Data Quality Report for Order ID: 187523
User ID: zhaow1    Date completed: 2017-08-31
All DQRs
DQR ID Subject Affected Data Streams Data Quality Metric
D140724.3 ENA/MWRP/C1 - Reprocess: Bias in brightness temperatures enamwrpC1.b1 Suspect
D140625.3 ENA/MWRP/C1 - Bad calibration enamwrpC1.b1 Incorrect
D151020.3 ENA/MWRP/C1 - Instrument removed for repairs enamwrpC1.b1 Missing
D140606.1 ENA/MWRP/C1 - Radiometer not calibrated enamwrpC1.b1 Incorrect
D140905.2 ENA/MWRP/C1 - Incorrect IRT readings enamwrpC1.b1 Incorrect
D150303.6 ENA/MWRP/C1 - Occasional outages of surface T/RH readings enamwrpC1.b1 Suspect
D141212.1 ENA/MWRP/C1 - Reprocessing Notice (RID 1261) enamwrpC1.b1 Note
D150826.1 ENA/MWRP/C1 - Intermittent data enamwrpC1.b1 Note
D150219.2 ENA/MWRP/C1 - Reprocess: Calibration drift enamwrpC1.b1 Incorrect
D170413.1 ENA/MWRP/C1 - Possible recalibration needed enamwrpC1.b1 Incorrect
 
DQR ID: D140724.3    (Back to Top)
Start Date Start Time End Date End Time Data Quality Metric
2014-06-04 14:00:00 2014-07-24 19:34:59 Suspect
Subject: ENA/MWRP/C1 - Reprocess: Bias in brightness temperatures
Affected Datastreams: enamwrpC1.b1
Description The brightness temperatures between 22.234 and 26.234 GHz show a bias of 1.7 to 3.6 degrees K. Data needs to be recalibrated. As a consequence the retrieved precipitable water vapor has a positive bias.
Measurements
  • brightnessTemperature (Microwave brightness temperature)
  • liquidWaterPath2 (Retrieved liquid water path using only 23.835 and 30.0 GHz)
  • totalPrecipitableWater2 (Retrieved total precipitable water vapor using only 23.835 and 30.0 GHz)
  • totalPrecipitableWater (Retrieved total precipitable water vapor)
  • liquidWaterPath (Retrieved liquid water path)
 
DQR ID: D140625.3    (Back to Top)
Start Date Start Time End Date End Time Data Quality Metric
2014-05-19 00:00:00 2014-06-04 14:59:00 Incorrect
Subject: ENA/MWRP/C1 - Bad calibration
Affected Datastreams: enamwrpC1.b1
Description The radiometer was poorly calibrated following a power outage at the site.
Measurements
  • virtualTemperature (Derived virtual temperature)
  • liquidWaterPath2 (Retrieved liquid water path using only 23.835 and 30.0 GHz)
  • totalPrecipitableWater2 (Retrieved total precipitable water vapor using only 23.835 and 30.0 GHz)
  • temperature (Retrieved absolute temperature)
  • liquidWaterContent (Retrieved cloud liquid water content)
  • levelFreeConvection (Level of free convection)
  • brightnessTemperature (Microwave brightness temperature)
  • liquidWaterPath (Retrieved liquid water path)
  • waterVaporDensity (Retrieved water vapor density)
  • waterVaporMixingRatio (Derived water vapor mixing ratio)
  • liftingCondensationLevel (Lifting condensation level)
  • totalPrecipitableWater (Retrieved total precipitable water vapor)
  • relativeHumidity (Derived relative humidity)
 
