A6 - Totaliser precipitation stations - Measured values
In supplement to 5. Manual precipitation stations – Measured values in mountainous areas that are difficult to access, MeteoSwiss operates around 60 totalisers which record the volume of precipitation for an entire year (see section "Totaliser monitoring network – annual readings" here.
[!NOTE] For climate analyses, use the corresponding homogeneous time series data instead.
6.1. Data granularity, update frequency, format and volume
There are files of data granularity y
and update frequency yearly (historical
) for each station.
Data format of all files is CSV
with an estimated volume of ≤0.6 MB per file.
See example data file for station MGR
(set in lower case): ogd-tot_mgr_y_historical
.
6.2. Parameter metadata
See example parameter metadata file of data granularity: y
.
The productive version will provide a parameter metadata file with the name: ogd-tot_meta_parameters.csv
.
6.3. Station metadata
See example station metadata file.
The productive version will provide a station metadata file with the file name: ogd-tot_meta_stations.csv
.
6.4. Data visualisation
See e.g. MeteoSwiss' SwissMetNet network map.