Meteorological Databases: Metadata Analysis of the Weather Station Network in the Santa Catarina State, Brazil

Abstract The objective of this paper was to evaluate the weather stations metadata in Santa Catarina state based on the recommendations of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Metadata available at websites of the Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia (INMET), the Agritempo, the Agência Nacional de Águas (ANA) and the Empresa de Pesquisa Agropecuária e Extensão Rural de Santa Catarina (Epagri) were evaluated. The results showed that the metadata available for the weather stations that cover the state of Santa Catarina does not fully meet the OMM recommendations. There are problems in the stations coding and geo-referencing. There are registration problems regarding institutional responsibility for the stations and there are cadastral inconsistency between stations present in more than one database. There are also uncertainties related to the geographical position of the stations.