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

[Fred LaPlante]

I too do not accept html email.  And I like the suggestion in the 2nd paragraph 
below.  Lets keep the info brief but still have access to the detail if wanted. 
Also an explanation of the message is needed, but certainly can be maintained at 
a link.  No need to see it all every day, just to be able to find it.

Fred 
-- 
flaplante at flos-inc.com on 4/8/2005
 

 On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 23:47:36 -0400, Mojito Jones wrote:
> I'd appreciate it if you would keep the text format as a option.
> Html is for web pages.  Text is for email messages.  Personally I
> force all incoming messages to text to strip html from my incoming
> messages.
>
> As an alternative, if you need the extra room, you might consider
> eliminating all but the summary line and link on the email and put
> the error messages on the  station's status page.
>
> K
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: wxqc-bounces at lists.gladstonefamily.net
>> [mailto:wxqc-bounces at lists.gladstonefamily.net] On Behalf Of
>> Philip Gladstone Sent: 07 April 2005 22:23 To: Discussion of data
>> quality issues
>> Subject: Re: [wxqc] Re: Weather data quality report for 2005-04-04
>>
>> 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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>>>
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>>
>> --
>> Philip Gladstone
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