21 : Summertime for precipitation stations (Norway)

Pri	Akt.Nr.	Ressurs Navn og tidsverk	System	Oppgave	Beskrivelse	Lenker	Status	Gjennomførings Periode og underprioritet
0	21	BM VB	qaBase obs_pgm	Summertime for precipitation stations	Switching obstime for precipitation stations due to summer/wintertime has up to now been done in obs_pgm twice a year. This should have been automized by adding a new feature to Kvalobs. The insert of missing values should have used a function to give the correct actual obstime. Information about when to use this function should be kept in obs_pgm.	Terminated	Pri 0-1 Mar 08
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Scope

met.no / Per-Ove Kjensli> We have decided to avoid this problem by setting the obstime to be fixed at 06 UTC throughout the year. We experience that the obstimes are rather miscellaneous at the observers site. In reality we speak of a “morning observation” at manual precipitation stations. We will update the obstime to 06 UTC in our Climate DB's for all previous years. The decision is influenced by the fact that in future all stations will use 06 UTC as the real obstime.

Task

We terminate the activity after setting a fixed obstime of 06 UTC for manual precipitation stations reporting data by weekly cards (Kvalobs typeid = 402)