[wxqc] Understanding the Quality Report

[Philip Gladstone]

This does indeed look like a problem. I was trying to be 'clever' and 
combine all the emails for one person into a single message, but it 
doesn't seem to work quite right.

I'll take a look at it over the weekend.

Philip

John James wrote:
> I have two weather stations, and I oftentimes seem to get an analysis 
> report that has the characteristics below:  there are errors reported in 
> the summary, but the lines in question don't show up; I get a summary 
> for one station but not the other; I get errors for one station but not 
> the other. Things don't seem to report consistently. Actually, this is 
> the first time I've had this few errors, but I'm used to having the 
> report just not be consistent. I think there is something odd about the 
> logic trying to gather report data for both stations and report them 
> both in one mail message. Does that make sense?
> 
> //John
> 
>> Date: 2 Nov 2006 02:21:49 -0000
>> From: Weather Quality <weather-qc at nospam.gladstonefamily.net>
>> To: jjames at jameshillfarm.com
>> Subject: Weather data quality report for 2006-11-01
>> User-agent: Automated weather quality control sender: 
>> http://weather.gladstonefamily.net <http://weather.gladstonefamily.net/>
>>
>> DateUTCSITEAlt (mb)Temp °FDewPt °FWind DirSpeed knts
>> 01-NOV-2006Errs CW4661 0/86 0/86 1/86 0/86 0/86
>> 01-NOV-2006Errs CW4663 0/87 1/87 0/87 0/87 0/87
>> 01-NOV-2006Smry CW4663+0.20.43+12.17-32.17-32126+0.40.6
>>
>> Note that times are in UTC. The values displayed are 'Observed Error' 
>> The error value is 'analysis - observed'. I.e. if your observed value 
>> is higher than the computed value, then the error will be negative. 
>> The error readings are listed in *bold*. The row with the time of 
>> 'Smry' is a daily summary and the data is 'mean standard-deviation' 
>> for each observation during that day. The 'Errs' row contains the 
>> number of samples in error / the number of samples (as seen by MADIS). 
>> This may indicate more observations that are shown above. This is due 
>> to the differing limits used by this reporting program and the MADIS 
>> program itself.
>>
>> For more information:
>>
>>     * Daily graph
>>       <http://weather.gladstonefamily.net/qchart/C4663,C4661?date=20061102>.
>>
>>     * Quality checking information <http://www.wxqa.com>.
>>     * WXQC Mailing list
>>       <http://weather.gladstonefamily.net/mailman/listinfo/wxqc>. 
>>
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> 
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