Overview of Automated QA - July 1995

Mark Shafer has provided the following overview of the results of the
automated quality assurance of the July 1995 Oklahoma Mesonet data:
PROBLEM SITES:
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KETC  TS05      25th - 31st, a number of suspect flags.  No problem
                listed in badparm.

KING  TS30      Beginning on the 3rd and lasting the remaininder of the
                month, suspect and failure flags.  Flagged 2 in badparm 
                on 10/02.

NINN  TS05      25th - 31st, suspect flags from spatial test.  No trouble-
                ticket issued.

NOWA  RELH      4th - 30th, failing range test sporadically.  No trouble-
                ticket issued until 1996/07/14, but sensor may have been
                replaced during a routine technician visit.

RING  PRES      Several pressure spikes throughtout month.  Errors were
                caught but it suggests an erratic sensor.

SALL  SRAD      Entire month, readings dropping below -1 at night, appeared
                reasonable during daylight.

LEAF            KETC (1st), MARE (1st), LAHO (3rd), BOWL (6th), CLAY (6th),
                GOOD (10th), BESS (19th).

Users of these data should obtain the detailed automated quality 
assurance results from ARM.

• -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)