Start Date | Start Time | End Date | End Time | Data Quality Metric |
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03/01/1994 | 0000 | 10/12/1995 | 2359 | Suspect |
Subject: | SGP/5MWRAVG/B1/B4/B5 - Valid LWP > 1 mm excluded from 5 min avgs |
DataStreams: | sgp5mwravgB4.c1, sgp5mwravgB5.c1, sgp5mwravgB1.c1 |
Description: | Note: These data have not been and will not be reprocessed. The MWRAVG VAP has been retired. The limit of maximum valid liquid water path was set at 1 mm. Although this limit was selected 'conservatively' so as to definitely flag precipitation-contaminated data in the 20-second (sgpmwrlos) files, the effect has been to exclude valid liquid water paths greater than 1 mm from the 5-minute averages (sgp5mwravg). The following actions are recommended: 1) the maximum limits for precipitable water vapor (PWV) and liquid water path (LWP) be removed and, 2) the averaging algorithm instead exclude data on the basis of the brightness temperature flags. These flags are set below a minimum of 2.75 K (cosmic background) and above a maximum of 100 K (precipitation). |
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Measurements: | sgp5mwravgB4.c1: more
sgp5mwravgB5.c1: more sgp5mwravgB1.c1: more |