DQR ID: D151020.3    (Back to Top)
Start Date Start Time End Date End Time Data Quality Metric
2015-10-08 16:00:00 2017-03-24 11:00:00 Missing
Subject: ENA/MWRP/C1 - Instrument removed for repairs
Affected Datastreams: enamwrpC1.b1
Description The instrument was sent to the vendor fore repairs
Measurements
  • qc_infraredTemperature (Quality check results on field: Zenith-pointing infrared temperature at 10um)
  • virtualTemperature (Derived virtual temperature)
  • totalPrecipitableWater2RmsError (Expected root-mean-square error in precipitable water retrieval using only 23.835 and 30.0 GHz)
  • qc_levelFreeConvection (Quality check results on field: Level of free convection)
  • liquidWaterContent (Retrieved cloud liquid water content)
  • levelFreeConvection (Level of free convection)
  • dewpointTemperature (Derived dewpoint temperature)
  • qc_dewpointTemperature (Quality check results on field: Derived dewpoint temperature)
  • qc_totalPrecipitableWater2 (Quality check results on field: Retrieved total precipitable water vapor using only 23.835 and 30.0 GHz)
  • liquidWaterPath2 (Retrieved liquid water path using only 23.835 and 30.0 GHz)
  • qc_levelFreeConvectionPres (Quality check results on field: Level of free convection pressure)
  • qc_virtualTemperature (Quality check results on field: Derived virtual temperature)
  • height (Height)
  • qc_surfaceRelativeHumidity (Quality check results on field: Surface relative humidity at instrument)
  • liftingCondensationLevel (Lifting condensation level)
  • surfaceWaterVaporDensity (Surface water vapor density at instrument)
  • qc_blackbodyTemperature (Quality check results on field: Internal blackbody reference temperature)
  • qc_surfaceWaterVaporDensity (Quality check results on field: Surface water vapor density at instrument)
  • liquidWaterPath2RmsError (Expected root-mean-square error in liquid water path retrieval using only 23.835 and 30.0 GHz)
  • azimuth (Azimuth angle)
  • qc_surfacePressure (Quality check results on field: Surface pressure at instrument)
  • qc_totalPrecipitableWater (Quality check results on field: Retrieved total precipitable water vapor)
  • totalPrecipitableWaterRmsError (Expected root-mean-square error in precipitable water retrieval)
  • surfaceRelativeHumidity (Surface relative humidity at instrument)
  • lon (East longitude)
  • qc_time (Quality check results on field: Time offset from midnight)
  • frequency (Frequency)
  • base_time (Base time in Epoch)
  • qc_pressure (Quality check results on field: Derived pressure)
  • qc_waterVaporMixingRatio (Quality check results on field: Derived water vapor mixing ratio)
  • liquidWaterPath (Retrieved liquid water path)
  • qc_cloudBaseHeight (Quality check results on field: Derived cloud base height)
  • qc_waterVaporDensity (Quality check results on field: Retrieved water vapor density)
  • time_offset (Time offset from base_time)
  • qc_surfaceTemperature (Quality check results on field: Surface absolute temperature at instrument)
  • waterVaporMixingRatio (Derived water vapor mixing ratio)
  • qc_equilibriumLevel (Quality check results on field: Equilibrium level)
  • cape (Convective available potential energy)
  • totalPrecipitableWater (Retrieved total precipitable water vapor)
  • liquidWaterContentRmsError (Expected root-mean-square error in liquid water content retrieval)
  • relativeHumidity (Derived relative humidity)
  • equilibriumLevel (Equilibrium level)
  • dataQualityFlags (Data quality flags)
  • totalPrecipitableWater2 (Retrieved total precipitable water vapor using only 23.835 and 30.0 GHz)
  • surfaceTemperature (Surface absolute temperature at instrument)
  • qc_equilibriumLevelPres (Quality check results on field: Equilibrium level pressure)
  • qc_liftingCondensationLevel (Quality check results on field: Lifting condensation level)
  • levelFreeConvectionPres (Level of free convection pressure)
  • alt (Altitude above mean sea level)
  • cloudBaseHeight (Derived cloud base height)
  • waterVaporDensity (Retrieved water vapor density)
  • pressure (Derived pressure)
  • elevation (Elevation angle)
  • qc_liquidWaterPath2 (Quality check results on field: Retrieved liquid water path using only 23.835 and 30.0 GHz)
  • wetWindowFlag (Flag indicating moisture sensor status)
  • qc_temperature (Quality check results on field: Retrieved absolute temperature)
  • qc_liquidWaterPath (Quality check results on field: Retrieved liquid water path)
  • temperature (Retrieved absolute temperature)
  • surfacePressure (Surface pressure at instrument)
  • lat (North latitude)
  • equilibriumLevelPres (Equilibrium level pressure)
  • liquidWaterPathRmsError (Expected root-mean-square error in liquid water path retrieval)
  • infraredTemperature (Zenith-pointing infrared temperature at 10um)
  • qc_liftingCondensationLevelPres (Quality check results on field: Lifting condensation level pressure)
  • temperatureRmsError (Expected root-mean-square error in temperature retrieval)
  • qc_relativeHumidity (Quality check results on field: Derived relative humidity)
  • qc_brightnessTemperature (Quality check results on field: Microwave brightness temperature)
  • blackbodyTemperature (Internal blackbody reference temperature)
  • waterVaporDensityRmsError (Expected root-mean-square error in water vapor density retrieval)
  • qc_cape (Quality check results on field: Convective available potential energy)
  • time (Time offset from midnight)
  • liftingCondensationLevelPres (Lifting condensation level pressure)
  • brightnessTemperature (Microwave brightness temperature)
  • qc_liquidWaterContent (Quality check results on field: Retrieved cloud liquid water content)
 
