Station metadata

wis2box is designed to support data ingest and processing of any kind. For observations, processing workflow typically requires station metadata to be present at runtime.

wis2box provides the ability to cache station metadata from the WMO OSCAR/Surface system.

To cache your stations of interest, create a CSV file formatting per below, specifying one line (with station name and WIGOS station identifier [WSI]) per station:

station_name,wigos_station_identifier
Balaka,0-454-2-AWSBALAKA
Kayerekera,0-454-2-AWSKAYEREKERA
Lobi_EPA,0-454-2-AWSLOBI
Malomo_EPA,0-454-2-AWSMALOMO
Namitambo,0-454-2-AWSNAMITAMBO
Nkhoma_University,0-454-2-AWSNKHOMA
Toleza,0-454-2-AWSTOLEZA

Use this CSV to cache station metadata:

wis2box metadata station cache /path/to/station_list.csv

Resulting station metadata files (JSON) are stored in WIS2BOX_DATADIR/data/metadata/station and can be used by wis2box data processing pipelines. These data are required before starting automated processing.

Summary

At this point, you have cached the required station metadata for your given dataset(s).