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 Terms and standards for automated weather station reports.
+===== Essential Climate Variables =====
+<blockquote>An Essential Climate Variable (ECV) is a physical, chemical or biological variable or a group of linked variables that critically contributes to the characterization of Earth’ s climate. GCOS currently specifies 55 ECVs.
+<cite>[[https://gcos.wmo.int/en/essential-climate-variables/about|ECV - About]]</cite>
+</blockquote>
+The interesting bit for me is the specifications of accuracy that are required for data to be useful for climatology. Measurements for weather forecasts are probably more helpful. I don't know if they are different.
 ===== Wind =====
+[[https://gcos.wmo.int/en/essential-climate-variables/surface-wind]]
 ==== Gust ====