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This icon allows you to specify a geographical location which may or may not coincide with a meteorological station. It is also equipped with a search facility applicable to the ECMWF’s station database.

If the location is a meteorological station, you can use the Stations tool to search the database of stations. The search can be carried out by Identifier, WMO block, Position or Area.

For details of how to use the Stations search tool please refer to "Stations" in "The Metview Tools" on page I- 133.

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From Macro/Python the icon can be called as stations()



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If you are in doubt about the spelling or know only part of the name you can enter a guess string (e.g. "kobe" or "port") and hit return. Then click the station assist stations help button to the left of the text field - you will see a list of stations whose name starts with the guess string.

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Click the one you want and its name will replace the guess string in the input field.You can use the station assist button directly - it launches the Stations database search tool. From the stations returned by your search, click the one you want and its name will appear in the input field.

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