
Overview
THIS DATASET IS CHANGING
Files uploaded from late January 2026 onward will contain changes including:
- precision changes
- new parameters
- changes to existing parameters e.g. adding vertical levels and timesteps
- the height_asl_on_pressure_levels parameter will be replaced by geopotential_height_on_pressure_levels
Please check your systems are prepared for these changes.
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.
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- How to use
- To access these resources, reference the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) using the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI). Learn more
- Description
- Met Office UK Deterministic (UKV)2km on a 2-year rolling archive
- Resource type
- S3 bucket
- Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
- arn:aws:s3:::met-office-atmospheric-model-data
- AWS region
- eu-west-2
- AWS CLI access (No AWS account required)
- aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://met-office-atmospheric-model-data/
- Description
- Notifications for new atmospheric model data
- Resource type
- SNS topic
- Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
- arn:aws:sns:eu-west-2:633885181284:met-office-atmospheric-model-data-object_created
- AWS region
- eu-west-2
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servicedesk@metoffice.gov.uk . Service desk is only available Mon – Fri, 09:00 until 17:00 UTC (-1 hour during BST). As a non-operational service we aim to respond to any service support enquiries within 3-5 business days.
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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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British Crown copyright 2023-2025, the Met Office, is licensed under CC BY-SA
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