl.
- Transfer size
- 842.0
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name landingpage
https://dataplatform.knmi.nl/catalog/datasets/index.html?x-dataset=metar-archive-1974-2017&x-dataset-version=1 KNMI Data Platform
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Quantitative result
- Value
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At the regional airports of Rotterdam, Groningen, Beek and Lelystad, an automatic METAR report (AUTO METAR) is produced. At those airports, no local airport observers are available. Please note: the archive is not complete. The METARs from 1994 till 2002 are missing.
- Statement
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Aviation Data acquisition and Communication Module
Metadata
- File identifier
- 5ff2eef4-ef9d-11ef-b7a6-8ea7dc4bfc2a XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-07-01T10:19:27.801Z
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115
- Metadata standard version
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ISO 19115:2003 NL Kernset 1.3 KNMI 2.1.0
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (KNMI)
Point of contact
- Other language
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Language Character encoding Dutch; Flemish English UTF8
Overviews
Spatial extent
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