Hi Mohammad,

A mapping between weather station identifier codes and location is available here. You could also use WL to find the nearest city to the position. Multiple stations could map the the same city though.

SeedRandom[12];
samplePositions =
  allWeatherStations //
  RandomSample[#, 50] & //   
  Map[{# -> EntityValue[#, "Position"]} &] //  
  DeleteCases[#, {_ -> _Missing}] & //
  Map[#[[1, 1]] -> Flatten@{#[[1, 2]], GeoNearest["City", #[[1, 2]]]} &]

samplePositions // Take[#, 5] & // InputForm // Column[{#}] &

(*
{Entity["WeatherStation", "ESSV"] -> {GeoPosition[{57.663000000000004, 18.346}], Entity["City", {"Visby", "Gotland", "Sweden"}]},
 Entity["WeatherStation", "NGFO"] -> {GeoPosition[{-5.667, 176.133}], Entity["City", {"Lolua", "Nanumea", "Tuvalu"}]},
 Entity["WeatherStation", "KSSF"] -> {GeoPosition[{29.337, -98.471}], Entity["City", {"SanAntonio", "Texas", "UnitedStates"}]}, 
 Entity["WeatherStation", "WMO94520"] -> {GeoPosition[{-28.979, 148.99}], Entity["City", {"Moree", "NewSouthWales", "Australia"}]},
 Entity["WeatherStation", "CWQK"] -> {GeoPosition[{48.298, -123.532}], Entity["City", {"Sooke", "BritishColumbia", "Canada"}]}}
*)

Hi Rohit,

Please have a look at Fig.1 in the enclosed file. The authors have used several thousand rivers around the World.

Regarding your last suggestion for deriving weather stations name and location on the World map, I decided to study air temperature and rainfall record for all weather stations in allWeatherStations command. What do you think? Is it possible? How do I get data for all station during 2010-2018?

Thank so much again.

Mohammad

Attachments:

Nature Paper.pdf

Dear Rohit,

Thank you so much again. Your help is greatly appreciated.

Now we have two options:

Drawing the time series for all stations and selection of station (stations) based on the completeness of the data by looking at the plots, OR, selection of large cities based on your solution way. Which one do you prefer the most? Is there any way to draw time series plots for several stations (for example 20 stations) with the station name on the plots?

I am going to start to gather the data for all stations.

Thank you so much again for your time.

Regards, Mohammad

Hi Mohammad,

Let us continue this exploration over email. If we come up with something interesting / useful to a wider audience we can publish it here or in the Notebook Archive. I will email you later today or tomorrow.

Rohit