If your data are already in any of the inventories, editing should be intuitive. Column labels for each database are further elucidated below. If you have new records for the inventory, you can choose to add them manually or copy/paste them into the spreadsheet, if your data adheres to the format. If your data are in a different format, feel free to send it to us, in any form, and we will manually add the records.
Anyone can view the inventories, but to be able to edit, please send an email, from a google account, to [email protected] to be granted editing access. Any changes you make are saved instantly, and the file is backed up every time anyone makes a change.
Surface Data:
Column 1: WMO - The WMO station ID, if the record has one, if not then use -999.
Column 2: Station - Station Name.
Column 3-4: Lon (E) & Lat (N) - Longitude in degrees east and Latitude in degrees north, use decimals rather than minutes/seconds
Column 5: Altitude - Altitude in metres above sea level.
Column 6-7: Start & End - Start and end day of the record, enter the very first and last day, do not worry about gaps. Information regarding gaps can be input into the comment box (Column 24).
Column 8: Time Resolution - Number of Observations per day. For example, "24, 5, 3", would indicate hourly observations and 5 and 3 times-daily observations. 4-6 would indicate observations at intervals of 4, 5 and 6 hours.
Column 9-23: Climate Variables - Indicates with a 1/0 (1 = True, 0 = False) whether the record contains information for a particular climate variable.
Column 25: Level - The stage of rescue/digitisation. Formatting is six digits, 1 or 0 for true/false as before.
Column 26: Link to Data - URL to online data archive or E-mail address of someone with access to it.
Upper Air Data:
Moving Upper Air Data:
Maritime Data:
WMO guidelines on data rescue.
WMO guidelines on climatological practices.
Anyone can view the inventories, but to be able to edit, please send an email, from a google account, to [email protected] to be granted editing access. Any changes you make are saved instantly, and the file is backed up every time anyone makes a change.
Surface Data:
Column 1: WMO - The WMO station ID, if the record has one, if not then use -999.
Column 2: Station - Station Name.
Column 3-4: Lon (E) & Lat (N) - Longitude in degrees east and Latitude in degrees north, use decimals rather than minutes/seconds
Column 5: Altitude - Altitude in metres above sea level.
Column 6-7: Start & End - Start and end day of the record, enter the very first and last day, do not worry about gaps. Information regarding gaps can be input into the comment box (Column 24).
Column 8: Time Resolution - Number of Observations per day. For example, "24, 5, 3", would indicate hourly observations and 5 and 3 times-daily observations. 4-6 would indicate observations at intervals of 4, 5 and 6 hours.
Column 9-23: Climate Variables - Indicates with a 1/0 (1 = True, 0 = False) whether the record contains information for a particular climate variable.
- ws - wind speed
- dir - wind direction
- ps - air pressure
- pst - temperature of the thermometer next to the barometer
- sat - surface air temperature (includes max/min)
- grass - grass temperature
- soil - soil temperature
- hur - relative humidity
- hus - specific humidity
- dew - dewpoint temperature
- wet - wetbulb temperature
- cloud - cloud cover
- sun - sunshine duration
- pr - precipitation
Column 25: Level - The stage of rescue/digitisation. Formatting is six digits, 1 or 0 for true/false as before.
- Stage 1 - Physical copy of the data found, no imaging or digitisation done.
- Stage 1 - Physical copy of the data found, no imaging or digitisation done.?
- Stage 1 - Physical copy of the data found, no imaging or digitisation done.??
- Stage 1 - Physical copy of the data found, no imaging or digitisation done.???
- Stage 1 - Physical copy of the data found, no imaging or digitisation done.????
- Stage 1 - Physical copy of the data found, no imaging or digitisation done.?????
Column 26: Link to Data - URL to online data archive or E-mail address of someone with access to it.
Upper Air Data:
Moving Upper Air Data:
Maritime Data:
WMO guidelines on data rescue.
WMO guidelines on climatological practices.