On 2021-01-13 18:17:05 deloptes wrote:
J Leslie Turriff wrote:
Mapping to Canadian provinces wouldn't be too hard; where can I get the list of stations? Don't know about other countries; you'd have to ask people from those places for help.
https://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/nsd_cccc.txt
https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/tdetoys/src/branch/issue/9/ kweather/kweather/data/nsd_cccc.txt
$ grep Canada nsd_cccc.txt
Can you create a simple mapping ( station_ID state_ID) and review the state_ids below, please?
[CA] name=Canada states=AB BC MB NB NF NS NT ON QC SK YK
Also PE and NU; and according to Wikipedia, YK is commonly used, but the official code is YT. (!) And, Newfoundland (NF) is now Newfoundland and Labrador (NL). This seems to be up to date now. Note, though, that abbreviations in the nsd_cccc.txt file might not be as up-to-date as this list: :-)
| New | Old (Eng., Fr) | Name | ----- | --------------- | --------------------- | AB | Alta, Alb | Alberta | BC | B C, C-B | British Columbia | MB | Man | Manitoba | NB | N B, N-B | New Brunswick | NL | Nfld,N L, T-N-L | Newfoundland and Labrador | NS | N S, N-E | Nova Scotia | NT | N W T, T N-O | Northwest Territories | NU | Nvt, Nt | Nunavut | ON | Ont | Ontario | PE | P E I, I P E | Prince Edward Island | QC | Que, Qc, PQ, QU | Quebec | SK | Sask | Saskatchewan | YT,YK | Yuk, Yn | Yukon Territory
Many of the entries in nsd_cccc.txt have the province appended to the location instead of in the State field, but many more have none at all. What fun!
Leslie --
J Leslie Turriff wrote:
Also PE and NU; and according to Wikipedia, YK is commonly used, but the official code is YT. (!) And, Newfoundland (NF) is now Newfoundland and Labrador (NL). This seems to be up to date now. Note, though, that abbreviations in the nsd_cccc.txt file might not be as up-to-date as this list: :-)
| New | Old (Eng., Fr) | Name | ----- | --------------- | --------------------- | AB | Alta, Alb | Alberta | BC | B C, C-B | British Columbia | MB | Man | Manitoba | NB | N B, N-B | New Brunswick | NL | Nfld,N L, T-N-L | Newfoundland and Labrador | NS | N S, N-E | Nova Scotia | NT | N W T, T N-O | Northwest Territories | NU | Nvt, Nt | Nunavut | ON | Ont | Ontario | PE | P E I, I P E | Prince Edward Island | QC | Que, Qc, PQ, QU | Quebec | SK | Sask | Saskatchewan | YT,YK | Yuk, Yn | Yukon Territory
Many of the entries in nsd_cccc.txt have the province appended to the location instead of in the State field, but many more have none at all. What fun!
I do not think we can change this unless someone talks to NOAA.
The plan now is - we use the source nsd_cccc.txt maintain our own file station_names.txt where we correct names, add mapping to states and regions and flag the stations status as operational, decommissioned or unknown.
this seems sufficient to generate required files with much better quality and level of completeness than given at present
regards
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deloptes -
J Leslie Turriff