DQRID : D080319.3
Start DateStart TimeEnd DateEnd Time Data Quality Metric
02/01/2008000003/12/20080000Suspect
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Subject:
NSA/MWRP/C1 - Thermal instability- TKnd test
DataStreams:nsamwrpC1.b1
Description:
During this time the radiometer was thermally unstable . The noise diode physical 
temperature had sudden drops of more than 5 degree in several ccasions between 2/1 and 2/11. On 
2/12 the radiometer temperature set point was lowered of about 10 degree as a test. On 
2/27 a new analog board was installed in the instrument. Data after 2/27 show a slight 
change in calibration.
Suggestions: 
Data between 2/1 and 2/27 suffer from bad calibration due to the thermal instability 

and the lowering of the radiometer temperature set point and should be avoided. Data 
after 2/27 will be analyzed to assess if they can be recalibrated.
Measurements:nsamwrpC1.b1:
  • relativeHumidity
  • liquidWaterContent
  • waterVaporMixingRatio
  • virtualTemperature
  • brightnessTemperature
  • totalPrecipitableWater
  • totalPrecipitableWater2
  • waterVaporDensity
  • waterVaporDensityRmsError
  • liquidWaterPath
  • temperature
  • liquidWaterPath2
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