GBON Upper air station discontinuation

GBON Upper air station discontinuation

de Karl Monnik -
Número de respuestas: 2

Greetings all

Australia has relocated a GBON UA station from an airport to a new site. 

Original site: https://oscar.wmo.int/surface//index.html#/search/station/stationReportDetails/0-20000-0-94578

New site: https://oscar.wmo.int/surface//index.html#/search/station/stationReportDetails/0-36-9-94159

The new site correctly identifies station class as GBON Upper air station.

However, the original site still has the following station class(es):

Climatological station, GBON Surface station, GBON Upper air station, Precipitation station, Surface land meteorological station (SYNOP), Weather radar.

It terms of metadata I have changed for Atmospheric Pressure Profile:

- put an end to the deployment time period

 - changed near real time to 'no'

- changed observing method to 'unknown'

- changed intended for international distribution to 'no'

What else needs to be done to remove GBON Upper air station?

Kind regards

Karl Monnik

OSCAR/Surface NFP AUS

En respuesta a Karl Monnik

Re: GBON Upper air station discontinuation

de Luis Filipe NUNES -
Hi Karl,
Please check the variable Atmosphere/Temperature/Temperature profile [Geometry: Vertical profile]; I believe the same should be done as for Atmospheric pressure profile, in order to close the affiliation of temperature profile with GBON. Important reference is paragraph 10.4.2.2 "GBON station compliance assessment" of the Guide to WIGOS (WMO-No. 1165) https://library.wmo.int/idurl/4/55696. This is explicitly shown on OSCAR/Surface when hoovering over the "GBON upper-air station" class (https://oscar.wmo.int/surface//index.html#/search/station).
I hope this helps, and it would be great to hear experiences from other colleagues.
Thank you, kind regards,
Luis
En respuesta a Luis Filipe NUNES

Re: GBON Upper air station discontinuation

de Karl Monnik -

Thank you Luis. I realise I need to adjust the metadata concerning Temperature Profile in the first instance. When I removed 'GBON' from the observed variable Program/network affiliation, then it saved without the GBON Upper Air class.

Thank you for your prompt help.