DQR ID: D140606.1    (Back to Top)
Start Date Start Time End Date End Time Data Quality Metric
2014-03-01 00:00:00 2014-04-28 17:38:00 Incorrect
Subject: ENA/MWRP/C1 - Radiometer not calibrated
Affected Datastreams: enamwrpC1.b1
Description The radiometer was not calibrated during this time. Data should be disregarded.
Measurements
  • virtualTemperature (Derived virtual temperature)
  • equilibriumLevel (Equilibrium level)
  • totalPrecipitableWater2 (Retrieved total precipitable water vapor using only 23.835 and 30.0 GHz)
  • temperature (Retrieved absolute temperature)
  • equilibriumLevelPres (Equilibrium level pressure)
  • liquidWaterContent (Retrieved cloud liquid water content)
  • levelFreeConvection (Level of free convection)
  • dewpointTemperature (Derived dewpoint temperature)
  • brightnessTemperature (Microwave brightness temperature)
  • waterVaporMixingRatio (Derived water vapor mixing ratio)
  • levelFreeConvectionPres (Level of free convection pressure)
  • cloudBaseHeight (Derived cloud base height)
  • cape (Convective available potential energy)
  • liquidWaterPath (Retrieved liquid water path)
  • waterVaporDensity (Retrieved water vapor density)
  • liquidWaterPath2 (Retrieved liquid water path using only 23.835 and 30.0 GHz)
  • liftingCondensationLevel (Lifting condensation level)
  • liftingCondensationLevelPres (Lifting condensation level pressure)
  • totalPrecipitableWater (Retrieved total precipitable water vapor)
  • relativeHumidity (Derived relative humidity)
 
DQR ID: D140905.2    (Back to Top)
Start Date Start Time End Date End Time Data Quality Metric
2014-08-20 22:30:00 2014-08-25 13:30:00 Incorrect
Subject: ENA/MWRP/C1 - Incorrect IRT readings
Affected Datastreams: enamwrpC1.b1
Description The infrared temperature readings are higher than those from the IRT and skyrad instruments.
Measurements
  • infraredTemperature (Zenith-pointing infrared temperature at 10um)
 
DQR ID: D150303.6    (Back to Top)
Start Date Start Time End Date End Time Data Quality Metric
2014-04-24 02:00:00 2015-10-08 15:04:00 Suspect
Subject: ENA/MWRP/C1 - Occasional outages of surface T/RH readings
Affected Datastreams: enamwrpC1.b1
Description Occasionally the surface temperature and relative humidity readings are not updated and the measurements appear flat for short times. The primary data are most likely not affected because the surface measurements are flatlined for short intervals when big changes are not expected.
Measurements
  • surfaceRelativeHumidity (Surface relative humidity at instrument)
  • surfacePressure (Surface pressure at instrument)
  • surfaceWaterVaporDensity (Surface water vapor density at instrument)
  • surfaceTemperature (Surface absolute temperature at instrument)
 
DQR ID: D141212.1    (Back to Top)
Start Date Start Time End Date End Time Data Quality Metric
2014-10-29 00:00:00 2014-11-24 15:38:00 Note
Subject: ENA/MWRP/C1 - Reprocessing Notice (RID 1261)
Affected Datastreams: enamwrpC1.b1
Description See below for details of reprocessing that was completed on 20150309. Original DQR category: 3 (Yellow, Suspect). ----------------------------------------------------------- The radiometer's calibration appears unstable. The brightness temperatures are warmer than expected. Data need to be recalibrated.
Measurements
  • brightnessTemperature (Microwave brightness temperature)
  • liquidWaterPath2 (Retrieved liquid water path using only 23.835 and 30.0 GHz)
  • totalPrecipitableWater (Retrieved total precipitable water vapor)
  • totalPrecipitableWater2 (Retrieved total precipitable water vapor using only 23.835 and 30.0 GHz)
  • liquidWaterPath (Retrieved liquid water path)
 
