| Description: | Discussion by Mark Shafer of results of automated quality assurance
runs for November 1996 data.
As far as the November qa goes, it looks like it performed well. A couple
of things to note are:
(1) CLAR (Claremore) data may be a bit suspicious at times throughout
November - battery voltage was conistently reporting low, and low
power could possibly affect sensor performance. I did not see any
evidence of such an effect, but I thought I would caution you on this
station.
(2) I believe we may have had an icing event on November 13-14 and 19-20
(at least a minor event). The persistence routine flagged several
stations for low variability in the data on WSSD and RELH. If the
Wind monitor gets iced, Wind Speed Standard Deviation will be zero,
thus triggering the persistence check.
Otherwise, things looked like they were flagged properly. There are still
some sites where inversions may be flagged as suspect (notably MEDI and
CHEY) and some wind directions are flagged as suspect, but I did not notice
any erroneous warning or failure flags. |