WIGOS Learning Portal: Reopening an older (legacy) station

Hi colleagues,
I have the same problem.
Ordinary climatological station, (KAVADARCI, 0-20000-0-13599, no data exchange) closed in 1996. In 2015 near the old location (2-3 km, same city) we activated AWS which is now going into international exchange. To register this new station in OSCAR I want to use the name of the original station (normally with new coordinates and new WIGOS ID 0-807-0-KAVADARCI) but OSCAR does not allow the same name (although ID and coordinates are different). Since the data from the first / old station was not in international exchange, I have the idea to delete the closed old station from OSCAR first, and register it again in OSCAR under the new name (without changing original ID and coordinates) and take its name for the new AWS. Could this (coordinate and WIGOS ID of the old station will remain the same) cause some problem in some system???
Please for advices

Re: Reopening an older (legacy) station

by Luis Filipe NUNES - Thursday, 11 February 2021, 6:16 PM

Dear Aleksandar,

Apologies for the very delayed response.

Please note that there is no need to "delete" a station in OSCAR/Surface to create another one located in the same city.

Currently, OSCAR/Surface doesn't allow two stations to have the same name, but that constraint is about to be lifted in the next release (1.6.0) of OSCAR/Surface which will be available very soon.

On the other hand, a solution, that is adopted in various countries, could be to add a few letters (or a word) to the name of city to allow distinguishing several stations located in the same city, for example, Kavadarci-North, Kavadarci-South, Kavadarci-Centre, etc, or something similar, if that makes sense in your national network.

Finally, when creating a new station, the inserted coordinates should be as accurate as possible.

Thank you, best regards,

Luis