WIGOS Learning Portal: Reporting interval

The WDQMS does not recognize the programming of conventional stations as it is not considering the “Reporting interval “of “Observations / measurements”.

Then the system AUTOMATICALLY sets 8 daily readings.

Our conventional stations are programmed in Oscar to perform 3 observation daily.

Thus, on normal days, in which the 3 observations are performed, an orange dot appears on the WDQMS (3 observations /8 Expected lectures = less than 80%).

Only when we enter in Oscar, edit the station, click Save on the observation schedules, the “Reporting interval” of 1 hour that is already defined starts to appear.

As there are hundreds of conventional stations, with 11 Observations / measurements schedules, with three daily observations, we have thousands of clicks to update.

Would it be possible to solve this bug by updating Oscar?

Re: Reporting interval

par Ercan Buyukbas, jeudi 11 août 2022, 08:56

Dear Luciano,

Thank you for your message and sharing the issue with reporting interval.

If you can send some examples, it would be very useful to understand the issues much better.

My first and fast comments for the issues you raised are as follows:

1) WDQMS gets the reporting interval information from OSCAR/Surface as registered by the NFPs (or metadata editors) and there is no difference in WDQMS for that process for automatic or conventional stations .

2) It is also possible to define multiple schedules for reporting interval in OSCAR/Surface depending on the operational conditions of the stations.

3) You can use OSCAR/Surface Web Client Tool (https://oscar.tools.wmo.int/web-client) for updating the metadata in OSCAR/Surface (https://vimeo.com/692187140).

4) I can also suggest to visit the following sites which have valuable material and information:

WIGOS Learning Portal (https://etrp.wmo.int/course/view.php?id=146)

OSCAR/Surface User Manual (https://library.wmo.int/doc_num.php?explnum_id=10921)

OSCAR/Surface Web Client Tool Presentation (https://library.wmo.int/doc_num.php?explnum_id=10598)

I hope these information can be helpful.

Please let us know about any further issues.

We will be pleased to support you for solving these issues.

Kind regards

Ercan Buyukbas

Re: Reporting interval

par Luciano Costa de Carvalho, mardi 30 août 2022, 13:25

Thank you Ercan
The proposal 3) "OSCAR/Surface Web Client Tool" worked correctly. The videos were very useful to understand how the tool works.
We have updated the “Reporting interval” of stations with problems.
Kind regards
Luciano Costa de Carvalho