<ul><li>Automated software generates climate grids portraying the distribution of values of a selected phenomena across a country over defined time periods (e.g. yesterday, last month, last year)</li><br /></p><p></ul><br /></p><p><ul><li>The software selects observations that meet a specific quality flag as at the runtime date and generates derived data over the given time period</li><br /></p><p></ul><br /></p><p><ul><li>The software further queries <b>observations metadata</b> to ensure that the station was considered operational over the time period of the analysis</li><br /></p><p></ul><br /></p><p><ul><li>The software then generates climate grids using spatial statistical analysis, replacing existing grids where observation values have been changed due to climate quality control processes</li><br /></p><p></ul><br /></p>