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Response received from the Met Office-The Met Office is a Trading Fund within the meaning of the Government Trading Funds Act (1973). Consequently, the Met Office is required to operate on a profit-making basis in order to return a dividend to its owner, the Ministry of Defence, and to generate funds for reinvestment into its business. The Public Weather Service represents only one area of the Met Office's activities. It is this area that should be regarded as encompassing the Met Office's Public Task. The outputs from the Public Weather Service are agreed with the Public Weather Service Customer Group (PWSCG) from time to time. Only those agreed outputs should, strictly, be regarded as Public Sector Information.

You can read more about the Public Weather Service and PWSCG at: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pws/ and http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pws/pwscg.html

Currently, our 15 minute, 5km radar data is classified as a Public Weather Service Product, as is certain of our observation data. Our 2 minute, 2km radar data is, however, a commercial product for which a licence fee may be charged. More information on obtaining commercial licences for our products and services is available from our Customer Centre: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/contact/contact.html

In terms of obtaining Public Sector Information and other free services from the Met Office:

We are currently working on implementing a suite of licensing terms covering all of the content available on our website (other than content for which we indicate that a fee must be paid - essentially, content forming part of our commercial services). There will be two categories of information available: Unregistered Free Content and Registered Free Content. Both categories will be made available under free licences with very few restrictions. The licences for both categories of information will be available without application to the Met Office - although the 'Registered' licence, as the name implies, will require users to register their details with the Met Office before they are able to access the data. We hope to make these new licences available by the end of April at the latest.

In the meantime, we have a process whereby users fill out a licence application for re-use and then the Intellectual Property Rights team process this request. At the Met Office we aim to allow re-use of our information for no or as little cost as possible. But all these factors are assessed after we have received the licence application. It is a very simple process and should not take a long time. Users can apply to re-use our Public Sector Information by visiting: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/legal/repro_licence.html and completing the reproduction licence application form.

I apologise if the notice currently displayed at: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/ is misleading. It should not imply that the Met Office is unwilling to licence this content. We will amend this page shortly and anticipate the content displayed here falling within one of the categories of new free licence referred to above.

With regard to historic observation data, the Met Office already makes a great deal of observation data available for download, for free, through the 'Invent' service. You can access this data by visiting: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/pws/invent/weathermap/, selecting the variables required, and clicking the 'Download data' button. Users are required to register for a free account in order to download the data. These downloads will fall within the 'free registered' category of new licences. A great deal of data is available through this service and the Met Office will be looking to add more all the time. If users prefer to make use of the data as it is displayed at http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/observations/ then they can apply using the process outlined above (in future, this would fall under the 'unregistered free' category)The final part of the request was for a wiki describing the data, its limitations, quirks, etc. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide such a service at present due to current infrastructure and resource limitations. We are in the process of upgrading our web platform to allow us much greater flexibility and will consider whether we can provide such a service in the future. A great deal of information regarding the data is already available at: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/pws/invent/pwsdatahelp.html/. If users feel that any information is missing from this, we would welcome feedback via: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/pws/invent/feedback.html/ or via our Customer Centre: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/contact/contact.html