[wxqc] Weird Summary contained in daily report

[Bob Johnson]

Thanks for the clarification Philip and no problem, I just wanted to
be sure I hadn't all of a sudden started reporting really, really,
REALLY  bad data LOL

Good luck on the worldwide project, I am lucky enough to try and keep
track of my backyard.. ;)

-Bob

On 3/5/06, Gerry Creager N5JXS <gerry.creager at tamu.edu> wrote:
> Two things.
>
> 1.  I'm trying to stop travelling long enough to work with MADIS folk to
> get CWOP data to them every 5 minutes.  Patty and I talked at the AMS
> meeting specifically about this.  It may require importing all METAR and
> MADIS data and doing the CWOP QC MADIS is performing now, at TAMU.  The
> decision resides with Patty and her folks, though.  She was concerned
> about processing capacity.
>
> 2.  Although the 168 hr per week problem is causing a few problems, I
> would be interested in working with you on worldwide QC analysis.
>
> gerry
>
> Philip Gladstone wrote:
> > Bob
> >
> > This was my fault. I have been working on importing more data into my
> > system over the last few days, and the bad summary was generated as a
> > result of this.
> >
> > In particular, I now import worldwide METAR data and worldwide CWOP
> > data, though for data outside the US, there is no analysis performed.
> >
> > The root cause of the problem was that when I imported the CWOP data,
> > for those stations that reported more than once per 15 minutes, I saw
> > different data records than the ones that MADIS say. This meant that
> > when the emails were generated, the summary covered both MADIS records
> > (which had good error fields) and direct CWOP records (which had 99999
> > as a marker for unknown error). This also explains why the number of
> > samples for the day has gone up from 96 (4 times per hour) to 172 (in my
> > case). Hopefully, tomorrow, things will be back to normal.
> >
> > Does anybody fancy trying to do worldwide QC?
> >
> > Philip
> >
> > Bob Johnson wrote:
> >
> >> I received the following last night and am at loss to understand...
> >>
> >> Weather data quality report for 2006-03-04
> >> DATE     UTC      SITE  *   ALT    * POT TEMP *  DEW PNT *    DD
> >> *    FF
> >>                           *   (MB)   *  (DEG F) *  (DEG F) *   (DEG)
> >> *   (KNT)
> >> 04-MAR-2006 Errs    CW2703 *   3/101  *   0/101  *   0/101  *   0/101
> >> *   0/101
> >> 04-MAR-2006 Smry    CW2703
> >> *25741.(43721.)*25742.(43721.)*25742.(43720.)*25720.(43734.)*25743.(43720.)
> >>
> >>
> >> Anyone help interpreting this one?
> >>
> >>
> >
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