North sea shipping forecast
The North Sea shipping forecast covers the North Sea, divided into 5 districts: Dogger, German Bight, Humber, Thames and Dover. The North Sea shipping forecast is issued twice a day at 10:00 and 22:00 LT and covers a period of 24 hours beginning at 09:00 and 21:00 UTC respectively.The forecast contains wind warnings in force (≥7 Bft) and a forecast of: general synopsis, wind direction and force, weather and visibility for the districts mentioned above. For the time indication, 'first' or 'soon' are used for a change in the weather in the first 4 hours of the time block, 'later' is used to indicate a change in the last 4 hours. The data is published in two different formats: txt and xml.
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 2023-09-18
- Edition
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1
- Citation identifier
- urn:xkdc:ds:nl.knmi::shipping_forecast_north_sea/1.0/
- Purpose
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Informing about the weather situation on the North Sea
- Status
- On going
- 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
- Continual
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DG Discovery Properties Vocabulary 1.0
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Weather forecast
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Wind direction
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Wind force
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Wind gust
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Visibility
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North Sea
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- Keywords
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Open data
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- Use limitation
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No use limitations
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
- Spatial representation type
- Text, table
- Denominator
- 1
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 2023-09-18
- End date
- 9999-12-31
- Supplemental Information
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For more information regarding an explanation of the terminology used in the data, please visit: https://www.knmi.nl/nederland-nu/maritiem/scheepsweerbericht_uitleg.
- Reference system identifier
- http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4326
- Distribution format
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Name Version ASCII
1.0
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (KNMI)
Point of contact
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name landingpage
https://dataplatform.knmi.nl/catalog/datasets/index.html?x-dataset=shipping_forecast_north_sea&x-dataset-version=1.0 KNMI Data Platform
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Statement
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KNMI Meteorological Data distribution System (KMDS) storage
Metadata
- File identifier
- ca658c70-53d5-11ee-9306-9ebf61dc369e XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-06-02T12:15:57.131Z
- 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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