Station Locations

Define the stations (time series) and their locations. The station locations may be loaded from a point shape file or a x, y name file. The process is in two steps the first steps involves browsing for the file and the second actually importing the station locations by clicking the ‘Import stations’ button. If a pro­jection is associated with the shape file (a *.prj file is located next to the shape file) this is used to populate the projection field. If no *.prj file is present or the user has selected an xyz file then the projection is to be supplied. Please note that all subsequent geo-referenced data must use the same pro­jection.

For each station a name is supplied if it has not been provided from the shape file along with a dfs0 file holding the data. The tool does not modify the data in the input dfs0 files and thus the data from the various input files must be com­patible i.e. the same type of data and the same unit e.g. rainfall all in millime­tres.

Once the table has been filled out the next button may be clicked. This action will validate the data more specifically

·         dfs0 files are checked with regards to existence

·         the existence of a common time span of the time series

·         the locations and the stations are valid data

Please note that the x,y name file has the extension *.xyz and the values are space delimited.