[wxqc] Perceived Data Errors

[dshelms at comcast.net]

Hi Paul,

The MADIS QCMS statistics are not primarily intented for doing QC on individual observations.  As you not, there are occassional "false positive" flags as the buddy and temporal continuity checks will not identify small scale and/or rapidly changing weather events, as you noted.

We encourage folks to look at their statistical trends over weeks and months rather than hours and days.  In other words, don't worry about the little (short term) stuff and the trend is your friend as they say in the weather biz.

Dave
CW0351



> I received my email yesterday with the quality report/errors for my site 
> and all the gross errors reported were as a result of an isolated storm 
> (0.17" in 15 minutes) that fell over about 3 sq. mi. causing the 
> temperature to drop 12 deg and RH to increase as well.
> 
> Is there any way for the quality audits to account for rain induced 
> variances in the readings?
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