DQR ID: D150826.1    (Back to Top)
Start Date Start Time End Date End Time Data Quality Metric
2015-07-03 00:00:00 2015-07-30 20:18:00 Note
Subject: ENA/MWRP/C1 - Intermittent data
Affected Datastreams: enamwrpC1.b1
Description There are several data gaps in the data due to a change in the radiometer's hardware configuration.
Measurements
  • virtualTemperature (Derived virtual temperature)
  • totalPrecipitableWater2RmsError (Expected root-mean-square error in precipitable water retrieval using only 23.835 and 30.0 GHz)
  • liquidWaterContent (Retrieved cloud liquid water content)
  • levelFreeConvection (Level of free convection)
  • dewpointTemperature (Derived dewpoint temperature)
  • liquidWaterPath2 (Retrieved liquid water path using only 23.835 and 30.0 GHz)
  • liftingCondensationLevel (Lifting condensation level)
  • surfaceWaterVaporDensity (Surface water vapor density at instrument)
  • height (Height)
  • liquidWaterPath2RmsError (Expected root-mean-square error in liquid water path retrieval using only 23.835 and 30.0 GHz)
  • azimuth (Azimuth angle)
  • surfaceRelativeHumidity (Surface relative humidity at instrument)
  • totalPrecipitableWaterRmsError (Expected root-mean-square error in precipitable water retrieval)
  • lon (East longitude)
  • frequency (Frequency)
  • brightnessTemperature (Microwave brightness temperature)
  • base_time (Base time in Epoch)
  • cape (Convective available potential energy)
  • liquidWaterPath (Retrieved liquid water path)
  • time_offset (Time offset from base_time)
  • waterVaporMixingRatio (Derived water vapor mixing ratio)
  • totalPrecipitableWater (Retrieved total precipitable water vapor)
  • relativeHumidity (Derived relative humidity)
  • liquidWaterContentRmsError (Expected root-mean-square error in liquid water content retrieval)
  • equilibriumLevel (Equilibrium level)
  • dataQualityFlags (Data quality flags)
  • totalPrecipitableWater2 (Retrieved total precipitable water vapor using only 23.835 and 30.0 GHz)
  • surfaceTemperature (Surface absolute temperature at instrument)
  • alt (Altitude above mean sea level)
  • levelFreeConvectionPres (Level of free convection pressure)
  • cloudBaseHeight (Derived cloud base height)
  • waterVaporDensity (Retrieved water vapor density)
  • elevation (Elevation angle)
  • pressure (Derived pressure)
  • wetWindowFlag (Flag indicating moisture sensor status)
  • temperature (Retrieved absolute temperature)
  • surfacePressure (Surface pressure at instrument)
  • equilibriumLevelPres (Equilibrium level pressure)
  • lat (North latitude)
  • liquidWaterPathRmsError (Expected root-mean-square error in liquid water path retrieval)
  • infraredTemperature (Zenith-pointing infrared temperature at 10um)
  • temperatureRmsError (Expected root-mean-square error in temperature retrieval)
  • blackbodyTemperature (Internal blackbody reference temperature)
  • waterVaporDensityRmsError (Expected root-mean-square error in water vapor density retrieval)
  • liftingCondensationLevelPres (Lifting condensation level pressure)
  • time (Time offset from midnight)
 
DQR ID: D150219.2    (Back to Top)
Start Date Start Time End Date End Time Data Quality Metric
2014-02-26 00:00:00 2015-10-08 16:00:00 Incorrect
Subject: ENA/MWRP/C1 - Reprocess: Calibration drift
Affected Datastreams: enamwrpC1.b1
Description The data are incorrect mostly because of fast drift in the calibration. Brightness temperatures become negative after 9/7/2015.
Measurements
  • liquidWaterPath2 (Retrieved liquid water path using only 23.835 and 30.0 GHz)
  • totalPrecipitableWater2 (Retrieved total precipitable water vapor using only 23.835 and 30.0 GHz)
  • brightnessTemperature (Microwave brightness temperature)
  • liquidWaterPath (Retrieved liquid water path)
  • waterVaporDensity (Retrieved water vapor density)
  • waterVaporMixingRatio (Derived water vapor mixing ratio)
  • totalPrecipitableWater (Retrieved total precipitable water vapor)
  • relativeHumidity (Derived relative humidity)
 
DQR ID: D170413.1    (Back to Top)
Start Date Start Time End Date End Time Data Quality Metric
2017-03-24 10:35:00 2017-04-21 14:59:59 Incorrect
Subject: ENA/MWRP/C1 - Possible recalibration needed
Affected Datastreams: enamwrpC1.b1
Description The data appear to have incorrect calibration
Measurements
  • virtualTemperature (Derived virtual temperature)
  • equilibriumLevel (Equilibrium level)
  • liquidWaterPath2 (Retrieved liquid water path using only 23.835 and 30.0 GHz)
  • totalPrecipitableWater2 (Retrieved total precipitable water vapor using only 23.835 and 30.0 GHz)
  • temperature (Retrieved absolute temperature)
  • equilibriumLevelPres (Equilibrium level pressure)
  • levelFreeConvection (Level of free convection)
  • liquidWaterContent (Retrieved cloud liquid water content)
  • dewpointTemperature (Derived dewpoint temperature)
  • levelFreeConvectionPres (Level of free convection pressure)
  • cloudBaseHeight (Derived cloud base height)
  • liquidWaterPath (Retrieved liquid water path)
  • waterVaporDensity (Retrieved water vapor density)
  • waterVaporMixingRatio (Derived water vapor mixing ratio)
  • liftingCondensationLevel (Lifting condensation level)
  • liftingCondensationLevelPres (Lifting condensation level pressure)
  • totalPrecipitableWater (Retrieved total precipitable water vapor)
  • relativeHumidity (Derived relative humidity)