Weather Observations Website (WOW)

The WOW service is a website hosted by the MetOffice (http://wow.metoffice.gov.uk/) that allows registered users to upload data from measurement stations. Once uploaded the data can be viewed through the WOW website by the general public.

The WOW export implements the automatic upload API. Of which the documentation can be found here (http://wow.metoffice.gov.uk/support/dataformats#automatic). Through this API it is possible to upload a single set of measurement values of a weatherstation for each call.

For uploading data the following information is required:

• Site identifier: unieque numeric id of the site
• AWS pin: A pin number that is linked to the site.
• Date: date of measurement. For encoding see WOW website.
• Software Type: The name of the software, to identify which piece of software and which version is uploading data.

On the WOW website there is a table Weather Data which describes the accepted parameter keys. Note that the expected units are not metric, so all data values configured in the metric system must be converted.