Overview
The CHC import function (<importType>CHC</importType>) imports external historical time series from a specific CSV files for FEWS Basque. Since the csv data is specified in local time format, a timezone has to be configured in the importer:
<importTimeZone> <timeZoneName>CET</timeZoneName> </importTimeZone>
- These files are received each 5 minutes and include all the signals for that interval.
- Their name gives the date and time.
- Time is local (i.e. +2 hr GMT in summer and +1hr GMT in winter)
- Each line of the file represents one signal
- There are 5 fields per line separated by ; They are:
- Type of station (A: river gauge station)
- Code of station and signal.
- he first 4 characters represent the code of the station (for example 1080)
- the last 5 characters represent the type of signal:
- NRIO1 or NRL7S: level in river in m;
- QRIO1: discharge in river in m3/s,
- PCINC: precipitation in mm
- TEMEX: temperature in ºC
- Date (day/month/year) and time (hour:minutes:seconds)
- Value of the signal. The “,” represents the decimal point
- Quality of the signal:
- BUENO/BUENA: good; FEWS quality flag: ORIGINAL_RELIABLE
- MALO/MALA: bad; FEWS quality flag: ORIGINAL_DOUBTFUL
- NO DATO: no data; FEWS quality flag: ORIGINAL_MISSING
Example
A;1080_AINRIO1;15/05/2014 13:05:00;1,830000;BUENO A;1080_AINRIO1;15/05/2014 13:10:00;1,830000;BUENO A;1080_AINRIO1;15/05/2014 13:15:00;1,830000;BUENO
