[wxqc] Re: Weather data quality report for 2005-04-04

[Philip Gladstone]

Alan,

thanks for this suggestion. I'm trying to rework the emails to make them 
more useful. I have added a way to get them in HTML -- the formatting is 
(somewhat) better there, and I think that most people can now handle 
HTML. In particular, it removes the 72 column limitation that I had before.

I'm looking at incorporating your text......

stay tuned

Philip



Alan Batie wrote:

> Weather Quality wrote:
>
>>    DATE     UTC      SITE  *   ALT    * POT TEMP *  DEW PNT *    
>> DD    *    FF                               *   (MB)   *  (DEG F) *  
>> (DEG F) *   (DEG)  *   (KNT)  04-APR-2005 Errs    CW2408 *          
>> *   1/85   *          *   0/85   *   0/85  
>> Note that times are in UTC. The values displayed are  'Observed (error)'
>> The error value is 'analysis - observed'.
>
>
> Could someone fix this script so the description matches the actual 
> output: there is nothing in a format of "xxx (yyy)", nor "xxx - yyy" 
> (though I think that is an arithmetic statement, not a format).  If I 
> remember right, what this is really saying is that there was 1 error 
> out of 85 reports in the Pot Temp today and no other errors?
>
> Actually, as I look through several of these, how about this to 
> replace that first paragraph:
>
> Explanation:
>
> Date: Date of the report.
> UTC:  Universal Coordinated Time (Greenwich Mean Time) of the
>       observation.  See below if the value is a word instead of
>       a time - these entries are special entries with summary
>       information.
> Site: Station id of the reporting weather station.
> Alt:  Barometer data in millibars.
> Pot Temp: Temperature in degrees Fahrenheit
> Dew Pnt: Dew point data in degrees Fahrenheit
> DD:   Wind direction in degrees (0=North, 90=East, 180=South, 270=West)
> FF:   Wind speed in knots
>
> For normal timestamped entries, the values are in the format of 
> "Observed value(estimated error value)".  The estimated error value is 
> computed by subtracting the reported value from a value determined 
> from statistical analysis of surrounding stations, thus if the 
> reported value is higher than the analysis value, the error value will 
> be negative.
>
> If the value in the UTC column is a word, then it is a summary report:
>
> Smry: statistical summary for the day
> Week: statistical summary for the week
> Mnth: statistical summary for the month
>
> In these cases, the report data is in the format "Mean(Standard 
> Deviation)" over the specified period.
>
> Errs: An error count, in the format "# errors/#reports received"
>       If this occurs by itself, it is a report for the date listed.
>       If it occurs with a statistical summary report, then it is the
>       count of errors for the specified summary period.
>
> Graphs:
> ...
>
> Also, in the last report, the Graphs link didn't have the site value, 
> fwiw..
>
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