<ul><li>A Climatological station with a long time-series of observations and <b>observations metadata</b> is destroyed or decommissioned</li><br /></p><p></ul><br /></p><p><ul><li>A climate data manager attempts to determine if there are any adjacent quality stations that could be promoted as a climate station</li><br /></p><p></ul><br /></p><p><ul><li>She selects all stations within a buffer of five kilometres around the destroyed station, modified to exclude stations within unsuitable topographic locations and reviews the timeseries observations data and observations metadata to assess the potential of the station for preserving the long term climatological record for that area</li><br /></p><p></ul><br /></p>