Overview of Automated Quality Assurance for August 1996

Review of automated quality assurance runs for August 1996 by Mark Shafer:
There were a few stations / parameters of which to be 
suspicious.  MARS TS10 showed an 8-9 degree warm bias,
but a trouble ticket was not issued until Sep. 24.  It
apparently wasn't enough to consistently trigger any
flags.  COPA TS10 also appeared suspect from August 1-10.
ALTU BATV appeared low during the 16-20th, and a trouble-
ticket was issued on that Sep 29.  The voltage was
actually reading too high, so I doubt there was any
effect on the instruments.

Otherwise, the QA seemed to match reality, more or less
(given the usual problems of local effects, inversions,
dryline passages, etc.).

Users of these data should review the automatically generated
quality assurance files.

• -180.0 - +180.0(alt)
• accumulated rainfall since 00GMT except at 00 GMT, the number given is the total
  accumulation for the past 24 hours(prec_amt)
• vector average wind magnitude(wvec_10m)
• Time offset from base_time(time_offset)
• Retrieved pressure profile(pres)
• standard deviation of wind speed(wspd_sigma)
• average wind run (arithmetic average speed) at 10m(wspd_10m)
• vector average of wind direction measured at 10m(wdir_10m)
• air temperature at 1.5m(tdry_1_5m)
• base time in epoch(base_time)
• lon(lon)
• maximum 3-second wind speed within the 5-minute averaging period(wspd_max)
• average wind speed at 2m(wspd_2m)
• Relative Humidity (hybrid-b grid)(rh)
• air temperature at 9m(tdry_9m)
• solar radiation(srad)
• standard deviation of wind direction(wdir_sigma)
• North Latitude(lat)

• leaf wetness index, measurement of dew ranging from 0 (dry) to 100(wet)(leaf_ind)
• -180.0 - +180.0(alt)
• soil temperature at 5 cm beneath natural sod cover(tsoil5)
• 10 cm soil temp(tsoil10)
• soil temperature at 5 cm beneath bare soil(tbare5)
• Average battery voltage(vbat)
• base time in epoch(base_time)
• lon(lon)
• soil temperature at 10cm beneath bare soil(tbare10)
• soil temperature at 30 cm beneath bare soil(tbare30)
• Time offset from base_time(time_offset)
• North Latitude(lat)