Historical climate

Within the import module is the Historical climate, which allows to import historical climate by means of flat files.

Historical data is very important for the platform, this data is used for the process of climate prediction generation and information visualization. These data are used in the probabilistic prediction component.

Note

This option is available for users who have the roles of ADMIN, CLIMATOLOGIST, IMPROVER.

What does this module allow you to do?

The Historical climate module allows you to upload flat files with monthly weather history data. Each file contain information from one or several weather stations at a time. The data must be specific to each station. The climate variables that can be imported are: precipitation prec, maximum temperature t_max, minimum temperature t_min and solar radiation sol_rad.

Note

Only one variable can be imported per file.

When importing, it must be specified whether the weather stations are to be searched by name or by external code.

How to access to the historical climate module?

To access to the historical climate module, you must go to the top menu and select the Import option and in the submenu that is displayed you must select Historical climate.

Import historical climate

For more details on how to import historical climate and the format of the file to import, please click here Importing monthly data

To perform the import, a flat file must be prepared with the information for each weather station. This file must be in CSV format. Select the file from your device.
The type of search must be selected, you can choose between external ID or the name of the station.
Then choose the climatic variable (measurement) to be imported. Then select the file to be imported.
Finally, click on the Import button.

CSV columns
Column	Meaning
year	year - number type
month	month of the year - number type
name of the point	It can be a id, string or extension id

Note

The file must have the following format:

Line 1 must start with the headers year and month, then the search parameter of the stations as chosen. Each station must be separated by comma. The following example is parameterized by external codes:

year,month,26055070,26060020,26070110

The following lines contain the information by year, month and the values for each station. Example:

1981,1,75.1,38,10

The following is an example of what the file would look like in the excel viewer

The following is an example of what the file would look like in text viewer

Warning

Make sure that the values of the year and month columns are of numeric type and the data of each station are of double type.