Warning

As of 2026-11-01 station D15-FA-1 (WSI 0-20000-0-06201) will be decommissioned. After this date, no new data will be added. The archive will remain available.


Abstract

KNMI collects in-situ meteorological surface observations from automatic weather stations situated in the Netherlands, including the Caribbean Netherlands (BES islands). The network consists of sea and land-based locations, including wind poles and sites at airports.

The weather stations report every 10 minutes essential climate variables (ECVs), surface precipitation, pressure, global radiation, temperature, wind speed and direction, clouds, and visibility. Variables such as sunshine duration are calculated from the ECVs. When applicable, minima, maxima, means, and sums are defined or calculated.

The number of available variables differs per station. The data for the past 10-minute interval is available a few minutes later and contains a timestamp denoting the end of the observation interval in UTC. It is possible that a station's observations may not be immediately available. The dataset can be updated with missing observations up to seven days later.

Supplemental information

For more information about this dataset, please read the technical documentation.

The following related datasets are available:

For more information about the relation between these datasets, see the technical documentation of the hourly and daily datasets.

Data quality notice

This dataset contains a historical archive since 2012-01-01. This archive should be seen as a history of the near-real time product. It has not undergone a manual validation process and is incomplete.


Metadata

Dataset name 10-minute-in-situ-meteorological-observations
Dataset version 1.0
Status onGoing
Update frequency continual
File formats NetCDF
Spatial representation type vector
License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
North bound latitude 55.7
East bound longitude 7.4
South bound latitude 12.0
West bound longitude -68.5
Dataset edition 1
Dataset manager Klimaat Team
Maintainer KNMI Data Services
Publication date 2025-04-01
Reference system identifier EPSG4326
Dataset start time 2012-01-01
Dataset end time 9999-12-31
Identifier urn:xkdc:ds:nl.knmi::10-minute-in-situ-meteorological-observations/1.0/
Lineage statement File created from KNMI's Meteorological Data Distribution System (KMDS)
Use limitation No use limitations
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